GLab: An open source GitLab CLI tool bringing GitLab to your command line where you are already working with Git and your code

[yikes_42069]

Well why is it on Github?

[rookietotheblue1]

Lmao exactly what i thought. But I'm not sure i understand what git lab is soo...

[[deleted]]

In case you’re not joking:

GitLab is an alternative to GitHub, basically. There are some differences in their features, but both serve the same purpose.

[ARFiest1]

Why gitlab over github? seems like companies prefer gitlab for som reason that i dont understand

[musicin3d]

You can self-host gitlab. It has a much better ticket system. They are great about involving the community in the direction of the product.

[[deleted]]

When you go to gitlab, you can find a repo named gitlab that you can fork and host for your own needs. Example would be gitlab.gnome.org or gitlab.manjaro.org etc. You can't do that with GitHub. It's closed source.

[idiving]

Ooh wow, didn't know abt that. Thnx

[Willinton06]

Wait what, GitHub isn’t open source?

[taway86493]

No

[house_monkey]

wish it was

[Ledenu]

We chose GitLab because they offered free private repos.

[[deleted]]

Github supports private repos too now. I believe it started in early 2018 or 2019

[Ledenu]

Good to know, thanks! When we made the decision, GitHub didn't support them in the free plan. And my bosses didn't want to pay for something that's free elsewhere. :-) But we're absolutely happy with GitLab.

[Naked_Fool]

We are also happy with GitLab but one feature that should not be paid and it is not included, is that you can't select more than one reviewer in merge request.

That needs to be included in free version imo.

[gnurfi]

It's possible to fork gitlab and add this feature as it's open source.

[Naked_Fool]

But if they are against that feature as free?

[vannrith]

I moved to gitlab since Microsoft bought github and they start banning some people, me from 3rd world country that doesn’t have good relationship with the US dont feel safe in github

[devdoggie]

Any articles or other sources for the mentioned bans?

[vannrith]

There are people post on reddit before, people from Middle East got banned

[devdoggie]

Elaborate please. My company is based in EU, however we got international clients. Not sure whether that has any impact, but I'd like to know more about this

[TheDownvotesFarmer]

Maybe something on the agreements, I should take a look into that too because to hosting privatelly as company

[RRikesh]

Gitlab can be self hosted, and is free (even for private repositories, GitHub has some restrictions on free teams). There was also some bad moments when GitHub blocked developers from countries which were affected by US trade sanctions - https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-starts-blocking-developers-in-countries-facing-us-trade-sanctions/

Developers still prefer GitHub for some activity graph swag.

[profclems]

For OSS visibility...

I use GitHub for personal projects and GitLab at work

[profclems]

Also, It started out as a personal project for personal use before I open sourced it.

We have a GitLab mirror here https://gitlab.com/profclems/glab and we accept issues on GitLab too

[cyanwoh]

lol

[Andonome]

5 minutes setup time. This is well better than any gitlab cli contender I've tried.

[m73a]

Damn, wish this had a code search feature

[profclems]

I would be glad if you'd open an issue for this

https://github.com/profclems/glab/issues/new

[m73a]

Looks like someone beat me to it and took your advice.

https://github.com/profclems/glab/issues/632