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Gerrit is like old school git, the flexibility of github and gitlab far exceed gerrit's use in my opinion.



GitHub and GitLab are more polished and support different workflows, but the Gerrit workflow is really quite specific and is mostly unsupported by the regular GitHub/Lab tooling.

I moved from a company using GitHub (and a decade of GitHub based open source experience) to a company using a Gerrit-like workflow, and I can see why people would be resistant to a move. On the surface the options look quite similar, but "at scale" I can see Gerrit working quite well and missing certain equivalents that would make a transition hard.

That's not to say GitHub/Lab aren't better, or that a move might not be worth it for other reasons, but a transition that pushes people out of their comfort zone and reduces their productivity for unproven, potential, future gains, is a hard one to justify.




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