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

  • second@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      Yes that’s true. I guess what I wanted to point out is that GitLab has dependencies like Postgres, Redis, Ruby (with Rails), Vue.js… whereas Forgejo can use just SQLite and jQuery.

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      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?

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          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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        Probably Forgejo/Gitea also uses such dependencies, but their Go counterparts which are statically built into the server binary.

        If resource efficiency only depended on that, Gitlab would be more efficient with memory because of this. We all know that’s not the case, I just said it as a comparison.

        This also means that while Forgejo/Gitea depends less on your system installation, it also wont benefit from updated dependency packages.

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          it also wont benefit from updated dependency packages

          If they maintain the binary properly, could cause less issues with dependencies compatibility, so it’s less pain for the DevOps team, like a container image, just pull the new image and done.