The repos can be stored on the owner’s server The repos can be stored on gitlab.com 2 editions : Community (free) and Enterprise (not free !) Used by over 100 000 organizations (NASA, …)
“one click” installation “One click” installation with : Omnibus Download Omnibus package on https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ Follow given installation process (Easy !)
contains several users One user may belongs to several groups User has role (such as “admin”, “developer” …) Specifics rights can be given to each role Access to projects can be restricted by groups and/or users
Statistics (branches, tags, commits, …) File review with history & blame system “Network” overview of branching system Issues tracker Merge requests Wiki
Request Merge Request can be commented (That’s called Code Review) The “diff” view shows differences between old and new version of files Comments can be posted on each line of the diff, helping code improvement The merge can be processed by a single click on the “accept merge” button