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Thanks for mentioning GitLab this_user. I would be happy to answer any questions about GitLab.

Just a quick question: why are the git-annex and branch protection available only in EE SKU?

Branch protection is also available in the open source GitLab CE. We made git-annex an enterprise feature because it is one of the few things that came up more from larger organizations, smaller ones tend to use a shared Dropbox.

Oops, sorry for confusion, I've meant to ask about the Rebase merge requests before merge feature, not branch protection.

We're pretty comfortable with rebase before merge being part of EE only. Someone suggested making an option to select the type of merge you want (ff, no-ff, log, rebase or squash). If someone would submit a good implementation of that and reference this comment we can open source everything. Edit: removed the work probably to make this a firm promise.

Anecdote: I am an independent game developer who views git-annex as unproven, but who would also love to get away from Perforce. However, Perforce is free for up to 20 users, and right now my side project has one other person working on it - $400 for a year of GitLab is a non-starter.

More generally, I am curious how many of the "larger organizations" to which you refer in this context (clients interested in git-annex) are in the games industry, and how seriously interested your company is in trying to cater to that industry's needs? (Lots of game engines enjoy built-in first class support for Perforce due to how established it is in that vertical.)

Some of the larger organizations interested in git-annex in GitLab are in the game industry but most are not.

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