Re:The KDE community is moving to GitLab
by beisner on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:08PM
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Git is a version control system, whereas Gitlab/Github are source-code hosting applications. You use git to interact with Gitlab/Github.
Without going too in-depth, they allow teams to set up accounts on a central website, where team members can contribute to that central git repository. There are also other project-management features baked into the tool (code review, issue tracking, etc).
Of course, this can all be done using a bare git server running on some publicly-available computer, but they offer nice UIs and very friendly onboarding so that makes them attractive for teams.
Without going too in-depth, they allow teams to set up accounts on a central website, where team members can contribute to that central git repository. There are also other project-management features baked into the tool (code review, issue tracking, etc).
Of course, this can all be done using a bare git server running on some publicly-available computer, but they offer nice UIs and very friendly onboarding so that makes them attractive for teams.