Gitlab

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Version management of documents and code

Category: Tags: , Target group: Students, TeachersInstitution: University Computer Center (URZ)

Access to the service

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About Gitlab

For whom

All members of the University of Jena, external persons via guest account

Description

The Friedrich Schiller University's GitLab instance is the central place where students, staff and guests can work together on projects, share and manage code, and collaborate on presentations and papers. Private and public projects are possible. A public repository can serve as a source of knowledge. This allows code and project documentation to be made accessible to other developers or interested third parties.

It is also possible to supplement the collaborative working environment with wiki and issue tracker functions. As a decentralized versioning system, Gitlab makes it possible to keep track of constant changes. By taking a detailed look at the history, changes made (including the date and author of each change) can be tracked. This enables controlled development.

Possible applications and technical functions

Is your team developing software and your source code is constantly changing or are you working on publications in LaTeX? With Gitlab you can:

  • Presentation of project websites
  • Reset to previous versions
  • Easy merging of individual changes
  • Wiki functionalities
  • Issue tracker
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)
  • Storage of Docker containers (Docker registry)

Good to know

Gitlab is not intended for the storage of larger data. For this purpose, the University Computer Center offers further Services for storing datae.g. for working in groups, using servers or hosting databases.

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