# Integrate Pijul to GitLab

**URL:** <https://discourse.pijul.org/t/integrate-pijul-to-gitlab/216>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/integrate-pijul-to-gitlab/216 "2018-06-04T21:02:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvqQChOcJ47gKp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@EvqQChOcJ47gKp](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/EvqQChOcJ47gKp)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/integrate-pijul-to-gitlab/216/1 "2018-06-04T21:02:32Z")

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GitHub is bought by Microsoft. Mass migration to GitLab and other repository hostings have started. It’s an opportunity.

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**Author:** ![yory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/da6949/32.png) [@yory](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/yory)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/integrate-pijul-to-gitlab/216/2 "2018-06-05T07:22:53Z")

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As already explained, pijul doesn’t work like git, from the interface to the most low-level internals. It’s not like we can can drop it in a service that’s made for git and expect it to work. Note that neither github nor gitlab support **mercurial** , though it’s quite used too: as always, it’s a matter of costs. It’s not trivial to adapt a tool that’s completely built around how another tool works to another very different tool — and pijul is much much more different to git than mercurial. People are migrating from github to gitlab; not from git to something else; changing host is a bother, and nothing more, changing the VCS is a totally different thing.

We know, really, that it would be great to integrate pijul, drop javascript, self-host forums, and all the stuff you suggested. But this is the real world, and nothing comes for free in the real world; the pijul project isn’t backed by multibillion dollars companies, is a research project by a few Ph.Ds, with limited time and money.