To create a project in GitLab:
- On the top bar, select Menu > Project
- Select Create new project
- Enter the project details:
- In the Project name field, enter the name of your project. You can use spaces, hyphens, underscores, and emoji. You cannot use special characters. After you enter the name, the Project slug populates
- In the Project slug field, enter the path to your project. The GitLab instance uses the slug as the URL path to the project. To change the slug, first enter the project name, then change the slug
- In the Project description (optional) field, enter the description of your project’s dashboard
- To modify the project’s viewing and access rights for users, change the Visibility Level
- To create README file so that the Git repository is initialized, has a default branch, and can be cloned, select Initialize repository with a README
- Select Create project