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 1. The Installation guide contains instructions to download an init script and run that on boot. With the init script you can also start GitLab with:
 
-    sudo service gitlab start
+        sudo service gitlab start
 
-or
+  or
 
-    sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart
+        sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart
 
 2. Start it with [Foreman](https://github.com/ddollar/foreman) in development model
 
-    bundle exec foreman start -p 3000
+        bundle exec foreman start -p 3000
 
 3. Start it manually in development mode
 
-    bundle exec rails s
-    bundle exec rake sidekiq:start
+        bundle exec rails s
+        bundle exec rake sidekiq:start
 
 ### Running the tests