Background
A few posts back spoke on the very minimalist design of GitHub’s Snippet functionality.
I have been meaning to look into GitLab’s support for snippets.
But, first, let us register for GitLab.
GitLab
Registration
Outline
Registering for GitLab involves very few steps.
Here we go.
- Register
- First name
- Last name
- Username
- Password
- Email
- Receive Email
- Respond to Email
- Personalize
- Select a role
- I am signing up for GibLab because
- Who will be using GitLab
- My Company/team
- Just Me
- What will you like to do
- Create a new project
- Join a project
- Create or Import Your First Project
- Option:- Create Project
- Group Name
- Project Name
- Option:- Import Project
- Import From
- GitLab
- GitHub
- BitBucket Cloud
- BitBucket Server
- Gitea
- Repo By URL
- Manifest File
- Import From
- Option:- Create Project
Images
Register
Personalize
Personalize – Initial
Personalize – Revised
Create or Import Your First Project
Tab – Create
Tab – Import
Summary
It is very easy to signup for GitLab.
Unfortunately, upon signing up and using the tool for the first time, the system prompts you to create a new project or import an existing project.
We chose to close the browser’s tab on this modal option.