I&#x27;ve been using gitlab for the past few weeks to host a couple of repositories, it&#x27;s awesome so far since it&#x27;s the only solution that allowed me to mirror a repo AND create my own branch on the mirrored repository.<p>The only complaint I really have is the fact that I have to append a &quot;.git&quot; to the http url to clone the repository. Alternatively, it&#x27;d be nice to have a git:&#x2F;&#x2F; read only url too.