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  • #21
    Originally posted by brrrrttttt View Post
    Only if you consider your time worthless. I use GitHub for so many things I have no problem paying them a few dollars per month, with the bonus that I don't have to bother administering my own git server.
    Seems like you are not aware that you are not forced to self-host GitLab (just as you are not forced to self-host GitHub).
    You should probably at leasts visit the gitlab website before criticizing the product.

    I prefer GitLab but the projects I'm currently working on is on GitHub, pushing for a switch on those projects wouldn't be worth my time so I guess I'll be stuck with GitHub for a while longer.

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    • #22
      In the summarized words of Gabe Newell this change follows suits with efforts to remove as many barriers as possible.

      Breaking down the wall and making it easier for people to join the discussion, collaborate and easily request pull requests is so much win.

      Smart move.

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      • #23
        Originally posted by ElectricPrism View Post
        In the summarized words of Gabe Newell this change follows suits with efforts to remove as many barriers as possible.

        Breaking down the wall and making it easier for people to join the discussion, collaborate and easily request pull requests is so much win.

        Smart move.
        Where did Gaben said this?

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        • #24
          Originally posted by Awesomeness View Post
          But Google's cloud isn't free, so WTF. Might as well move everything to Github. At least the developer base is there.
          Who cares about the hosting provider for their gitlab application/site? They are just providing the infrastructure, you can migrate all your stuff over to other infrastructure whenever you want.

          Github is a website/application itself, you have no control over it.

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          • #25
            One thing I liked in Freedesktop's repo is being able to skim to a particular time-range of commits by manipulating the URL. I doesn't see how it's possible in Gitlab. E.g. here's a log for a random file of a random project. The history works by simply scrolling down. So, if there's a bunch of activity, and I want to see, say, commits for January 2014, I've gotta scroll a lot, like, it's easier to just git-clone whole project locally, than to use the UI.

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            • #26
              Originally posted by Hi-Angel View Post
              One thing I liked in Freedesktop's repo is being able to skim to a particular time-range of commits by manipulating the URL. I doesn't see how it's possible in Gitlab. E.g. here's a log for a random file of a random project. The history works by simply scrolling down. So, if there's a bunch of activity, and I want to see, say, commits for January 2014, I've gotta scroll a lot, like, it's easier to just git-clone whole project locally, than to use the UI.
              That's indeed highly annoying. When I do manual bisection I do kind of the same thing with projects on github, pick the left and right pages I care for and move from there till I have the final page. With this, it seems impossible.

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              • #27
                Originally posted by seijikun View Post

                A bit condensed (and just my opinion, obviously):
                I like that GitLab is open-source, of course. And it's cool that it has that many features - but in the UI, they seem to have their priorities a bit wrong.
                For example the page of a repository (Project / Details) if you own the project, is bombarding you with things you can do that are all related to one-time setups. And that's displayed above what you actually care about most of the times (Either files, the Readme, or Commits).
                Like this, they are using big buttons to promote the possibility to add a Kubernetes cluster, even though the amount of people that will actually use this is ... small?
                Whereas the "buttons" that lead you to a commit or branch listings consist of mere, tiny links whose only eye-catcher is that they are underlined.
                They are blending in so much stuff on this page above what is actually interesting, that I have to scroll to even see the files on my notebook.

                There is so much text on the page and so much "look here!", that most of the time, I sit in front of the display - searching for stuff. I should maybe add, that I'm completely new to GitLab after having become used to the clean UI of GitHub and Gitea (which I'm using privately). Unimportant stuff, or stuff that is not relevant for most people is hidden behind a setup symbol, improving the look and feel for most people and speeding up workflows. But that's just my two cents.

                Something that is only related to the publicly hosted GitLab instance is, that it seems to be quite unstable. Lost databases, crashed databases. I often had to wait 30 seconds until a push completes. But that might be due to a recent outage that just happend after I joined.
                Yeah, I agree with most of this. GitLab should frankly be more similar to Github in the important ways.

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                  Who cares about the hosting provider for their gitlab application/site?
                  Everyone that cares about privacy and decentralisation of power and who understand that Google is a threat to both.

                  If FreeDesktop.org maintain control of their domain names they can at least conveniently switch away in the future if need be (unlike @gmail.com email users), but it's a shame they setup shop with this company in the first place.

                  There are almost always decent non-Google alternatives out there.

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by cybertraveler View Post
                    Everyone that cares about privacy and decentralisation of power and who understand that Google is a threat to both.
                    Google respects more your privacy than most others in the same businness, just saying.

                    If FreeDesktop.org maintain control of their domain names they can at least conveniently switch away in the future if need be (unlike @gmail.com email users), but it's a shame they setup shop with this company in the first place.
                    Why would they give up control of the domain name? They are setting up an "instance" (a VM), which would work the same as a physical server.

                    There are almost always decent non-Google alternatives out there.
                    Digitalocean is what I would choose (sponsor of OpenWrt project, they have "donated" the VM the main openwrt site/wiki runs on).

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by Hi-Angel View Post
                      One thing I liked in Freedesktop's repo is being able to skim to a particular time-range of commits by manipulating the URL. I doesn't see how it's possible in Gitlab. E.g. here's a log for a random file of a random project. The history works by simply scrolling down. So, if there's a bunch of activity, and I want to see, say, commits for January 2014, I've gotta scroll a lot, like, it's easier to just git-clone whole project locally, than to use the UI.
                      There might be some other front end for it (I'm not a gitlab expert) but there is an API.

                      Documentation for the REST API for Git commits in GitLab.

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