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GitLab: self hosted Git management software
GitLab allows you to
- keep your code secure on your own server
- manage repositories, users and access permissions
- communicate through issues, line-comments and wiki pages
- perform code review with merge requests
GitLab is
- powered by Ruby on Rails
- completely free and open source (MIT license)
- used by more than 10.000 organizations to keep their code secure
Code status
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ci.gitlab.org (master branch)
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travis-ci.org (master branch) -
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Resources
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GitLab.org community site: Homepage Screenshots Blog Demo
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GitLab.com commercial services: Homepage Subscription Consultancy GitLab Cloud Blog
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GitLab CI: Readme of the GitLab open-source continuous integration server
Requirements
- Ubuntu/Debian**
- ruby 1.9.3
- MySQL
- git
- gitlab-shell
- redis
** More details are in the requirements doc
Installation
Official production installation
Follow the installation guide for production server.
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Installation guide for latest stable release (5.0) - Recommended
Official development installation
If you want to contribute, please first read our Contributing Guidelines and then we suggest you to use the Vagrant virtual machine project to get an environment working with all dependencies.
Unsupported production installation
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GitLab recipes for setup on different platforms
New versions and upgrading
Each month on the 22th a new version is released together with an upgrade guide.
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Features that will be in the next release are listed on the feedback and suggestions forum with the status "started".
Run in production mode
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The Installation guide contains instructions on how to download an init script and run it automatically on boot. You can also start the init script manually:
sudo service gitlab start
or by directly calling the script
sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab start
Run in development mode
Start it with Foreman
bundle exec foreman start -p 3000
or start each component separately
bundle exec rails s
bundle exec rake sidekiq:start
Run the tests
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Seed the database
bundle exec rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:seed_fu RAILS_ENV=test -
Run all tests
bundle exec rake gitlab:test -
Rspec unit and functional tests
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Spinach integration tests
bundle exec rake spinach
GitLab interfaces
Getting help
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Troubleshooting guide contains solutions to common problems.
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Support forum is the best place to ask questions. For example you can use it if you have questions about: permission denied errors, invisible repos, can't clone/pull/push or with web hooks that don't fire. Please search for similar issues before posting your own, there's a good chance somebody else had the same issue you have now and had it resolved. There are a lot of helpful GitLab users there who may be able to help you quickly. If your particular issue turns out to be a bug, it will find its way from there to a fix.
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Feedback and suggestions forum is the place to propose and discuss new features for GitLab.
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Support subscription connect you to the knowledge of GitLab experts that will resolve your issues and answer your questions.
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Consultancy allows you hire GitLab exports for installations, upgrades and customizations.
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Contributing guide describes how to submit pull requests and issues. Pull requests and issues not in line with the guidelines in this document will be closed without comment.