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I posted before[0] about why I moved to gitlab; I'm using a self-hosted instance and the only real complaint I have is resource consumption. But if you bite the bullet a bit it's a really great product.

The other thing would be "ease of deployment" or lack thereof- if you're going for anything other than omnibus installs or docker images then it can be a bit painful. (I wanted to run on freebsd for example).

But, yes, it's super nice to have something not only comparable to github but even superior in some areas. I would definitely run the enterprise edition if that were my decision at work.

[0]: https://libsecure.so/t/github-alternative-aka-weve-moved-git...




How has your experience of installing gitlab on freebsd been? Anything in particular that can be improved? I'm pretty sure the gitlab team is open for all kind of improvements. :)


Someone wrote a very nice and detailed guide, however upgrading isn't mentioned[0]

it also suggests operating under bad practices like running gitlab from /home/

I guess I could write a decent salt-formula to do all this, but I can't handle upgrading of gitlab easily, it always breaks when I take a new branch from git and run a gitlab-ctl reconfigure.

[0]: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/insta...



Last time I tried Gitlab, I changed the setting to allow more than 10 projects for each user but the changes never took place. So I stuck with Gogs which is much much faster anyway.


Similar view for myself; though the resource consumption is such a minor complaint that I don't even really consider it relative to all of the benefits GitLab provides.




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