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Asked: 2026-06-08T23:26:12+00:00

I’m comparing Gitorious with Gitlab, and while there are many things I like about

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I’m comparing Gitorious with Gitlab, and while there are many things I like about Gitlab, it has a very fundamental problem. For every new repository, the creator needs to manage who has access to that repository.

Our model is rather simple: if you have access to gitlab, you have access to most repositories. Only a few repositories would be closed off, and we don’t even need them on gitlab. Gitorious support that model, but I haven’t seen any way of doing that on gitlab.

Can it be done? If so, how?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Public repositories are something the developers have been resistant to adding support for. They don’t want to gitlab to be a github competitor.
    See https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/12

    Team support is something that is still under development. Hopefully what your are requesting will be implemented at some point.
    See:
    https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/739

    Until the better Team support gets implemented your best bet might be to use a script like:
    https://gist.github.com/1722391 to add users to all projects. This is the approach I’m currently using.

    or use the new rake commands to bulk add users:

    rake add_user_to_project_teams[email]  # Add user to as a developer to all projects
rake add_users_to_project_teams        # Add all users to all projects, system administrators are added as masters
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