GitLab basics guides

This section provides resources to help you start with GitLab by focusing on basic functionality.

This documentation is split into the following groups:

• GitLab-specific functionality, for basic GitLab features.
• General Git functionality, for working with Git in conjunction with GitLab.

GitLab basics

The following are guides to basic GitLab functionality:

• Create and add your SSH Keys, for enabling Git over SSH.
• Create a project, to start using GitLab.
• Create a group, to combine and administer projects together.
• Create a branch, to make changes to files stored in a project's repository.
• Fork a project, to duplicate projects so they can be worked on in parallel.
• Add a file, to add new files to a project's repository.
• Add an image, to add new images to a project's repository.
• Create an issue, to start collaborating within a project.
• Create a merge request, to request changes made in a branch be merged into a project's repository.

Git basics

If you're unfamiliar with the command line, these resources will help:

• Command line basics, for those unfamiliar with the command line interface.
• Start using Git on the command line, for some simple Git commands.

More Git resources are available at GitLab's Git documentation.