GitLab to the Budding Developer

[muddpup64]

I'm gonna start off by saying if this is the wrong place to post this please let me know. I've spent my whole life posting in the general help section and I don't really have a frame of reference for the kind of material acceptable to post here. So here goes:


I am a student computer engineer who's goal, other than school, is to extract as much info about computers as I can. A couple of days ago I attended a Meetup about Raspberry Pi. Well the instructor gave us a bunch of fantastic source material accessible through GitLab. Problem is I can not figure it out how to extract this information for the life of me. I followed the instructions here: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#ubuntu1604 and then proceeded to create a SSH key for my local machine and pass it over to my GitLab profile but from here I don't know what to do. The only info I can find, or at least I'm pretty sure, is how to clone your file over to the repository.

Thanks for your guys' help!

[TheFu]

a) there are a few "Introduction to Git" youtube videos. If you don't have any experience with git, the 45min would be worth your time.

b) there is a free PDF book - "ProGit" - find that and read it. I've setup a git server for my little company, but we don't use a GUI for our repos - just ssh+git. All our guys have strong Unix backgrounds, so there wasn't any need to explain file/directory permissions to them. They found a git cheatsheet online somewhere and figured it out.

Most repos don't require ssh keys to allow cloning. Just sayin'.