GitLab vs CodeStream | What are the differences?

Overview

GitLab

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Followers54.5K

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CodeStream

Stacks27

Followers33

Votes3

CodeStream vs GitLab: What are the differences?

Developers describe CodeStream as "The Knowledge Base Behind Your Codebase". Dev team's discussions about code happen right inside the IDE, and are saved permanently with the code blocks to which they refer. On the other hand, GitLab is detailed as "Open source self-hosted Git management software". GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

CodeStream can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment Tools" category, while GitLab is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

Some of the features offered by CodeStream are:

Multiple IDE support
Works across branches
Discussions saved alongside your codebase

On the other hand, GitLab provides the following key features:

Manage git repositories with fine grained access controls that keep your code secure
Perform code reviews and enhance collaboration with merge requests
Each project can also have an issue tracker and a wiki

GitLab is an open source tool with 20.1K GitHub stars and 5.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitLab's open source repository on GitHub.

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Anonymous

May 25, 2020

Decided

Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Jul 28, 2020

Review

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Aug 3, 2020

Review

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

Pick the correct target branch
Make Drafts explicit
Name things properly
Ask help for tools
Remove the noise
Fetch necessary data
Understand Mergeability
Pass the message
Add screenshots
Be found in the future
Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Detailed Comparison

GitLab	CodeStream
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.	CodeStream helps development teams resolve issues faster, and improve code quality by streamlining code reviews inside your IDE. CodeStream enables asynchronous communication among developers on your team, anywhere.
Manage git repositories with fine grained access controls that keep your code secure;Perform code reviews and enhance collaboration with merge requests;Each project can also have an issue tracker and a wiki;Used by more than 100,000 organizations, GitLab is the most popular solution to manage git repositories on-premises;Completely free and open source (MIT Expat license);Powered by Ruby on Rails	Multiple IDE support; Works across branches; Reviews and discussions saved alongside your codebase; Automatic at-mentions; One-click navigation; Streamline code reviews; Merge conflict prediction; Automatic assigning code reviewer; Single Sign On
Statistics
GitHub Stars 0	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 0	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 63.6K	Stacks 27
Followers 54.5K	Followers 33
Votes 2.5K	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 508 Self hosted 431 Free 339 Has community edition 242 Easy setup 240 Familiar interface Cons 28 Slow ui performance 9 Introduce breaking bugs every release 6 Insecure (no published IP list for whitelisting) 2 Built-in Docker Registry 1 Review Apps feature	Pros 3 Integrates with everything
Integrations
No integrations available	Slack Asana Bitbucket Jira GitHub Trello Microsoft Teams Visual Studio Live Share

What are some alternatives to GitLab, CodeStream?

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.

RhodeCode

RhodeCode provides centralized control over distributed code repositories. Developers get code review tools and custom APIs that work in Mercurial, Git & SVN. Firms get unified security and user control so that their CTOs can sleep at night

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. It published under the MIT license.

Upsource

Upsource summarizes recent changes in your repository, showing commit messages, authors, quick diffs, links to detailed diff views and associated code reviews. A commit graph helps visualize the history of commits, branches and merges in your repository.