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# GitLab basics guides
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This section provides resources to help you start working with GitLab and Git by focusing
on the basic features that you will need to use.
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This documentation is split into the following groups:
- [GitLab-specific functionality ](#gitlab-basics ), for basic GitLab features.
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- [General Git functionality ](#working-with-git-from-the-command-line ), for working
with Git in conjunction with GitLab.
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## GitLab basics
The following are guides to basic GitLab functionality:
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- [Create and add your SSH public key ](create-your-ssh-keys.md ), for enabling Git over SSH.
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- [Create a project ](create-project.md ), to start using GitLab.
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- [Create a group ](../user/group/index.md#create-a-new-group ), to combine and administer
projects together.
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- [Create a branch ](create-branch.md ), to make changes to files stored in a project's repository.
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- [Feature branch workflow ](feature_branch_workflow.md ).
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- [Fork a project ](fork-project.md ), to duplicate projects so they can be worked on in parallel.
- [Add a file ](add-file.md ), to add new files to a project's repository.
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- [Create an issue ](../user/project/issues/managing_issues.md#create-a-new-issue ),
to start collaborating within a project.
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- [Create a merge request ](../user/project/merge_requests/creating_merge_requests.md ), to request changes made in a branch
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be merged into a project's repository.
- See how these features come together in the [GitLab Flow introduction video ](https://youtu.be/InKNIvky2KE )
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and [GitLab Flow page ](../topics/gitlab_flow.md ).
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## Working with Git from the command line
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If you're familiar with Git on the command line, you can interact with your GitLab
projects just as you would with any other Git repository.
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These resources will help you get further acclimated to working on the command line.
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- [Start using Git on the command line ](start-using-git.md ), for some simple Git commands.
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- [Command line basics ](command-line-commands.md ), to create and edit files using the command line.
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More Git resources are available in GitLab's [Git documentation ](../topics/git/index.md ).
