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| + | As shown on the pictures right below this text, an other interesting section is the "Issues" system.<br> | ||
| + | It is repository-centric, thus you need to navigate into one for having access to the creation of new issues. | ||
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| + | # The GitLab Issue Tracker is an advanced and complete tool for tracking the evolution of a new idea or the process of solving a problem | ||
| + | # The Issue Board builds on GitLab's existing issue tracking functionality and leverages the power of labels by utilizing them as lists of the scrum board | ||
| + | # Labels allow you to categorize issues or merge requests using descriptive titles like bug, feature request, or docs. Each label also has a customizable color. They allow you to quickly and dynamically filter and manage issues or merge requests you care about, and are visible throughout GitLab in most places where issues and merge requests are located. | ||
| + | # Milestones in GitLab are a way to track issues and merge requests created to achieve a broader goal in a certain period of time. Milestones allow you to organize issues and merge requests into a cohesive group, with an optional start date and an optional due date | ||
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Revision as of 09:42, 11 July 2018
Introduction
GitLab is a web interface that make the sharing of programing code easier through git, a versioning control system.
It works mostly like GitHub, which is its' "hosted by private company" equivalent (hence no one really have complete control over their code location and who can or cannot access it).
We, at GIGA, provide our members with a self hosted, secure and rock solid instance of this tool.
Because it is secure, we chose to activate users "on demand" and so, as a first step of this tutorial, those who wish to access it must send a mail to UDIMED-GIGA providing their ULiège username with the demand to be added to GitLab accesses.
Once done, visit http://app.giga.ulg.ac.be/git/ and use your ULiège credentials to log in, which will send you to that screen.
Web interface
Create a repository
As you can see here :
There are not much to go with as a new member.
Most of the projects being set as "privates", you must request from your PI or any designated IT manager access to your group's repositories.
But, before that, let's take a look at some basics starting with the creation of your own repository.
The address is always created the same way.
From http://app.giga.ulg.ac.be/git/ is added, first, the user's (or group's) name and then repository's name.
Under that "repository name" are also the description, which is most of the time skipped, and last but not least : the visibility levels.
Those being :
- Private - Project access must be granted explicitly to each user.
- Internal - The project can be accessed by any logged in user.
- Public - The project can be accessed without any authentication.
For security reasons -again- we ask the users to set most of their work to private, and create (or change their configuration) public ones only when needed.
For, as an example, when they need to share their code at the end of their PhD or post-doc.
Explore a repository
From there, things can be as much simple as they can become more complex.
As a matter of fact, you can see on the next picture that several informations appear right after creating a repository.
When a new repo is created, are always written the basic terminal commands (for which we will talk later in this tutorial) as well as links for more complete list of commands and all kind of helps.
Added to that are some of the most important informations/links such as the repository's address, needed to clone your repositories in order to work on them, but also the sidebar menu that will allow you to configure it but also to give access to users and/or groups and set their permission levels.
So first, let's create a new (first) file in this repository with the New file button.
Right after the click come a quite lightweight interface.
No tools, just some writing zones to create/modify the file's name and its' content but also a commit which is a bit like a comment related to what you did to one/several files.
Usualy it is of good practice to create a README.md file.
That file is showed by default when someone come to the repository's main page and it uses a gitlab flavored markdown.
See more about it here : https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/technical-writing/markdown-guide/
An interesting feature, like showed on the next picture, is the ability to select and interact with several places of the file at the same time by maintaining CTRL key while clicking to the wanted places.
From there all the keyboard interactions (being writing, deleting, moving with the arrows, etc.) will be applied at each of your selections.
Finaly, our first commit is in place.
The README.md content is, as said before, showed and its' markdown interpreted.
Address of a repository
That spot might be one of the most important ones.
Like told before, GIGA has choosen to put emphazis on security.
Because of that, when working on your repositories you will have to be aware of it.
In fact, when inside GIGA (or through the VPN), you'll just fetch from the SSH address which is the safest way but also the stronger and powerful one.
Thank to this, you'll just need one login-like and that's it : feel free to push, pull, remove datas without any more prompts.
Though once out of our computing infrastructure, if you need some more work without any credentials others that the website's login, you'll need to select the HTTP one.
The only thing that it implies is that, at each command you'll execute (mostly pushes and pulls), it will ask you your website's username and passwords.
Sidebar (setup) of a repository
Now, regarding the setups of a repository, it can be a bit overwhelming. Many options are in there but do not worry, most of them won't be of any use to you so you just have to pay attention at a few.
Let's take a look at that left column (which can be collapsed/expanded at ones' wish) and is related to the repository you are looking at.
Repository
This first menu is all about repositories' informations. In a visual way you can see it's content as :
- The actual files in it
- A commits log, which is (if correctly named/commented when they where done) a way to keep and/or find modifications through time
- A branches log, which contains all forks related to your repository and tells if they where merged or not
- A tags list, sort of bookmarks for your releases. Eg. TAG v1.0
- A chart that allows you to see each members' work on the projects
- "Graph", a visual approach of your whole commits regarding your branches and merges
- A tool to compare two repositories. Eg. Master ~ Fork_01
- Even more statistics/graphs/charts tools (most of the time unused though)
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Issues
As shown on the pictures right below this text, an other interesting section is the "Issues" system.
It is repository-centric, thus you need to navigate into one for having access to the creation of new issues.
- The GitLab Issue Tracker is an advanced and complete tool for tracking the evolution of a new idea or the process of solving a problem
- The Issue Board builds on GitLab's existing issue tracking functionality and leverages the power of labels by utilizing them as lists of the scrum board
- Labels allow you to categorize issues or merge requests using descriptive titles like bug, feature request, or docs. Each label also has a customizable color. They allow you to quickly and dynamically filter and manage issues or merge requests you care about, and are visible throughout GitLab in most places where issues and merge requests are located.
- Milestones in GitLab are a way to track issues and merge requests created to achieve a broader goal in a certain period of time. Milestones allow you to organize issues and merge requests into a cohesive group, with an optional start date and an optional due date
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Wiki
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Snippets
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Terminal interface
Advanced use
Handling big files
One of the newest functionnalities is LFS (as in Large File Storage).
Recently Git was used exclusively for sharing code (hence, small files). But nowaday even code is sometimes used with big filesets, or are provided archives, CD/DVD images, etc.
Because of that have been implemented the ability to do so, by defining (on a project-by-project basis) the file extentions to see as "big files".
Installation
MacOS (Using Homebrew)
brew update brew install git-lfs
Ubuntu
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash sudo apt install git-lfs
Windows
Use the Windows installer here:
https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/releases
Use
Lets take a look at the workflow when you need to check large files into your Git repository with Git LFS. For example, if you want to upload a very large file and check it into your Git repository:
git clone git@app.giga.ulg.ac.be:dummy/my-awesome-project.git cd my-awesome-project git lfs install # initialize the Git LFS project git lfs track "*.tgz" # select the file extensions that you want to treat as large files
Once a certain file extension is marked for tracking as a LFS object you can use Git as usual without having to redo the command to track a file with the same extension:
cp ~/tmp/mybigdataset.tgz . # copy a large file into the current directory git add . # add the large file to the project git commit -am "Added a large file" # commit the file meta data git push origin master # sync the git repo and large file to the GitLab server
And, of course, when wanting to fetch the latest big files from a repository:
git lfs fetch master
More informations :
https://app.giga.ulg.ac.be/git/help/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md