Does GitHub for Windows work with GitLab?

Question

While working on a project using GitHub I've fallen in love with GitHub for Windows as a client. Now a new project beckons where I'll be using GitLab instead of GitHub.

Will I still be able to use GitHub for Windows as a client for GitLab? After all, they're both based on git, right? If not, what clients are available for GitLab?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use the Windows GitHub client and the GitHub Desktop client with GitLab, BitBucket or any other hosted Git solution.

We only use it with HTTPS and you'll need a valid certificate if you do use HTTPS. It may work with HTTP as well. We never did get SSH to work completely right since it's a tough to inject your own SSH keys into the application.

If you want to clone a repository, you have to drag and drop the HTTP URL onto the GitHub application.

I was unable to get the drag and drop trick to work on OS X. But you can add locally cloned repositories into the OSX version and then the application works like normal. And OSX supports SSH keys unlike the Windows version.

Answer 2

Yes you can use GitHub For Windows with GitLab, You can even use SSH. (The accepted answer didn't get SSH working, but here is how you get it working.)

1. Add your public ssh key from github_rsa.pub (which is found in your .ssh folder) to your SSH keys on Gitlab.com

2. Add a config file to your .ssh folder that looks like this

   Host gitlab.com
   RSAAuthentication yes
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_rsa
   User mygitlabloginemail
   

3. Clone / pull your repository through Git Bash

4. Drag the folder to Github For Windows

And thats it, you can now use Github for Windows with your gitlab repository.

Answer 3

The answer is YES. You can use GitHub for Windows on GitLab. And not just on Gitlab, you can use it for repositories on Bitbucket as well.

Answer 4

The GitHub for Windows application allows you to manually add and work with repositories from any remote location (ie GitLab/BitBucket...) or local location (your hard drive or network folder).

However, it only has the option to add your account info for GitHub. Whatever functionality that is tied to that account login will only work for GitHub. I am guessing that functionality is automatically recognizing all your GitHub repositories.