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FWIW, I recently transferred my side project from bitbucket to gitlab and I'm really happy with it. The issue tracker is significantly better, and the built in CI seems great but I haven't started using it yet since I already have codeship going.

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I did the same last month and then transferred back to bitbucket.

The response time on gitlab.com was painfully slow. That extra 2-3 seconds waits for each commit was enough to drive me back. I still use github for professional projects and bitbucket for personal ones.

I can imagine that GitLab.com was too slow. We just (two days ago) added another storage, where new repositories are created. That should be faster.

I hope you're willing to give GitLab another try when we've improved the performance of GitLab.com or by hosting it yourself.

Follow our work on GitLab.com performance here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59

I had the same experience. The other thing I would add is that the social side of Gitlab is not as refined as GitHub's. There's no "timeline," for example.

I pay for GitHub and enjoy it.

On the other hand, gitlab's "network" view of commit branches is excellent and I've never been able to find anything remotely similar on Github. Essential to manage development in multiple concurrent branches.

Isn't that just gitk[1] or tig[2] (my favorite)?

[1] comes with git, screenshot: http://static.lwn.net/images/ns/kernel/gitk.png

[2] http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

It's similar, but gitlab's graph has a much more readable and sensible 2d layout. The way tig and gitk line up/layout the branches is often very confusing. Gitlab makes it much clearer where the branch lines go, while tig/gitk seem to left-align everything as much as possible, making the lines twist and turn and difficult to trace.

By "timeline" do you mean the GitHub activity feed on the home page when you're logged in?

We have an Activity feed which you can set as your homepage if you'd like, though maybe it's missing features you'd like?

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