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not sure where you are coming from. did you know that gitlab is vastly more open source than github?

Ironically, I think Gitlab's popularity comes from the fact that it allowed free private repos, gaining more popularity in "closed source" teams. (At least, that's why I first used Gitlab)

We have community edition deployed to AWS which is pretty neat. Not only do we have private repos, but the entire deployment is private and behind a firewall. Github would require you to sign up for an enterprise hosted account and pay +$$$s. For the project we have at work that would be a hard, hard sell - without Gitlab we'd be a bit screwed for modern Git workflow with easy code reviews and all the other great stuff Github pioneered.

There are plenty of reasons why people are picking GitLab. You can read more about it here https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/19/git-wars-switching-to-gi....

However, that's an old blog-post, today GitLab is the only single product for the complete DevOps lifecycle. Here you can find out more references about GitLab DevOps https://about.gitlab.com/devops/.

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