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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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.

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