Just the Source

Now that you have a GitLab account setup and tweaked your user profile and preferences, let’s now look at how to manage your source code. This is, after all, the primary feature of GitLab. In this chapter, we’ll first look at how to update source files and directories using GitLab’s Web IDE. From there, we’ll look at how we can use GitLab to manage source file changes during the normal development cycle using branches and merge requests. Since conflicting changes may arise between two or more developers, we’ll also take a look at how to resolve those conflicts. We will finish off with a brief discussion on various branching strategies that different teams use.