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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)

Issue tracking

So far, we've gone through the basic life cycle of issues and how to create them, but if you upgrade to an enterprise subscription to GitLab, you can gain access to advanced features that can help you manage projects with greater efficiency. Tools such as related issues, burndown charts, and issue weighting can all be used to improve your workflow and power up your team.

Related issues

If you're managing a project with many users, especially a public-facing project, you're probably used to users creating issues before checking for any similar issues that are already open or issues that may appear unrelated but have a similar cause. Thankfully, GitLab's Starter/Bronze level of enterprise subscription...