What was lacking? The GUI on Gitlab is phenomenal imo.

On gitlab,repository and code searching function should be improved loll

Same could be said for github. I regularly literally copy and paste a variable name from a file on Github itself - paste it into the search, and it finds 0 results.

HOW COULD YOU FIND NOTHING?! Not even the file I copied it from? A simple grep search would've had no issue and would've been faster!

Yeah, I always end up having to clone the repo to grep.

- sr.ht (OSS, managed, self-hosting)

- Gitlab (sorta OSS, managed, self-hosting)

- Gitea (OSS, self-hosting)

- Gogs (OSS, self-hosting)

- Bitbucket (managed)

- Azure Repos (managed)

- Google Cloud Repositories (managed)

To be honest, Gitlab has come a long way. And things like search that people point out doesn't work well on Github either, where code search is super broken and often skips results or find nothing where a git grep would drown you in results.

This. The UI is quite primitive compared to GitHub IMHO. That and Gitlab is littered with half-implemented or poorly implemented workflows. The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through.

Hi, GitLab employee, is there anything else (besides the MR workflow) specifically that you think we should improve? UI-wise or whatever else you've noticed

> The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through.

Uh, I've been using this for quite some time in GitLab and never found it lacking. Curious what do you find missing there?

Bitbucket is pretty good

Bitbucket suffers from all the usual problems of an Atlassian-product: A badly designed user-interface, and frequent stability/downtime problems.

Problem 1 with Atlassian is they're using Java.

Problem 2 with Atlassian is that their portfolio is entirely made up out of stuff they bought up over years, with wildly different coding and UI/UX standards/history.