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I work at GitLab, but curious what your use case is for just VCS? I assume your company has other solutions for the software lifecycle that you are happy with?

• i_like_waiting 5y ago
  I am in charge of reporting, business intelligence and DE. We use VCS to have all our SQL transformations stored there. Like that all the business users interested can see whats happening in background and we have things version controlled. For rest of the features we don't have use case and our "proper IT" is using github instead, but there you have to pay per seat in org. as I heard
  • i_like_waiting 5y ago
    explaining it now, for business users we would achieve the same if they had access to sharepoint folder with the code + syntax highlighting. But I also believe its beneficial to educate the user about VCS as side objective.
  • lbotos 5y ago
    If the business users never need to write, just read, then you could set the projects to public (if your instance is in a private network) and then people can have vis, and you don't need seats for those who aren't writing. I think both products support this as an option.
    • geepdb 4y ago
      We ran into the same issue using dbt. Unfortunately it is just not cost-effective to pay for full GitLab licenses for BI users that occasionally tweak SQL queries and don’t leverage any other GitLab features.
• crossroadsguy 4y ago
  > use case is for just VCS Ye, just VCS. Nothing else. Why do you ask? I don’t build my code/text. Hell I don’t even want to ever compile it. I like making code/text changes and play push and pull and sometimes merge. And reviews, don’t forget them. I’ve some peers who also like that. Maybe we do it just for the kicks. Maybe it pays as well. We want to do all of this on an excellent git platform with a fantastic intuitive UI; and we definitely want to pay for it. Just give us a solid VCS. What about that?