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Thanks for following up.

The relation between git and GitLab is that GitLab is a front-end for git. However, it's so much more than that.

I understand that there are lots of other features, but if I could make one suggestion to help improve the site, it would be to make that basic relationship clear -- or indeed evident at all. Apparently I did have the right general idea about what GitLab was, but I was expecting a front-end to Git to be #1 on the features page, and the rest to follow. Likewise I was expecting to find "getting started" documentation explaining things like whether Git needs to be installed independently of GitLab and where repositories are stored and how GitLab is integrated with them. In practice, I didn't find any of this in about half an hour of looking around the site, and so in effect what actually happened is that I turned up interested and having the right sort of idea and left thinking I'd totally misunderstood and GitLab wasn't what I was looking for at all. Probably not quite the result you were hoping for!