What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing GitLab, is a brief introduction to GitLab and its features. We explore the basic concepts of version control systems and look at Git in particular.

Chapter 2, Setting Up GitLab, covers account creation on GitLab and, for those interested in running their own GitLab server, we go into installation and some basic configuration using both the provided Omnibus packages and a manual install.

Chapter 3, GitLab Flow, delves further into Git, including how to use it, followed by an older best practices workflow for Git projects. This is used to introduce the GitLab flow, a method of working with Git and GitLab for increased efficiency and simplicity.

Chapter 4, Issues to Merge Requests, gets you acquainted ...

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