This HowTo teaches you how to Use SwarmLab gitea.

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

1. create a new repository

Open Swarmlab Gitea

Use any web browser on your computer to join

1.1. Sign In

SwarmLab Sign-in
Figure 1. Click on "Sign-in"
Proxy Error
Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /user/login.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at git.swarmlab.io Port 3000

Reload Page!!!

1.2. New Repository

1.2.1. step 1

SwarmLab New Repository
Figure 2. New Repository

1.2.2. step 2

SwarmLab New Repository
Figure 3. Create New Repository

2. clone repository

2.1. git clone

2.1.1. copy url

SwarmLab git clone
Figure 4. clone Repositor

2.1.2. paste url

  • On your computer!

git clone
git clone paste-url-here
Install Git
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
git error

The requested URL returned error: 502

Try again!!!

3. workflow

Write Access is ONLY with "SSH Key-Based Authentication" Allowed

SSH Key-Based Authentication

3.1. add & commit

You can propose changes (add it to the Index) using

git add
git add <filename>
git add *

This is the first step in the basic git workflow. To actually commit these changes use

git status

git status
git commit
git commit -a -m "Commit message"

Now the file is committed to the HEAD, but not in your remote repository yet.

3.2. pushing changes

Your changes are now in the HEAD of your local working copy.

To send those changes to your remote repository, execute

git push
git push origin master

Change master to whatever branch you want to push your changes to.

3.3. update

to update your local repository to the newest commit, execute

git pull
git pull origin

in your working directory to fetch and merge remote changes.

3.4. log

in its simplest form, you can study repository history using..

git log
git log

You can add a lot of parameters to make the log look like what you want. To see only the commits of a certain author:

git log
git log --author=bob

To see a very compressed log where each commit is one line:

git log
git log --pretty=oneline

Or maybe you want to see an ASCII art tree of all the branches, decorated with the names of tags and branches:

git log
git log --graph --oneline --decorate --all

See only which files have changed:

git log
git log --name-status

These are just a few of the possible parameters you can use. For more, see git log --help

Write Access is *ONLY* with "SSH Key-Based Authentication" Allowed
Using the SSH protocol, you can connect and authenticate to remote servers and services. With SSH keys, you can connect to Swarmlab.io git Service without supplying your username or password at each visit.

4. links & resources

Git Community Book

A Visual Git Reference