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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : Adam O'Grady
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By: Adam O'Grady

Overview of this book

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Introducing GitLab
Introducing GitLab
Version control systems and Git
Features
Summary
2
Setting Up GitLab
Setting Up GitLab
Requirements
Omnibus on Ubuntu/Debian
Omnibus on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux/Oracle Linux
Manual installation
Setting up HTTPS
Creating accounts on GitLab
Summary
3
GitLab Flow
GitLab Flow
Using Git
GitFlow
GitLab Flow
Summary
4
Issues to Merge Requests
Issues to Merge Requests
Creating projects
Issues
Merge requests
Summary
5
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
How to install GitLab Runner
Adding to our example project
Breaking down .gitlab-ci.yml
Adding .gitlab-ci.yml to our example project
Deconstructing an advanced .gitlab-ci.yml file
GitLab CI/CD web UI
Summary
6
Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)
Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)
Changing code-hosting platform
Moving from another version control system
Summary
7
Advanced and Paid Features
Advanced and Paid Features
Snippets
Wiki
Groups
Mattermost
Self-hosted administration
Issue tracking
Merge request approvals
Summary
8
Introduction To Markdown
Introduction To Markdown
Markdown overview
9
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Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)

So far, we've explored GitLab as a code hosting platform and looked at creating new projects on it. While this is perfect if you're starting out with GitLab in your organization, you may have an existing code-hosting platform, or even use a different version control system for your projects, and are looking at moving to GitLab.

Thankfully, GitLab has recognized this as a barrier to people moving over, and provides a number of easy methods for moving your projects to it as a code-hosting and testing platform. In this chapter, we'll look at the following:

  • Moving to GitLab from GitHub, and more
  • Moving to GitLab from a Git repository
  • Moving from Subversion (SVN) to GitLab
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