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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by grant@toast.ooo to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
 

I've seen some comments about how "gitlab bad" or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?

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[–] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Something not mentioned yet: Forgejo, the software running Codeberg, has a smaller feature set and narrower scope than GitLab ("GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform" from their website).

Forgejo is much easier to administrate for smaller groups. For example compare the dependencies mentioned in the Forgejo installation documentation and the Gitlab installation documentation.

[–] second@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That's a bit of an unfair comparison - that's the GitLab instructions to install from source. Most people use a package (rpm, deb) to install GitLab.

The installation instructions for GitLab from prebuilt binaries is https://about.gitlab.com/install/, and that's significantly shorter.

That said, I think for most home applications, GitLab is hugely overkill.

[–] SNFi@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Looking at it, I see the following...

GitLab's deps:

sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev libpcre2-dev build-essential git-core

Forgejo deps:

apt install git git-lfs

I am missing something?

[–] second@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume that's to build from source.

The times I've installed GitLab it's been a case of dnf install https://.... The rest gets dragged in automatically.

[–] SNFi@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, this way they could install dependencies anyway just automatically, so you don't see them unless you read before accepting the installation. I still can read this:

Install and configure the necessary dependencies
sudo yum install -y curl policycoreutils-python openssh-server perl

And then:

Add the GitLab package repository and install the package
curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ee/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash

So they do some magic here, the script just installs the repository, so I can't see exactly any dependency they are currently using.

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