Also , even though I share you sentiments on Windows, adding: "Gitlab does not run on Windows and we have no plans of making Gitlab compatible." AFAICS Gitlab

Also , even though I share you sentiments on Windows, adding: "Gitlab does not run on Windows and we have no plans of making Gitlab compatible." AFAICS Gitlab is server software. You can run whatever you want on your dev machine. I assume you didn't mean you want to run your own GitLab server on each dev machine, I don't see how that would make sense.