I don't want to sound pedantic but this comment makes you look extremely ignorant and unaware of this space and its solutions, use cases, etc. Basically you sound completely oblivious of what's going on here.
If today was the first day that you saw GitLab, perhaps you don't have the domain knowledge to make any of this claims. Nothing you said here makes sense. The Git as a prefix in the name is just a technicality, the same way I could create an operating system called YeahOS and everyone would understand that OS is a suffix that blends into the branding.
But what makes you sound particularly ignorant it's calling GitLab a clone of Github. They are both git platforms, that's it. By that metric BitBucket, Gitea, Gogs, CodeCommit, Phabricator, etc., are all clones of GitHub.
If anything, recent GitHub functionalities like GitHub Actions are a clone of mature GitLab functionality like GitLab's CI.
It's all fair. Looking back at my comment I sounded a little bit harsh and I apologize for that.
What I was trying to establish is that there's really no solid ground to claim that any Git platform is a copy of another one since they are all essentially productivity and team-work wrappers around Git.
If you're talking about the general information architecture that's how SourceForge was even before Git existed, so hardly an original idea.
>no solid ground to claim that any Git platform is a copy of another
I think that's fairly obvious. I guess I didn't explain clear enough the point I was trying to make in the original post. I kind of regret writing it now.
If today was the first day that you saw GitLab, perhaps you don't have the domain knowledge to make any of this claims. Nothing you said here makes sense. The Git as a prefix in the name is just a technicality, the same way I could create an operating system called YeahOS and everyone would understand that OS is a suffix that blends into the branding.
But what makes you sound particularly ignorant it's calling GitLab a clone of Github. They are both git platforms, that's it. By that metric BitBucket, Gitea, Gogs, CodeCommit, Phabricator, etc., are all clones of GitHub.
If anything, recent GitHub functionalities like GitHub Actions are a clone of mature GitLab functionality like GitLab's CI.