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User account setup

User account setup - Git Tutorial

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User account setup

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- [Instructor] When starting out with GitLab, the first thing a team should do is setup user accounts. User accounts allow team members to log into the tool and are used to control their access and privileges on specific projects. Within GitLab there's two way to create an account. First, a team member can register for an account on their own through the splash page for the tool. Here you see they have to fill out a simple form. So what we're going to do is build a maintainer account. The maintainer account is going to represent our team member who has commit privileges on every branch within the repository. They're going to be the folks performing the merge request from the contributors. So we go ahead and set up our maintainer account. And we need to provide some simple information such as their email, as well as a password. I'm going to go ahead and simply use password as their password to keep things simple. Once we hit the register button, you'll see that we are logged in as our…

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