I am all about having things work out-of-the-box and GitLab excels here - I had to perform minimal configuration to get it working. [remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/USER/REPOSITORY.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* pushurl = https://oauth2:MY_GITLAB_KEY@MY_GITLAB_URL/USER/REPOSITORY.git pushurl = https://github.com/USER/REPOSITORY.git You don’t even need to do this with GitLab - it will work with any other Git repository.