GitLab

1. Access
1.Connect to your tenant workstation using Remote Desktop or FastX.
2.Open a web browser (Firefox or Edge) in your tenant, and type in the url https://<tenant>-git.stronghold.brown.edu/ 
<tenant> should be replaced by your tenant name. In this page, the example tenant is dev7.
The first time you access gitlab, you will get a warning message about the certificate. You just need click the Advanced' button(Figure 1), and then click the Accept the Risk and Continue button (Figure 2). After that, you will land at the Sign In page.
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Figure 1 Certificate Warning
Figure 2 Accept Risk
If the GitLab root user is not created yet, you will be directed to the password page (Figure 3) to set the root password. 
Figure 3 Set Root Password
Enter your username and password to log in (Figure 4)
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To login as the root, click the 'Standard' tab, and then enter the password for the root user
To login as a normal user, click the 'LDAP' tab, and then enter the password for your Brown account
Figure 4 User Login
2. Create a User
A gitlab admin can create a user.
Go to the User tab of the Admin Area (Figure 5), click the New User button
Figure 5 New User
Enter the details of a new user
Name: Full name of the user (Figure 6)
Username: Brown username (Figure 6)
Email: the user's Brown email (Figure 6)
Access (Figure 7)
Admin or Regular
Figure 6  User Details
Figure 7 User Access
3. Create a Group and Add Group Members
A user can create a group and add members. An admin can do these from the Admin area as well.
3.1 Create a Group
Click Groups on the top menu, then click Your Groups (Figure 8)
Figure 8 Select Group
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Click the New Group button (Figure 9)
Enter Group Name, which automatically populates the Group URL(Figure 10)
Normally you want to select Internal for Visibility Level
Click the Create Group button to complete the creation of the new group
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Figure 9 Group List
Figure 10 Create a Group
3.2 Add Group Members
Choose the group you want to add members (Figure 9). 
Click Members on the left hand side (Figure 11). 
Add members to the group (Figure 12)
only Maintainer and Owner are able to actually push into the Master Branch of any project.
 Developers are able to create the own branch of a project, but will need to put in a merge request that will then be approved by someone with higher permission.
Figure 11 Group Management
Figure 12 Group Members
4. Create a Project
Here we create a project at group level to allow everyone in your group access to the project and their necessary permission level.
Go to the group for which the project is to be created for, and then click the New Project button (Figure 11)
Click Create Blan Project (Figure 12)
Enter project details (Figure 13) and then click  the Create Project button
Project Name: the name of your project, which automatically populates Project URL
Visibility Level: normally you want to select 'Internal'
Figure 12 Create a New Project
Figure 13 New Project Details
5. Set up an SSH Key
In order to perform a git push and pull without putting in the username and password, each user will need to setup an ssh key. A user needs do the followings to set up an SSH key:
Windows Workstations
Linux Workstation
Search for git bash on the Start Menu and launch it. This gives you a bash shell for Windows.
Open a regular terminal on the workstation.
1.Open a terminal
2.cd .
3.mkdir .ssh
4.cd .ssh
5.ssh-keygen -t rsa (no need to set a password for your ssh key)
6.add your ssh key
1.Click by your User Name on the top menu bar, and then click the Settings menu (Figure 14)
2.Copying the contents of the id_rsa.pub file (Figure 15) to the key box (Figure 16).
Figure 14 User Settings
Figure 15 id_rsa.pub
Figure 16 Add SSH Keys
6. Common Commands
6.1 Git Global Setup
git config --global user.name "User Name" 
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
6.2 Create a New Repository
git clone [email protected]<tenant>-git.stronghold.brown.edu:groupname/project_name.git 
cd project_name 
touch README.md 
git add README.md 
git commit -m "add README" 
git push -u origin master
6.3 Push an Existing Directory
cd existing_folder 
git init 
git remote add origin [email protected]<tenant>-git.stronghold.brown.edu:groupname/project_name.git 
git add . 
git commit -m "Initial commit" 
git push -u origin master
6.4 Push and Existing Repository
cd existing_repo 
git remote rename origin old-origin 
git remote add origin [email protected]<tenant>-git.stronghold.brown.edu:group/prjoect_name.git 
git push -u origin --all 
git push -u origin --tags

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