[binderbizingdos]

Thanks. Yes the upgrades are much better now.

I think Gitlab kind of suffers from the Ubuntu syndrome when they were still pushing the non-LTS release as default. Many things were not tested long enough and would cause issues for many people while they were using it.

For example after one upgrade browsing the repos didn't work because apparently the Git version hat to be a specific version. I think this was neither tested nor is the Git version mentioned anywhere as a requisite.

Or with v5.3 the Git satellites would get into an unclean state sometimes and had to be cleaned out manually.

I took quite some time to find this out too.

So my suggestion: more polish and testing and less new features.

[sytse]

Suggestion noted, thanks. By the way, both issues you mention (git version and satellite state) are now in the gitlab:check rake task so at least they are easier to detect. I'll make sure that the git version is added to the readme.