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GitLab Quick Start Guide
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

by Adam O'Grady
November 2018
Beginner
180 pages
4h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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GitLab and Git

GitLab is built on top of git so that users who are contributing work (editing code, writing chapters, and so on) to a project will have a copy of the project downloaded/checked out/cloned on their local computer. It provides a web interface for handling many of git's more advanced workflows, and recommends a workflow for interacting with git for the best in productivity, efficiency, and ease of use. We'll cover this workflow in a lot more detail in Chapter 3, GitLab Flow, and in Chapter 4, Issues to Merge Requests, where we'll explore the merging of branches in the GitLab user interface.

By acting as a single source of truth for your developers, GitLab can help you avoid conflicts and the double handling of work while maintaining ...

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