NOTICE: This project is no longer maintained. Please check out its successor at https://github.com/NARKOZ/gitlab/

GitLab CLI Tool

Many people prefer to work from the CLI when possible. This tool aims to bring some of the GitLab functionality into the CLI to avoid repeated trips to the web UI.

NOTE

This may not work with GitLab 6.x+. This project is no longer maintained. For a fully-functional, maintained CLI tool look at http://narkoz.github.io/gitlab/

Current version is 2.0.0.

This branch (master) represents current development efforts and may not be 100% stable. Please install via RubyGems and/or checkout tag v2.0.0.

GitLab Versions

This tool has only been tested with the following versions of GitLab. Some or all of the features may or may not work with other versions but they are not officially supported.

• 5.2.0 - See note below.
• 5.1.0
• 5.0.x

Note: 5.2.0 uses a newer version of Grape API framework which caused a regression in all APIs that return raw/blob content. If you are running GitLab 5.2.0, you will need to make a few manual changes to the Gemfile and Gemfile.lock to use GitLab CLI.

1 Stop GitLab

2 Edit ‘Gemfile’ and modify the 2 lines with Grape:

gem "grape", "~> 0.3.1"
gem "grape-entity", "~> 0.2.0"

3 Edit ‘Gemfile.lock’ and modify the 2 lines with Grape:

    grape (0.3.2)
      ...<more stuff here>
    grape-entity (0.2.0)

4 To be safe, run bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres or whatever bundle install command is appropriate for your installation.

5 Start GitLab

Now the GitLab CLI tool should work properly with your installation. I am working with GitLab HQ to find a permanent solution to this regression. Thanks for your patience.

Installation and Setup

How do I get started?

Install from rubygems (Recommended)

1. gem install gitlab_cli

Install from the repo (requires rake and bundler).

1. Clone the repo.
2. rake build
3. rake install (Requires root privileges).

You now have access to the gitlab command.

Required Gems

If you install from rubygems then you will not need to install these required gems yourself. The gem package manager will attempt to install the proper versions for you.

1. thor >= 0.17.0 and < 0.19
2. json >= 1.7.7 and < 1.8
3. rest-client >= 1.6.7 and < 1.7

Required system packages

1. ruby-devel
2. make
3. gcc

How can I find the private token for my user?

Login to your GitLab web UI, go to ‘My Profile’, and select the ‘Account’ tab. Copy the private token from the box and paste into your config, which should be located at ~/.gitlab.yml.

How can I add the repo bin path to my environment PATH variable?

Place it in your ~/.bash_profile file. You should end up with something like this:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/gitlab-cli/repo/bin/

How to use (Commands)

View a list of all the commands you can use to interact with Gitlab CLI, complete with examples.

Commands

Use as a library

Now that Gitlab CLI is distributed as a gem it is increasingly easy to use in your Ruby scripts or applications. Click the link below to see documentation on how to get started using Gitlab CLI as a library.

Use as a library

Issues

If you encounter issues with this project, please find help via one of these avenues.

1. IRC: #gitlab on Freenode - nick dblessing
2. GitHub Issues: Open a new issue here on GitHub

Contributing changes

I welcome all contributions. If you would like to include a new feature or bug fix, simply open a pull request and explain the problem or feature you contributed. I will review the contribution at that point. If you want to discuss fixes or improvements before submitting a pull request, please find me on IRC #gitlab on Freenode or open a GitHub issue.

License

See LICENSE file.