Ask HN: GitLab vs GitHub

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In the company I work for we're considering using a self hosted GitLab for our repos. At the moment we are fully GitHub.

We're planning on deploying GitLab on an in-house, Ansible deployed OpenStack. In terms of day to day use does anyone have any experience or insight they'd like to share beyond the initial investigations we have carried out?

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My org is in your situation. We are slowly migrating to GitLab. It is definitely buggier (For a while using repos with certain names like "notes" would cause 404 errors) but it makes up for that in price. A GitHub enterprise license is too expensive for the benefit we got out of it. GitLab is buggier, but being free made up for that.

If you are not particular about Git, you may take a look at http://rhodecode.org/ as well (uses mercurial).

This looks interesting. The only problem is that we have about 20 projects on GitHub at the moment so it's easier sticking with something Git based. Thanks though.

RhodeCode started as a Mercurial tool but it now also support Git.

http://pythonhosted.org/RhodeCode/usage/git_support.html

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