Creating your first project in GitLab
Log in to your GitLab server and follow the steps to create your first project repository:
- Choose
Create a Project
to create a project on the GitLab server. In the project, we will store all our code, configuration, and other information related to our application. - Provide a project name and description. For now, we will create a sample Hello World node application. Our project name is
Sample
. - Next, comes the visibility level of your project; it can be public, internal, or private.
- Public repositories can be cloned by anyone; any logged-in user can clone internal project repositories. To clone a private project, a user needs explicit access to clone the repository.
- For now we will keep it public and check
Initialize repository with a README
for a quick start. - Click on
Create Project
:
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- Clone the project URL:
- If you have Git commands installed on your machine, run the following command to clone the repository to your local machine:Â
$git clone http://35.155.183...