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GitLab Acquires Gitorious

Posted by Soulskill on from the git-together dept.

New submitter sckirklan writes with news that code repository GitLab has purchased rival service Gitorious. Gitorious users are now able to import their projects into GitLab. They must do so by the end of May, because Gitorious will shut down on June 1st. Rolf Bjaanes, Gitorious CEO, gives some background on the reasons for the acquisition: “At Gitorious we saw more and more organizations adopting GitLab. Due to decreased income from on-premises customers, running the free Gitorious.org was no longer sustainable. GitLab was solving the same problem that we were, but was solving it better.” “This acquisition will accelerate the growth of GitLab. With more than 100,000 organizations using it, it is already the most used on-premise solution for Git repository management, and bringing Gitorious into the fold will significantly increase that footprint.” says Sytse Sijbrandij, GitLab CEO.

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  1. Re:Management speak, blah blah by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    GitLab, not GitHub. GitHub is a different solution that provides pretty much the same software.

    Strangely enough the company I work for recently (like six months ago) transitioned our internal git repositories from running on Gitorious to running on GitLab. From my experience GitLab is indeed the better product.

    GitHub still seems to be better than both but I've never used that in a commercial setting.

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  2. Re:Management speak, blah blah by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Github's hosted service is more reliable than almost every in-house source control central repository I've seen in decades of experience. The concern about the off-site risks is understandable, but for robust multi-location access, it's been much better than anything that even I could host in house.

  3. Re: Misery loves company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gitlab is a really nice service. I hope they won't fail, I am using them for some of my public repositories. The functionality is mostly identical to github, but they offer free private repositories.

    It would be cool, if gitlab could.improve on the issue tracking a bit. It is as.limited as githubs. Nice for small projects, but I fin. It unwieldy with nore than 50 or so open issues.

    Gitorious as indeed a horrible service and they did not improve in any way in all the time I had the misfortune of having to use them. No idea why gitlab bothered to buy them. I guess gitorious still has a couple of customers that actually pay money to host their code.