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Re:Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Pla... by idlecool on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:05PM (#21000969)
I don't know of anyone who uses Gitlab. We use Github at work, and I know several people who use Github at work. In terms of features, I can't think of anything that Github doesn't support. If something is missing, you can always find tools/services that integrate with Github.

That said, I am quite surprized that Gitlab is growing so fast. I would be curious to know what is the source of most of their revenue. Are they targeting a specific cohort of users, which Github is not able to?

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Re:Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Pla... by frenchy on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:13PM (#21001900)
That's the problem with these monocultures. People just assume that "well, everyone uses it, so it must be the best/have all the features".

As for what Gitlab has that Gitlab doesn't:

* Built-in CI/CD that's actually pretty decent (easy to configure, you can restart subtasks, you can use your own runners)

* An issue tracker that supports estimates & time tracking. There are "solutions" for github that work with external services, but they cost money, and have strange workflows.

* The ability to self-host without huge piles of money.

* A lot of features that I'm not currently interested in, but others would be, like k8s and serverless support.

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Re:Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Pla... by Ayesh on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:45PM (#21002227)
One feature that probably doesn't get enough praise is the groups. You can create groups, and nested sub groups within. This helps us a lot to separate projects into smaller groups. Sub groups inherit access and keys from their parent and ancestors.
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