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13 points by nullish ↗ HN
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.

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stockkid
I have been enjoying Gitlab's built-in continuous integration service. If your app does not already use something else for continuous integration, it might be worthwhile to try out.
davchana
@GitLab Way too cool than GH, no need for separate special branch for html publishing, free private repos.
makison
Github offers free private repos as well
mikanbu
GitLab is great but I believe it depends on the need of the project, here are a few examples of the things that might an issue

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.

stfs
GitLab has the ability to require merge requests
mikanbu
The ability to require, not to approve if I'm not mistaken.
mothsonasloth
Gitlab all the way, as others have mentioned the CI pipeline is easy to setup. Another feature which is great is the Docker registry at the repository level.
stfs
We currently use Bitbucket (do not recommend) and we're evaluating GitLab.

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 ;-)

dsumenkovic
GitLab Community Advocate here. Thanks for the feedback, I am happy to hear that you like our product. Since you are still evaulating GitLab, please let me know if you need any assistance or help regarding other features.
stfs
Thanks. Your support department has been quite active in responding to the issues I've had. But thanks for reaching out :)