What is GitHub and GitLab? What is the difference between them?
meda Changed status to publish 20/04/2023
GitLab and GitHub are both web-based code repositories and enables us to manage codes and share local file changes with a remote repository.
Some of the differences between GitLab and GitHub includes, but not limited to:
- GitLab is open source for community edition. But GitHub is not an open source.
- GitLab offers you free private repositories for open source projects, but GitHub does not.
- GitHub has higher availability and is more focused on infrastructure performance, but GitLab is more focused on offering a features-based system with a centralized and integrated platform.
- GitHub has a Git GUI client (GitHub Desktop), but GitLab does not have.
- GitHub is a cloud-native application and can also be installed on-premises (GitHub Enterprise Server) but GitLab uses a self-managed GitLab instance entirely offline.
meda Changed status to publish 17/04/2022