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?
GitHub Desktop is a fast and easy way to contribute to projects from Windows and OS X, whether you are a seasoned user or new user, GitHub Desktop is designed to simplify all processes and workflow in your GitHub. So Lets start integrating Gitlab with Github Desktop.
Keeping track of everything that is happening in your GitLab projects and groups can be quite overwhelming. Often times you care about not only one project, but multiple ones.
Yes you can, you can share the same key between them both (ssh key) or create a new one per git server.
The major difference between GitHub and GitLab is the platform each philosophy presents. GitHub has higher availability and is more focused on infrastructure performance, while GitLab is more focused on offering a features-based system with a centralized, integrated platform for web developers.
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.
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.)
Add a config
file to your .ssh folder that looks like this
Host gitlab.com
RSAAuthentication yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_rsa
User mygitlabloginemail
Clone / pull your repository through Git Bash
And thats it, you can now use Github for Windows with your gitlab repository.
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.
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.
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