Introduction to GitHub

GitHub is designed to help people better manage open-source projects.
The open source version control software that lets multiple people make separate changes to codes at the same time.
GitHub has free public account, but for private repositories, should pay monthly & it’s not free.

Introduction to GitHub

After creating GitHub account, you can create a Repository on it, and push your local repository to GitHub or pull repository from GitHub to your local repository.

q Create Personal Access Token on GitHub: (from 13 August 2021)

From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings => Personal Access Token => Generate New Token (Give your password) => Fill-up the form => click Generate token => Copy the generated Token, it will be something like below:

ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta

Use that token as your password when you want to push/pull or clone something.

Push a Local Repo to GitHub

For pushing your Local Repo to a GitHub Repository, do below steps:

1.First, create a repository in your GitHub and copy its HTTPS address:

2.Then, in your local repo, use below command to push it to you GitHub Repo.

				
					# git remote add [alias] https://github.com/hamedkhanmohammadi/new-repo.git
# git remote –v
# git push –u origin master

Clone or pull a Repo from GitHub

For Cloning a GitHub Repo to your Local Git Repository, do below steps:

1.Copy SSH or HTTPS code and use git clone command:

				
					$ git clone https://github.com/hamedkhanmohammadi/gittest.git
$ cd gittest
$ vi README : change something
$ git add –A
$ git commit –m “test”
$ git push origin master

1.If you changed something in GitHub editor, you can use git pull command.

				
					$ git pull origin master

Introduction to GitLab

Installing GitLab-CE Locally

Here is the steps of installing GitLab Community Edition on Ubuntu server Locally:

STEP-1. Installing the Dependencies:

				
					# apt install curl openssh-server postfix

STEP-2. Installing GitLab:

				
					# wget --content-disposition https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/packages/debian/buster/gitlab-ce_14.4.0-ce.0_arm64.deb/download.deb
# apt install ./gitlab-ce_14.4.0-ce.0_arm64.deb

STEP-3. Adjusting the Firewall Rules:

				
					# ufw http https OpenSSH

STEP-4. Editing the GitLab Configuration File:

				
					# vi /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb    -->   edit external_url http://gitlab.example.com
# gitlab-ctl reconfigure

STEP-5. Change Password of Root User for Gitlab-CE