These are the similarities: Github vs Gitlab
- The version control System Git is the common base from Github, and Gitlab.
- Both offer a Cloud-based environment for distributed Teams with a Central platform you are using to store the source code, share, and test can post.
- Both environments are used by many thousands of projects - open source as commercial.
The familiar Github UI
What are the advantages of Gitlab are?
Gitlab has been designed to Github and offers you a number of further developments and advantages:
- Gitlab promises its users an enhanced user interface, you can manage projects, users, groups, Changes, and statistics on a Desktop.
- Gitlab offers more extensive Wiki-based documentation and Issue Tracking. Here, you can use any Form of file to include, for example, to the description of an error is relevant.
- "Code Snippets" allow for a much finer resolution, even the smallest Code-to share parts of projects, without the need to copy the entire project.
- Verebsserte security features allow you to protect parts of the code before the Changes, to give users certain rights, or to have a project complete that is not publicly run.
- The management of milestones has been improved: Now you can set only individual goals, and track, but also set goals for groups or the overall project.
- Differentiated offer: GitLab is as GitLab Community Edition (CE) Enterprise Edition (EE), and as a hosted version at GitLab.com available. The Enterprise Edition is the cost per User 39 Euro/year. For additional fees, offers the comprehensive support.
- GitLab is a fast-growing band of contributors and organization such as Alibaba, NASA, CERN, and other uses.
The new, fresh Gitlab UI
In the next article, we will tell you how to do a Pull Request in Github create.
