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# Repository
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A [repository](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository)
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is what you use to store your codebase in GitLab and change it with version control.
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A repository is part of a [project](../index.md), which has a lot of other features.
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## Create a repository
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To create a new repository, all you need to do is
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[create a new project](../../../gitlab-basics/create-project.md) or
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[fork an existing project](forking_workflow.md).
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Once you create a new project, you can add new files via UI
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(read the section below) or via command line.
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To add files from the command line, follow the instructions that will
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be presented on the screen when you create a new project, or read
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through them in the [command line basics](../../../gitlab-basics/start-using-git.md)
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documentation.
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> **Important:**
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For security reasons, when using the command line, we strongly recommend
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that you [connect with GitLab via SSH](../../../ssh/README.md).
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## Files
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Use a repository to store your files in GitLab. In [GitLab 12.10 and later](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/33806),
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you'll see on the repository's file tree an icon next to the file name
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according to its extension:
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### Create and edit files
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Host your codebase in GitLab repositories by pushing your files to GitLab.
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You can either use the user interface (UI), or connect your local computer
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with GitLab [through the command line](../../../gitlab-basics/command-line-commands.md#start-working-on-your-project).
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To configure [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md) to build, test, and deploy
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your code, add a file called [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/quick_start/README.md)
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to your repository's root.
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**From the user interface:**
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GitLab's UI allows you to perform lots of Git commands without having to
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touch the command line. Even if you use the command line regularly, sometimes
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it's easier to do so [via GitLab UI](web_editor.md):
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- [Create a file](web_editor.md#create-a-file)
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- [Upload a file](web_editor.md#upload-a-file)
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- [File templates](web_editor.md#template-dropdowns)
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- [Create a directory](web_editor.md#create-a-directory)
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- [Start a merge request](web_editor.md#tips)
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- [Find file history](git_history.md)
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- [Identify changes by line (Git blame)](git_blame.md)
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**From the command line:**
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To get started with the command line, please read through the
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[command line basics documentation](../../../gitlab-basics/command-line-commands.md).
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### Find files
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Use GitLab's [file finder](file_finder.md) to search for files in a repository.
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### Supported markup languages and extensions
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GitLab supports a number of markup languages (sometimes called [lightweight
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markup languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language))
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that you can use for the content of your files in a repository. They are mostly
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used for documentation purposes.
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Just pick the right extension for your files and GitLab will render them
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according to the markup language.
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| Markup language | Extensions |
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| --------------- | ---------- |
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| Plain text | `txt` |
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| [Markdown](../../markdown.md) | `mdown`, `mkd`, `mkdn`, `md`, `markdown` |
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| [reStructuredText](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html) | `rst` |
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| [AsciiDoc](../../asciidoc.md) | `adoc`, `ad`, `asciidoc` |
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| [Textile](https://textile-lang.com/) | `textile` |
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| [rdoc](http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html) | `rdoc` |
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| [Org mode](https://orgmode.org/) | `org` |
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| [creole](http://www.wikicreole.org/) | `creole` |
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| [MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) | `wiki`, `mediawiki` |
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### Repository README and index files
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When a `README` or `index` file is present in a repository, its contents will be
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automatically pre-rendered by GitLab without opening it.
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They can either be plain text or have an extension of a
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[supported markup language](#supported-markup-languages-and-extensions):
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Some things to note about precedence:
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1. When both a `README` and an `index` file are present, the `README` will always
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take precedence.
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1. When more than one file is present with different extensions, they are
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ordered alphabetically, with the exception of a file without an extension
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which will always be last in precedence. For example, `README.adoc` will take
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precedence over `README.md`, and `README.rst` will take precedence over
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`README`.
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### Jupyter Notebook files
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[Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/) Notebook (previously IPython Notebook) files are used for
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interactive computing in many fields and contain a complete record of the
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user's sessions and include code, narrative text, equations, and rich output.
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[Read how to use Jupyter notebooks with GitLab.](jupyter_notebooks/index.md)
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### OpenAPI viewer
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/19515) in GitLab 12.6.
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GitLab can render OpenAPI specification files with its file viewer, provided
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their filenames include `openapi` or `swagger` and their extension is `yaml`,
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`yml`, or `json`. The following examples are all correct:
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- `openapi.yml`
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- `openapi.yaml`
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- `openapi.json`
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- `swagger.yml`
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- `swagger.yaml`
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- `swagger.json`
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- `gitlab_swagger.yml`
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- `openapi_gitlab.yml`
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- `OpenAPI.YML`
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- `openapi.Yaml`
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- `openapi.JSON`
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- `openapi.gitlab.yml`
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- `gitlab.openapi.yml`
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Then, to render them:
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1. Navigate to the OpenAPI file in your repository in GitLab's UI.
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1. Click the "Display OpenAPI" button which is located between the "Display source"
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and "Edit" buttons (when an OpenAPI file is found, it replaces the
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"Display rendered file" button).
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## Branches
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For details, see [Branches](branches/index.md).
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## Commits
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When you [commit your changes](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository),
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you are introducing those changes to your branch.
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Via command line, you can commit multiple times before pushing.
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- **Commit message:**
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A commit message is important to identity what is being changed and,
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more importantly, why. In GitLab, you can add keywords to the commit
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message that will perform one of the actions below:
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- **Trigger a GitLab CI/CD pipeline:**
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If you have your project configured with [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md),
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you will trigger a pipeline per push, not per commit.
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- **Skip pipelines:**
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You can add to you commit message the keyword
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[`[ci skip]`](../../../ci/yaml/README.md#skip-pipeline)
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and GitLab CI/CD will skip that pipeline.
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- **Cross-link issues and merge requests:**
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[Cross-linking](../issues/crosslinking_issues.md#from-commit-messages)
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is great to keep track of what's is somehow related in your workflow.
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If you mention an issue or a merge request in a commit message, they will be shown
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on their respective thread.
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- **Cherry-pick a commit:**
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In GitLab, you can
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[cherry-pick a commit](../merge_requests/cherry_pick_changes.md#cherry-picking-a-commit)
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right from the UI.
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- **Revert a commit:**
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Easily [revert a commit](../merge_requests/revert_changes.md#reverting-a-commit)
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from the UI to a selected branch.
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- **Sign a commit:**
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Use GPG to [sign your commits](gpg_signed_commits/index.md).
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## Project and repository size
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A project's size is reported on the project's **Details** page. The reported size is
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updated every 15 minutes at most, so may not reflect recent activity. The displayed files size includes repository files, artifacts, and LFS.
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The project size may differ slightly from one instance to another due to compression, housekeeping, and other factors.
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[Repository size limit](../../admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md) may be set by admins. GitLab.com's repository size limit [is set by GitLab](../../gitlab_com/index.md#repository-size-limit).
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## Contributors
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All the contributors to your codebase are displayed under your project's **Settings > Contributors**.
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They are ordered from the collaborator with the greatest number
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of commits to the fewest, and displayed on a nice graph:
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## Repository graph
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The repository graph displays the history of the repository network visually, including branches and merges. This can help you visualize the Git flow strategy used in the repository:
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Find it under your project's **Repository > Graph**.
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## Repository Languages
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For the default branch of each repository, GitLab will determine what programming languages
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were used and display this on the projects pages. If this information is missing, it will
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be added after updating the default branch on the project. This process can take up to 5
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minutes.
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Not all files are detected, among others; documentation,
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vendored code, and most markup languages are excluded. This behavior can be
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adjusted by overriding the default. For example, to enable `.proto` files to be
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detected, add the following to `.gitattributes` in the root of your repository.
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```plaintext
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*.proto linguist-detectable=true
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```
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## Locked files **(PREMIUM)**
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Use [File Locking](../file_lock.md) to
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lock your files to prevent any conflicting changes.
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## Repository's API
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You can access your repos via [repository API](../../../api/repositories.md).
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## Clone in Apple Xcode
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/45820) in GitLab 11.0
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Projects that contain a `.xcodeproj` or `.xcworkspace` directory can now be cloned
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in Xcode using the new **Open in Xcode** button, located next to the Git URL
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used for cloning your project. The button is only shown on macOS.
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## Download Source Code
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> Support for directory download was [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/24704) in GitLab 11.11.
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The source code stored in a repository can be downloaded from the UI.
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By clicking the download icon, a dropdown will open with links to download the following:
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- **Source code:**
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allows users to download the source code on branch they're currently
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viewing. Available extensions: `zip`, `tar`, `tar.gz`, and `tar.bz2`.
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- **Directory:**
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only shows up when viewing a sub-directory. This allows users to download
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the specific directory they're currently viewing. Also available in `zip`,
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`tar`, `tar.gz`, and `tar.bz2`.
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- **Artifacts:**
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allows users to download the artifacts of the latest CI build.
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