Ask HN: GitHub or Gitlab
Migrating from an existing Git provider, curious what other folks have to say.
We're a building a SaaS app with no open source components at the moment.
We're a building a SaaS app with no open source components at the moment.
First impression is that it's a great package. The only downside for us is that we have a lot of legacy baggage, mostly rather opinionated build tools set up the way we liked it. Getting that to work with GitLab, which itself has a very opinionated view of the CI/CD pipeline is a bit of effort. But for a greenfield project I would go with GitLab in a second!
GitLab is a "batteries included" kind of tool. They've put together a lot of excellent stuff and integrated different tools very well together. For example, we need to perform security scans on our code and artifacts and GitLab offers that with minimal effort and awesome integrations into your pull request (which they call merge requests) mechanism.
Some may not like their approach, especially if they already have something that doesn't quite fit. But if you're starting from scratch, you really should give them a chance. They really know what they're doing ;-)
On GitLab CE, you don't have the possibility to see the history of edited comments.
Indeed, if you need to manage a community or even to simply have full traceability, this is an important feature that is missing.
Furthermore, the ability to approve an MR is something that I miss using GitLab.
I wanted to share the following issues [1] & [2] with you and everyone else since the features you've mentioned are already being discussed. Feel free to leave your thoughts in there:
1 - A proposal to move MR Approvals to CE https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42096
2 - Full history of edited comments https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3706