The GitLab Experience

I've some experience using GitHub on a windows machine, which made the inital set-up quite simple. However, I was a bit confused about where my repo was located, but that was covered in the Recitation

How to Set-Up GitLab

  1. Open Ubuntu and go to where you want the repo located
    How to download and install Ubuntu for Windows

  2. Create Directory and Initate Gitlab
    mkdir Gitlab
    cd /GitLab
    git config --global user.name "your username "
    git config --global user.email "your email"
    ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your email"

    Paste the public key into GitLab under settings cat ~/.ssh/htmaa.pub (its htmaa or whatever you name the key)

  3. Init Git and Clone Repo
    mkdir htmaa
    cd /htmaa
    mkdir site
    cd /site
    git init
    git remote add Username email (where I am pushing too)
    git clone https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.25/people/yourname

  4. Test to verify if Repo is Working

    5. nedit (may need to install if you dont have it, its a very nice text editor)
    type Hello (pressed save)

  5. Commit New File
    6. git status

    git add . for all uncommited files or git add hello.txt for a specific files
    git commit -m "Leave a comment for yourself"
    git push

  6. VsCode

    7. git push (Open VsCode in from Ubuntu Terminal)
    Inside VS Code, I installed the extension Live Preview for easy html editing

HTML and Web Design

Downloaded Html5 template locally and set it up via VScode (very time consuming).
Moved it into my GitLab repo by going to my repo and copying all the contents from it's location
jackieo@Mobile-ORCHID:~/GitLab/htmaa/site/html$ cp -r ~/GitLab/htmaa/site/test/* ./ (I asked Chatgpt for the line to copy all the contents in the folder)
All icons are from google images clipart