Getting Started

Instantiating Repositories

bash git init

bash git clone <url>

Central Repos

bash git init --bare project-name.git

Instantiate workflow with clone

  1. Create a project in your user namespace.
  2. Choose to import from 'Any Repo by URL' and use https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/training-examples.git.
  3. Create a 'Workspace' directory in your home directory.
  4. Clone the 'training-examples' project.
mkdir ~/workspace
cd ~/workspace

git clone git@gitlab.example.com:<username>/training-examples.git
cd training-examples

Git concepts

Untracked files

New files that Git has not been told to track previously.

Working area

Files that have been modified but are not committed.

Staging area

Modified files that have been marked to go in the next commit.

Committing Workflow

  1. Edit 'edit_this_file.rb' in 'training-examples'
  2. See it listed as a changed file (working area)
  3. View the differences
  4. Stage the file
  5. Commit
  6. Push the commit to the remote
  7. View the Git log
# Edit `edit_this_file.rb`
git status
git diff
git add <file>
git commit -m 'My change'
git push origin master
git log

Note