I'd love to use a self-hosted VCS (git or svn) that supports directory-level ACLs && painless code review workflow. Can this be achieved with Phabricator?

I noodled around with Phabricator for a while and it's slick in many ways but extremely clunky in others. For instance, importing a repo that exists in another VCS is done at creation time in Gitlab as part of the flow - it's not a completely different step.

In Phabricator, you create the repo, you turn off its access URLs, add URLs for the repo you're mirroring, set them as a mirror source, and then turn the access URLs back on. This is about a 5-10 minute process per repo and it's all clicking around in a UI.

Have you looked at the rhodecode.com for svn/git?

really mixed feelings with phabricator. it's cool to have the concept of review instead of sending each comment immediately, but the UI still sucks. It's hard to understand which repo the pull request/review we are looking at belongs to for instance.

and it gets all f*cked up if you started a comment and didn't close the input. among many other UI stuff (not sure if the UI has improved or if any of it is configurable btw)

GitHub also has batched reviews by the way.

:) arc is mostly pain but the rest is nice. And the project review stuff is genius.