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It's a VM on medico, with a relatively small HDD. It's a VM on medico, with a small HDD; a separate partition is available for `/var` to avoid filling the disk with logs.
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GitLab itself was installed from a .deb acquired from the GitLab website, which installs to /opt/gitlab. This was symlinked to /home/opt/gitlab (because / was a small partition). GitLab itself was installed from a .deb acquired from the GitLab website, which installs to `/opt/gitlab`.
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GitLab has been configured (using the config file in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`) to store repositories in `/home/gitlab-repositories`, which (because I'm lazy) is a symlink to
`/
services/gitlab`. This is a mount of services:/services/gitlab (the VM is only allowed access to this subdir, safety first.)
It's now kept up to date using the [[https://about.gitlab.com/update/|GitLab package server]].

GitLab has been configured (using the config file in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`) to store repositories in `/services/gitlab`. This is a mount of services:/services/gitlab (the VM is only allowed access to this subdir, safety first.)
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* `gitlab-ctl start` - Start the service
* `gitlab-ctl stop` - Stop the service
* `gitlab-ctl reconfigure` - Apply any configuration changes
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== Editing the display ==
I have done some minor patching to the GitLab code to customise the login page.
This was done in the GitLab rails application directory : `/home/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails`. This has been turned into a git repo to trace changes and upgrades.
 * `gitlab-ctl start` - Start the services
 * `gitlab-ctl stop` - Stop the services
 * `gitlab-ctl reconfigure` - Apply any changes from `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`
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To apply changes to the page templates, stopping+starting the services should suffice. If any images or CSS are changed, then you need to regenerate the assets by running the following command from the rails app root.
`RAILS_ENV=production PATH=/home/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/:$PATH ./bin/bundle exec rake assets:precompile`
Documentation of gitlab maintenance can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/maintenance/README.html

[TPG] has set up a "GitLab" instance on a VM, running at https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/

GitLab is a git repository manager, similar to GitHub, and looks to be a good replacement for gitosis+gitweb.

Setup

It's a VM on medico, with a small HDD; a separate partition is available for /var to avoid filling the disk with logs.

GitLab itself was installed from a .deb acquired from the GitLab website, which installs to /opt/gitlab.

It's now kept up to date using the GitLab package server.

GitLab has been configured (using the config file in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb) to store repositories in /services/gitlab. This is a mount of services:/services/gitlab (the VM is only allowed access to this subdir, safety first.)

Management

To start/restart/stop the GitLab service, use the gitlab-ctl tool.

  • gitlab-ctl start - Start the services

  • gitlab-ctl stop - Stop the services

  • gitlab-ctl reconfigure - Apply any changes from /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

Documentation of gitlab maintenance can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/maintenance/README.html