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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)

Groups

So far, we've discussed creating and maintaining projects, issues, and merge requests on GitLab as individual users, but if you're in an organization, especially one with multiple independent teams, you'll probably want to explore the Groups features. You can create groups in GitLab (self-hosted or SaaS) to represent your entire organization, departments, teams, or even sets of people relating to particular products or services.

To access groups, click the Groups menu at the top of the screen and select Your groups:

From here, you can click New group and fill out the form to create a new group. Make sure you provide a name and a group path at least, however it's recommended to provide a description to give more context, as well as an avatar to help represent the group in various menus and views. Make sure you also choose the appropriate privacy settings...