Recently, I had to migrate a bigger amount of git repositories from one software to another provider. One requirement was to copy the whole project including commit history and tags. Fortunately, it was easy to automate this process. First of all the former repository needs to be cloned - if not done, yet: 1$ git clone …

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When using tools such as GitLab can cloned via HTTP and SSH. Especially the second choice can be handy if there is no VPN available - but keep in mind, also sending DNS via the jumphost. The first step is establishing a SSH connection leveraging port forwarding: 1$ ssh -A -D 1337 USER@IP -i pinkepank.key Afterwards, …

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GitLab can utilize LDAP to authenticate against a variety of directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services or FreeIPA and Red Hat Identity Management. This post describes configuring and integrating into FreeIPA. By clicking Identity > User Groups > Add within the FreeIPA interface, an …

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When creating RPM packages recently, I had the effect that package names on CentOS 7 were set incorrectly. For example, a package had the name pinkepank-0.6-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm but should have set pinkepank-0.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm instead. As Enterprise Linux derivates (CentOS, Scientific Linux,...) offer binary …

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Some time ago I wrote about GitLab Continuous Integration and explained how code changes can be catched up to create or update software packages on remote systems. In order to communicate with the development systems, GitLab utilizes agents that are availble for plenty of platforms - including Microsoft Windows, we …

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With the new major version 8, GitLab was extended to include a continuous integration (CI) component that was developed as dedicated project until now. While it was necessary to utilize external solutions, such as Jenkins, previously, it it now possible to automatically compile and test managed projects easily. But, …

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GitLab is a very popular alternative to GitHub that is available as free Community Edition for interested hobbyists and smaller companies. For installing the software, there is a script for downloading and installing the particular software packages. If you have a look at the source code of this script, you will see …

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