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Google haven't built up too much of a user base for GCP's Cloud Source Repositories service yet (my speculation), so I wonder if they're viewing Gitlab as an acquisition target.

TBQH, I don't see Gitlab lasting too much longer without an acquisition event of some sort, when facing up against this sort of Microsoft-backed feature funding. And I say this as a bigger user of Gitlab than Github (primarily because of the free private repositories and organisations).

>>shrika+(OP)
I think an acquisition of Gitlab would be the only way for me to migrate back to GH from GL. I've been a happy user of Gitlab for years now and have no yearning desire to return to Github.

>>shrika+(OP)
Gitlab need only wait before GH starts adding Azure-first and Azure-only features, as they are wont to do. At that point they can just offer "the same but for any other cloud provider". Amazon, Google, or IBM, might even throw them a bone.

>>toyg+tv
It seems like in the medium term, staying independent could be a huge boon to Gitlab- like you said, it'd allow them to make high quality integrations with all cloud provider utilities.

In the long term we'd probably see the cloud providers create their own social revision control projects, and then fuck around with private APIs so the quality of the integration between their cloud service and their source control leads you to stay locked in.

Even in that scenario it could make sense for there to be a 'neutral' party like gitlab, though.

I acknowledge this is my own imagination and I've no claim to know the future! :)