gitlabhq: A Ruby repository from dedatech

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 25.000 organizations to keep their code secure

Code status

on ci.gitlab.org (master branch)
on travis-ci.org (master branch)
this button can be yellow (small updates are available) but must not be red (a security fix or an important update is available), gems are updated in major releases of GitLab.

Resources

GitLab.org community site: Homepage | Screenshots | Blog | Demo
GitLab.com commercial services: Homepage | Subscription | Consultancy | GitLab Cloud | Blog
GitLab CI: Readme of the GitLab open-source continuous integration server

Requirements

Ubuntu/Debian**
ruby 1.9.3
MySQL or PostgreSQL
git
gitlab-shell
redis

** More details are in the requirements doc

Installation

Official production installation

Installation guide for a production server

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.

Vagrant virtual machine for development

Unofficial production installations

GitLab recipes repository with unofficial guides for using GitLab with different software (operating systems, webservers, etc.) than the official version.
Installation guides public wiki with unofficial guides to install GitLab on different operating systems.
BitNami one-click installers
TurnKey Linux virtual appliance

New versions and upgrading

Since 2011 GitLab is released on the 22nd of every month. Every new release includes an upgrade guide.

Upgrade guides
Changelog
Features that will be in the next releases are listed on the feedback and suggestions forum with the status "started" and completed.

Run in production mode

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

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

  All RSpec tests: bundle exec rake spec

  Single RSpec file: bundle exec rspec spec/controllers/commit_controller_spec.rb

Spinach integration tests

  All Spinach tests: bundle exec rake spinach

  Single Spinach test: bundle exec spinach features/project/issues/milestones.feature

GitLab interfaces

Getting help

Maintenance policy specifies what versions are supported.
Troubleshooting guide contains solutions to common problems.
Mailing list and Stack Overflow are the best places 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 has resolved it. 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.
Unofficial #gitlab IRC on Freenode is another way to get in touch with other GitLab users who may be able to help you.
Feedback and suggestions forum is the place to propose and discuss new features for GitLab.
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.
Support subscription connects you to the knowledge of GitLab experts that will resolve your issues and answer your questions.
Consultancy allows you hire GitLab experts for installations, upgrades and customizations.

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