🆚 GitHub vs. GitLab

GitHub is a cloud-based platform for code hosting, version control, and collaborative software development built around the Git system and owned by Microsoft.

It hosts repositories with full revision history and provides branching and merging workflows with pull requests, code review tools, issue tracking, project boards, and wikis, along with integrated automation through GitHub Actions and APIs.

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GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform for collaborative software development, project management, source control, and automation built around the Git system.

It hosts Git repositories and provides issue tracking, merge requests for code review, built-in CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment, wikis, and project planning tools.

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Code Hosting category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CI/CD category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Code Hosting category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CI/CD category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Code Hosting category.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the CI/CD category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the CI/CD category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Code Hosting category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the CI/CD category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Code Hosting category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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