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>DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

Yeah, just had a call with them and they confirmed that for only VCS its not feasible to use their platform.

What are people migrating to? I am looking at bitbucket again I guess.

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Bibucket's code review tools are really bad.

As usual for Atlassian products, every click takes 1-2 seconds.

Finding comments requires manually scrolling. There is a filter function, but it takes some time to load. And even then, there's no way to sort comments chronologically. As a result, we would be constantly missing responses if it wasn't for the email notifications.

If a correction is made through force-push, you'll have no idea what was changed compared to the replaced commit.

The phone interface is unusable. On iPad, scrolling unintentionally adds comments.

There is a VSCode Plugin which is slightly better, but even there we frequently miss comments or changes.

Brought down the repo at an airline when I included an emoji in a commit message.

I would probably look back at github (or gitea if self-hosted and you're looking for simplicity), bitbucket is a pile of features that almost work, but you're constantly reminded that you've seem better.

Commit control after PR decline/merge is one of them for me.

I have been following OneDev and seems like it is going to be a good contender.

https://github.com/theonedev/onedev

I work at GitLab, but curious what your use case is for just VCS? I assume your company has other solutions for the software lifecycle that you are happy with?

Depending on the size of your org, If it's small GitLab CE is free and can readily handle VCS no problem, you won't have a support contract though.

I am in charge of reporting, business intelligence and DE. We use VCS to have all our SQL transformations stored there.

Like that all the business users interested can see whats happening in background and we have things version controlled.

For rest of the features we don't have use case and our "proper IT" is using github instead, but there you have to pay per seat in org. as I heard

explaining it now, for business users we would achieve the same if they had access to sharepoint folder with the code + syntax highlighting.

But I also believe its beneficial to educate the user about VCS as side objective.

If the business users never need to write, just read, then you could set the projects to public (if your instance is in a private network) and then people can have vis, and you don't need seats for those who aren't writing. I think both products support this as an option.

We ran into the same issue using dbt. Unfortunately it is just not cost-effective to pay for full GitLab licenses for BI users that occasionally tweak SQL queries and don’t leverage any other GitLab features.

> use case is for just VCS

Ye, just VCS. Nothing else.

Why do you ask? I don’t build my code/text. Hell I don’t even want to ever compile it. I like making code/text changes and play push and pull and sometimes merge. And reviews, don’t forget them. I’ve some peers who also like that. Maybe we do it just for the kicks. Maybe it pays as well. We want to do all of this on an excellent git platform with a fantastic intuitive UI; and we definitely want to pay for it. Just give us a solid VCS. What about that?

What do you mean? Do they just not offer a plan that is cost effective for a source control only use case? I currently use their source control and CI features, and that's it. No issues.

There is free tier that will have limit of 5 users in June.

The Free tier of GitLab SaaS will have a limit of 5 users per namespace beginning June 22, 2022

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...

Self-managed GitLab won't have this user limit. You can run GitLab EE without a license (which is the Free tier then), or GitLab CE (only open source components), on a cloud VM via Omnibus package installation or in Docker containers, in a Kubernetes cluster, or on a Raspberry Pi.

https://about.gitlab.com/install/

Gitolite is open source and really easy to self host if you only need VCS.

I haven’t used it but I think sr.ht might match your needs.

If you’re not happy with Gitlab, the last thing you want is anything by Atlassian.

Depending on if your arch is supported, pipelines on bitbucket is pretty cool.

I've been seeing codeberg.org more and more recently

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