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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we've looked at how to apply Git to your software development process and we've covered most of the basic commands, including add, commit, push, pull, branch, and merge. We also looked at GitFlow, a recommended workflow for Git software projects, and how to handle branching and merging correctly.

In contrast to the complexities of GitFlow, we also looked at GitLab flow, which is an alternate recommended flow that's been designed for simplicity and is adaptable to different environments.

In the next chapter, we'll look at using GitLab in our work, using issues to sort out items of work and performing merge requests to bring in changes that we've made.