Setting up a Team Project Repo on GitLab

Setting up a team project repository

  • Initializing GitLab Repos
  • Collaborations
  • Issues & Branching
  • SSH Setup

Initializing GitLab Repos

  1. Navigate to the Earth Systems Data Science in the Cloud 4 GitLab Group page;
  2. One team member should click on “New Project” in the upper right corner of the page;
  3. Select “Create Blank Project”;
  4. Name your project!
  5. Share your project repo with the instructors and team members.

Collaborations

GitLab is a phenomenal tool for collaborating on coding projects. “Issues” and “Branching” are especially well-suited for these tasks.

Issues & Branching

Let’s review “Issues” (ie, what GitLab calls “To Do” tasks) and their associated “Branching” functionality…

Pulling from and Pushing to GitLab with SSH

GitLab: Use SSH keys to communicate with GitLab

GitHub: Connecting to GitHub with SSH

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