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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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