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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)

Wiki

Another powerful and useful feature of GitLab that mirrors some other popular version-control platforms is the option to have project documentation available as a wiki. To access this section, go to a project and click Wiki in the menu on the left side. If you haven't created any wiki pages yet, you should be met with the following information notice and a button to Create your first page:

Click the button to get started and create your wiki homepage. You'll notice that you have a few fields available to fill in. If you have a Title field available, make sure you leave it set to home for your first wiki page, as that's necessary for it to be jumped into when you navigate to the wiki in the project. You have the choice of formats to write your docs in, with markdown, RDoc, and AsciiDoc currently being offered.

Once you've finished creating your wiki page...