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0 pointssytse9y ago0 comments

I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

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LyndsySimon9y ago· 3 in thread

First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default.

I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way.

StavrosK9y ago

GitHub has that too, I noticed the other day. I still think Gitlab is much better, and use it by default for everything new, but fair's fair :P

I love the integrated CI, though, and the use cases it enables. I love that I can just make a pipeline that lints, tests and compiles my code and then, if all of those pass, ends with deploying it to production.

There are many more Gitlab features I like a lot, and the fact that they're all integrated is icing on the cake.

BinaryIdiot9y ago

It took forever for GitHub to get protected branches. It was quite frustrating. Glad they finally have it though.

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sytseOP9y ago

Cool, thanks for that. As others noted GitHub recently also introduced protected branches. As for CI pipeline we got some great multiproject functionality coming in a few months https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25...

moosingin3space9y ago· 2 in thread

The biggest thing I think would encourage more projects to move is improving discoverability. On Github, I can very easily search for new projects to contribute to, and their Explore page [1] is very nice. Gitlab's, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a way to browse by category like Github.

For everything else, I like Gitlab a lot -- it seems to have the best integration of tools of any code host.

[1]: https://github.com/explore

sudoscript9y ago

I completely agree. Actually, I think Github could do a better job with discovery too. The Explore page is a decent start, but why don't I get personalized recommendations for new projects?

moosingin3space9y ago

Yes, that would be nice -- look at the languages my code is written in or the categories my code is, it makes sense to suggest new projects based on that.

slackersc9y ago

I recently setup a small personal project on Gitlab as well. I've been very impressed. I was able to setup a private repo, with a CI setup that builds my code and runs my tests every time i push a commit.. all on their servers. For free.

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