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Repository

Gitopia is a decentralized, censorship-resistant code collaboration platform for hosting and managing git repositories.

A repository contains all of your project's files and each file's revision history. The repository is a unit for developer collaboration. It is the place where people most people come together to build software. Developers share their contributions and interact within a repository.

You can own repositories individually, or you can share ownership of repositories with other people in an organization.


Creating a New Repository

Step 1: Choose Account or DAO

You can create a new repository on your personal account or any DAO where you have sufficient permissions.

Step 2: Log in with your Wallet

To create a new repository on Gitopia you need to be logged in to your Gitopia Wallet and the wallet should contain a sufficient amount of LORE tokens.

Step 3: Click on "Create Repository"

Once the above conditions have been met, you can create a new repository by clicking on Create a Repository icon on the Home Page.


Step 4: Enter Repository Information

  1. You will be taken to a new page where you have to enter information such as Repository Owner, Repository Name and Repository Description.


  1. In the Repository Owner drop-down, you can select the account or the DAO you wish to create the repository on.


  1. Type a short name for your repository in the Repository Name field and, optionally, add a brief description of the repository in the Repository Description field, as shown in the image below.


  1. Once done, click on Create Repository icon to create your new hosted repository on Gitopia.

Step 5: Get Started on Your Project

On the resulting New Repository page, copy the commands shown to get started on your project.

note

Make sure to Install git-remote-gitopia helper so that your git command line can understand gitopia:// transport.

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