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GitHub vs GitLab vs Gitea: What are the differences?

Introduction:

GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea are popular web-based Git repository hosting services that offer version control, collaboration, and project management features. While all three platforms share similarities, there are key differences that set them apart. Here are the six main differences between GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea:

  1. Hosting and Ownership: GitHub is a cloud-based service owned by Microsoft, offering both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options for Git repositories. GitLab, on the other hand, provides both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options with the added benefit of being open-source. Gitea is a community-driven, lightweight self-hosted Git service.

  2. Pricing and Plans: GitHub offers different pricing plans depending on the features required, including free options for public repositories. GitLab, on the other hand, offers a similar pricing structure but has a free plan that includes more features compared to GitHub. Gitea is entirely free and open-source.

  3. Deployment Options: GitHub is typically used as a cloud-hosted solution, making it easy to set up and get started quickly. GitLab, on the other hand, provides both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options, giving users more flexibility in terms of deployment. Gitea is primarily focused on self-hosted deployments, making it suitable for those who prefer to have complete control over their infrastructure.

  4. Integrated CI/CD: GitLab offers integrated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, which allow developers to automate various stages of the software development lifecycle. GitHub also offers CI/CD functionalities through its Actions feature, but they are not as integrated as GitLab. Gitea, however, does not have built-in CI/CD capabilities and relies on external tools for this functionality.

  5. Project Management Features: GitLab provides robust project management features such as issue tracking, kanban boards, and time tracking, making it suitable for Agile and Scrum project management methodologies. GitHub also offers similar project management features but with a slightly simpler interface. Gitea, on the other hand, focuses primarily on code hosting and collaboration, lacking extensive project management capabilities.

  6. Community and Ecosystem: Over the years, GitHub has built a large and active community of developers, which leads to a vibrant ecosystem with a wide range of integrations, plugins, and third-party tools. GitLab has a growing community and ecosystem, parallel to GitHub, but it may not have the same level of integration options. Gitea, being relatively new and lightweight, has a smaller community and ecosystem compared to GitHub and GitLab.

In summary, GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea differ in terms of ownership, pricing, deployment options, integrated CI/CD, project management features, and community/ecosystem. The choice between these platforms depends on individual needs, preferences, and the scale of the project.

Advice on Gitea, GitHub, and GitLab

Hi, I need advice. In my project, we are using Bitbucket hosted on-prem, Jenkins, and Jira. Also, we have restrictions not to use any plugins for code review, code quality, code security, etc., with bitbucket. Now we want to migrate to AWS CodeCommit, which would mean that we can use, let's say, Amazon CodeGuru for code reviews and move to AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline for build automation in the future rather than using Jenkins.

Now I want advice on below.

  1. Is it a good idea to migrate from Bitbucket to AWS Codecommit?
  2. If we want to integrate Jira with AWS Codecommit, then how can we do this? If a developer makes any changes in Jira, then a build should be triggered automatically in AWS and create a Jira ticket if the build fails. So, how can we achieve this?
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Sinisha Mihajlovski
Design Lead | Senior Software Developer ยท | 1 upvotes ยท 359.2K views
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Hi Kavita. It would be useful to explain in a bit more detail the integration to Jira you would like to achieve. Some of the Jira plugins will work with any git repository, regardless if its github/bitbucket/gitlab.

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Phillip Manwaring
Developer at Coach Align ยท | 17 upvotes ยท 387.5K views

Both of us are far more familiar with GitHub than Gitlab, and so for our first big project together decided to go with what we know here instead of figuring out something new (there are so many new things we need to figure out, might as well reduce the number of optionally new things, lol). We aren't currently taking advantage of GitHub Actions or very many other built-in features (besides Dependabot) but luckily it integrates very well with the other services we're using.

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Elmar Wouters
CEO, Managing Director at Wouters Media ยท | 7 upvotes ยท 554.8K views

I first used BitBucket because it had private repo's, and it didn't disappoint me. Also with the smooth integration of Jira, the decision to use BitBucket as a full application maintenance service was as easy as 1, 2, 3.

I honestly love BitBucket, by the looks, by the UI, and the smooth integration with Tower.

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Weverton Timoteo

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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Weverton Timoteo

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 Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, Itโ€™s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

Itโ€™s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to โ€œclean upโ€ the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley ยท | 8 upvotes ยท 700.1K views

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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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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Nazar Atamaniuk
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At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I canโ€™t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesnโ€™t let us chose it for our projects.

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Pros of Gitea
Pros of GitHub
Pros of GitLab
  • 24
    Self-hosted
  • 16
    Lightweight
  • 15
    Free
  • 12
    Simple
  • 9
    Easy Setup
  • 9
    Multiple code maintainers
  • 6
    Pull requests and code reviews
  • 5
    Squash and Merge is supported
  • 5
    Written in Go
  • 5
    Import existing git repositories
  • 4
    Nice gui
  • 3
    Run in Raspberry Pi
  • 2
    Community-fork of Gogs
  • 2
    LDAP Support
  • 1
    ๐–ฃ โšช๐”—ขโšช๐Ÿž‹โšช๐”—ขโšช๐–ฃ 
  • 1
    Gitea Actions(Github compatible)
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    Richable Packages
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    Open source friendly
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    Easy source control
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    Nice UI
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    Great for team collaboration
  • 867
    Easy setup
  • 504
    Issue tracker
  • 487
    Great community
  • 483
    Remote team collaboration
  • 449
    Great way to share
  • 442
    Pull request and features planning
  • 147
    Just works
  • 132
    Integrated in many tools
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    Free Public Repos
  • 116
    Github Gists
  • 113
    Github pages
  • 83
    Easy to find repos
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Easy to find projects
  • 60
    It's free
  • 56
    Network effect
  • 49
    Extensive API
  • 43
    Organizations
  • 42
    Branching
  • 34
    Developer Profiles
  • 32
    Git Powered Wikis
  • 30
    Great for collaboration
  • 24
    It's fun
  • 23
    Clean interface and good integrations
  • 22
    Community SDK involvement
  • 20
    Learn from others source code
  • 16
    Because: Git
  • 14
    It integrates directly with Azure
  • 10
    Standard in Open Source collab
  • 10
    Newsfeed
  • 8
    Fast
  • 8
    Beautiful user experience
  • 8
    It integrates directly with Hipchat
  • 7
    Easy to discover new code libraries
  • 6
    Smooth integration
  • 6
    Integrations
  • 6
    Graphs
  • 6
    Nice API
  • 6
    It's awesome
  • 6
    Cloud SCM
  • 5
    Quick Onboarding
  • 5
    Remarkable uptime
  • 5
    CI Integration
  • 5
    Reliable
  • 5
    Hands down best online Git service available
  • 4
    Version Control
  • 4
    Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
  • 4
    Simple but powerful
  • 4
    Loved by developers
  • 4
    Free HTML hosting
  • 4
    Uses GIT
  • 4
    Security options
  • 4
    Easy to use and collaborate with others
  • 3
    Easy deployment via SSH
  • 3
    Ci
  • 3
    IAM
  • 3
    Nice to use
  • 2
    Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
  • 2
    Beautiful
  • 2
    Self Hosted
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    Easy source control and everything is backed up
  • 2
    Never dethroned
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    All in one development service
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    Good tools support
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    Free HTML hostings
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 2
    Very Easy to Use
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Leads the copycats
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    Free private repos
  • 1
    Profound
  • 1
    Dasf
  • 508
    Self hosted
  • 431
    Free
  • 339
    Has community edition
  • 242
    Easy setup
  • 240
    Familiar interface
  • 137
    Includes many features, including ci
  • 113
    Nice UI
  • 84
    Good integration with gitlabci
  • 57
    Simple setup
  • 35
    Has an official mobile app
  • 34
    Free private repository
  • 31
    Continuous Integration
  • 23
    Open source, great ui (like github)
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    Slack Integration
  • 15
    Full CI flow
  • 11
    Free and unlimited private git repos
  • 10
    All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)
  • 10
    User, group, and project access management is simple
  • 8
    Intuitive UI
  • 8
    Built-in CI
  • 6
    Full DevOps suite with Git
  • 6
    Both public and private Repositories
  • 5
    Integrated Docker Registry
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    So easy to use
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    CI
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    Build/pipeline definition alongside code
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    It's powerful source code management tool
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    Dockerized
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    It's fully integrated
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    On-premises
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    Security and Stable
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    Unlimited free repos & collaborators
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    Not Microsoft Owned
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    Excellent
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    Issue system
  • 4
    Mattermost Chat client
  • 3
    Great for team collaboration
  • 3
    Free private repos
  • 3
    Because is the best remote host for git repositories
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    Built-in Docker Registry
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    Opensource
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    Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment
  • 3
    I like the its runners and executors feature
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    Beautiful
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    Groups of groups
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    Multilingual interface
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    Powerful software planning and maintaining tools
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    Review Apps feature
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    Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI
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    One-click install through DigitalOcean
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    Powerful Continuous Integration System
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    It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker
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    The dashboard with deployed environments
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    HipChat intergration
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    Many private repo
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    Kubernetes Integration
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    Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)
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    Wounderful
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    Native CI
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    Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

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Cons of Gitea
Cons of GitHub
Cons of GitLab
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    Community-fork of Gogs
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    Easy Windows authentication is not supported
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    Owned by micrcosoft
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    Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
  • 15
    Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
  • 10
    API scoping could be better
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    Only 3 collaborators for private repos
  • 4
    Limited featureset for issue management
  • 3
    Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
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    GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
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    No multilingual interface
  • 1
    Takes a long time to commit
  • 1
    Expensive
  • 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

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What is 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.

What is 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.

What is GitLab?

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.

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