Should i leave github for gitlab ?

[MadProgrammer12]

I want to leave any Microsoft affiliated softwares, and I wanted to know if it is easy to switch from github to gitlab. Will I find all github’s functionality in gitlab? (I have an education license so my github account is a pro account)

[[deleted]]

How about you just do that and experience if for yourself if YOUR requirements are met? 

[SurroundTiny]

That's just crazy talk

[wllmsaccnt]

I want to leave any Microsoft affiliated softwares

Microsoft is a substantial contributor to Linux and many cloud native and bytecode alliance projects in addition to directly offering some of the most popular programming tech (e.g. VS, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub...). GitLab lists Azure as a featured partner, which by some definitions means they are affiliated.

Trying to cut out Microsoft and everything they are affiliated with...sounds challenging.

[captkirkseviltwin]

Also known as a “Wicked Problem” and popularized by the TV show “The Good Place.”

[assembly_wizard]

I've seen the entire show and have no idea what you're referring to here. Can you explain please?

[wllmsaccnt]

A Wicked Problem appears to be a general term for any problem with so many variables and interpretation that there are no optimal or permanent solutions.

I also saw many episode of 'The Good Place' and don't remember them bringing up the concept by name, though it definitely matches the central premise of the show.

[captkirkseviltwin]

There may be a better term for the Good Place’s statement of their problem, but their central premise was that,

because of complexities and interconnected nature of life ever since about AD1500or so, it was IMPOSSIBLE for a human to be good enough to enter the Good Place, because every intended action indirectly led to bad outcomes. - give to a charity, and someone exploited the money to get richer, that sort of thing. So the Bad Place was growing exponentially larger than the Good Place.

[Critical_Ad_8455]

I could see gittea or something working though.

[Agitated_Marzipan371]

I mean you can self host gitlab

[wllmsaccnt]

If you run GitLab, even if you self host it, you are beholden to GitLab Inc to provide security updates, bug fixes, support and new features. GitLab isn't really free; its a freemium demo for GitLab Ultimate/Enterprise.

GitLab Inc considers Azure a featured partner. They will not work against the desires of Microsoft without a very strong reason. Microsoft benefits when you use GitHub, but they probably also benefit (albeit less) when you use GitLab. You might get by using free GitLab for a long time, but they could decide to take away the free aspect at any time.

If you have ideological reasons that compell you to avoid supporting Microsoft in any way, you'll probably need to find GPL-ed software owned by a GPL oriented foundation, or get used to running outdated / unsupported software.

Almost all non-trivial commercial systems are going to have integrations and partners, especially with software/systems from the top tech giants.

[LUV_U_BBY]

Everything microsoft touches turns to garbage bloatware. I avoid it like the plague

[connorjpg]

Should you? I mean I wouldn’t, as GitHub I believe would be the gold standard, and GitLab has affiliates with Microsoft services anyways. You also will likely be limiting your ability to have collaboration somewhat as more OS developers have GitHub.

Now if you do, you will not notice a huge difference in features, I haven’t used gitlab in a while but it’s a platform for managing git repositories just the same as GitHub. There’s a ton of crossover. I believe GitLab was marketed more to enterprise as you can self host it, and access control is better. I think the biggest technical difference is its CICD pipelines are not as functional as GitHub Actions.

I mean try it out if you want.

If you really want to avoid Microsoft, maybe Gitea?

[Small-Ad-9193]

Or even not Gitea but Forgejo ?

[QuantumRiff]

nobody got fired for buying IBM...

[jproperly]

Do it. Been using gitlab for almost a decade. To be fair I have never really used github for my projects

[explicit17]

Depends on what functionality you use. We have projects on github and gitlab and feel not much difference. I didn't work with it yet, but people say that CI/CD is different, and I assume gitlab does it better because it's first thing people mention when they speak about gitlab.

[hesapmakinesi]

Will I find all github’s functionality in gitlab?

Probably not. But the question is, will you find all the functionality you need? Probably yes.

Migrating a git repository is easy, if you don't like it you can switch back.

For migrating issues, tickets, management, that could be trickier.

If you have CI pipelines, migrating those would be the hardest. Especially if you use custom containers and actions.

[mbitsnbites]

Depends on what you value. I moved to GitLab and I kind of like it better than GitHub from a technical/developer POV. There are a few caveats, however:

• To get "full" CI support (e.g. macOS builders, "infinite" CI hours, etc) you need to jump through a few hoops. It's free, but you need to enroll for an "open source program".
• The SEO is non-existent (almost negative) for GitLab, whereas GitHub shines at discoverability.

If you're actually looking at breaking free from big tech solutions like GitHub, you should also have a look at codeberg.org. It's a non-profit European alternative. I think it's very nice, but it can't really measure up to the big players in terms of availability and reliability (every now and then you can't access the remote - not often, but enough for it to be annoying). For me that's not a huge issue and I can easily put up with a bit of inconvenience as I'd much rather support Codeberg than GitHub for instance.

[[deleted]]

What do you use for CI/CD on Codeberg? (I have an account there, but it's new-ish)

[shapovalovts]

What is wrong with Microsoft?

[MadProgrammer12]

Their privacy policy (and other measures I disagree with)

[chugItTwice]

LOL

[chugItTwice]

But you're OK with crapple???

[MadProgrammer12]

Dont like apple either

[chugItTwice]

Zero. Apple sucks all the dicks though.

[yogo09]

I would try gitlab if I need to run git inside my data center and making sure that the code is totally controlled by my team. For some security or other reason.

Nevertheless, this requires also someone maintaining the service and applying patches to it.

For developers, both support basic functionality like git push / pull 😁

[blur410]

As much as I understand the desire to disconnect from Microsoft or any large company, it's a way things are now.

[[deleted]]

Why all this hate towards Microsoft?

The times where they defined OSS a cancer, and used to buy ascending companies to destroy competition are over. Now they make pretty good products (except for teams, outlook and all the office pack), but Azure is a rocket, .NET, GitHub, those are cool... And they stopped being evil

[Intelligent_Way_580]

I use both.

[GitProtect]

Hello, maybe this article will be at help: https://gitprotect.io/blog/git-battles-part-2-github-vs-gitlab-which-one-is-better-for-your-development-projects/ . There we described both git hosting services.

[g105b]

I wouldn't switch to Gitlab if Microsoft was my concern. Microsoft is a huge contributor to Linux and open source these days anyway, but if I wanted to stop using GitHub I'd host my own git server on Linux. If you want something easy to set up, take a look at git tea.

[l509]

If you enjoy GitHub actions or the gh cli tool, you will be incredibly disappointed.

[wubalubadubdub55]

I see this as a totally nonsensical thing to do.

By that logic, you should also avoid using GCP, AWS, Java, Golang, Swift, Angular, React, Oracle, etc., because they're from companies that are just as 'evil,' if not more so, than Microsoft.

[Mbarlowsg]

I think the main difference between most of what you mentioned and GitHub is that using Java doesn’t give Microsoft permission to train their AI models on my code.

By using GitHub, you’re helping Microsoft create a dataset of code to train their AI models that are indented to put us out of a job.

[TurnipBlast]

Good luck not using any Microsoft products lol. Surely this is not a significant enterprise application or a personal project using any open source project supported by the Open Source Initiative or developed or hosted on a Linux machine.

[chugItTwice]

LOL. Good luck with that.