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Gitlab
Overview
The School of Computer Science git server is available at git.socs.uoguelph.ca, and is accessible to all SoCS Students, Faculty and Staff. It uses Gitlab as it's software, with detailed user documentation available at https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/.
SoCS Gitlab offers a mix of self-service and department-provided Groups and Projects.
Tutorials
Gitlab Tutorials are available on Moodle.
How to Start
Logging In
To access the SoCS git service, visit git.socs.uoguelph.ca in a web browser, and log in with your UoG Credentials. Ensure that the “Central Login ID” tab is selected.
Creating your own Project
Create a project by clicking the green “New Project” button at the top right of the window.
Enter a name for your project in the “Project Name” box. While you type here, the “Project Slug” box will automatically be filled.
The “Project URL” section will list your username by default. You should leave this as is, unless you are creating a group project. More information on that can be found in the Gitlab Documentation.
By default your project will be set to Private access. While you can set this to public, please be aware that it may be academic misconduct to make current coursework publicly available. If you need to share your project with other SoCS Students/Instructors, it is best to make a Group Project, and share it with them directly.
Creating your own Group
If you need to manage a number of projects together, you can create a Group.
Course Assignment and Lab Repositories
To make the management of git repositories for code submitted to instructors for marking, SoCS IT can create nested groups and projects for your course. Instructors and TAs get access to an umbrella group containing all groups and projects for their course. Each student then has access to only their own subgroup, which contains a list of projects/repositories as defined by the instructor.
Some example project names are A1, A2, LE1, LabExam, Coursework, but instructors can specify any valid project name.
To request course git groups, send an email to help@socs.uoguelph.ca, indicating the course code, and desired project/repository structure.
Additional Gitlab Features
Below is a list of features available through Gitlab that instructors may find useful