Comparison to other Git web interfaces

Features

This is a comparison of features between GitLab and other similar software.

• Only features present in at least one of the listed softwares can be added here.
• Use X for present, ? for unknown, empty box for absent
• Keep the table ordered by Feature Title.
• Keep Feature Titles under 50 chars.
• If it is not obvious what the feature is from the title, link to a new explanation as (Y), where Y is unused.

Feature Title	GitLab	GitHub	Bitbucket	Google Code	SourceForge
Recent Branches Merge Request (1)		X	?	?	?
Upvote Downvote Issues	X		?	?	?

(1) When you push a recent branch, GitHub shows a messages suggesting a Pull Request from the recently pushed branch.

GitLab Reviews

This is a list of other sources that comment on GitLab's features, not necessarily in comparison to other softwares.

It is placed here since almost all articles do that talk about GitLab do compare it to GitHub.

• keep it sorted from most recent last edited, to oldest last edit.

• provide a very short summary if possible.

• forum questions that never close due to age like StackOverflow of Quora can be kept at the top since they will always be updated

• forum questions that have been closed and are unlikely to be reopened get the date at which they were closed

The list:

• (forum): http://www.quora.com/GitHub/How-much-of-threat-is-Gitlab-to-GitHub-Enterprise. Not a threat.

• 2014-01: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17167414/which-is-the-best-git-hosting-sw-gitolite-vs-gitlab-vs-gitorius. GitLab is better than Gitorious.

• 2013-08: http://brandonwamboldt.ca/gitlab-github-1194/. Equal to GitHub enterprise quality / price ratio.

• 2012-10: http://www.boxuk.com/blog/a-tale-of-three-git-systems. GitHub is better.

• 2011-10: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/10/13/ship-it-faster-and-cheaper-gitlab-is-github-for-your-own-servers

Feature request lists in other systems

In order to beat the concurrence, we must learn where they fail.

Those are also good places to make some GitLab publicity when we have a feature that they don't.

• https://github.com/isaacs/github. Unofficial GitHub feature requests.