Hi Panzerboy. We understand the desire to have this in CE but this is one of the few features that is requested by a lot of large organizations and not many small ones. Of course we understand that smaller organizations and individuals like you would like it too. But there has to be extra value in GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE). We have to make hard decisions about what is EE only and we currently have no plans to port this to CE. As a workaround you can setup a separate git-annex server. It will be more work to setup, add the remotes, and you don't have the access control that the GitLab integration brings. But if you're a single user you might be able to live without the access control.