We performed a comparison between GitHub and GitLab based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Result: Based on the reviews provided by users, GitHub and GitLab both seem to provide comprehensive and practical software development and project management tools. Long-time users find GitLab's customer service and responsiveness less reliable than GitHub's because they haven't had enough time to develop in that direction.
"The product helps our team collaborate across different locations."
"The solution is scalable."
"GitHub allows us the option to push files from a non-UA method or directly upload files from the UA. You can integrate GitHub with Jenkins to do CI/CD."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it's cloud-based, and we don't have to manage an on-premises server to use it."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy but it is always good to connect with GitHub's team that manages APIs."
"GitHub is the best tool for source repositories."
"GitHub's source code management is top-notch. It's easy to inspect changes and visualize code and differences. Their action system is comprehensive in terms of making changes and automation."
"We use GitHub instead of our regular shared drive. It offers instant access to shared folders as well as good security."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The solution should have less integration with the AI part, but it needs to add features with other automation tools so that it can be easily integrated."
"The product must document the CI/CD process more."
"Github needs more storage."
"This solution could be improved by offering crowd sourced support where we could ask questions to other users."
"It would be good if there were training materials for junior developers."
"If something has to be moved into approvals, and if they don't approve it in a few hours, then they should move the approval request to some other user, or they should have a way to escalate it."
"The initial setup requires heavy documentation which can be challenging for new developers."
"Though I haven't done much research, GitHub lacks in providing more functions like GitLab."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"The documentation is confusing."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
GitHub is ranked 12th in Application Security Tools with 71 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews. GitHub is rated 8.6, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, Fortify on Demand and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our GitHub vs. GitLab report.
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