[fpc-devel] FPC & Lazarus moving to gitlab

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Hopefully I should be able to get to grips with the command line 
interface so I can update my local copy through gitlab while also 
coinciding with all my local git branches for development (mixing SVN 
and git has been an... interesting experience!)

Gareth aka. Kit

On 23/06/2021 13:46, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
> On 23/06/2021 00:09, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2021, at 4:02 PM, Sven Barth 
>>> <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The plan has *never* been GitHub. The original plan was self hosted 
>>> with a *mirror* on GitHub. Now we'll instead use GitLab as main 
>>> repository with a mirror on GitHub.
>>>
>> How does the mirroring work? It seems 99% of the dev world is using 
>> GitHub now so it's a pity to have to learn new tools if we don't have 
>> to. I'm very happy with GitHub myself and use it often.
>>
> If you know github, then gitlab will not be that different. (though 
> yes, the menu structure is not 1 to 1 => so a few minutes to find some 
> of the features)
>
> First of all, most work on the code is done in git => on your PC. So 
> that is identical.
>
> Issue trackers are similar. gitlab offers a few things on top (like 
> issue boards, a configurable view of issues grouped by some criteria)
>
> "pull requests" are called "merge request", otherwise similar too.
>
> ---
> Apparently (according to Michael) github credentials can even be used 
> for login ...
>
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