Using GitHub Desktop as a Client for GITLAB and other GIT Services
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Github Desktop is the official GitHub client for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It is available for free on their website: https://desktop.github.com/, and it simplifies the process of synchronizing, updating, and maintaining your projects in GIT.
Through a graphical interface, you can use all the GIT commands and switch between repositories.
What they haven’t told you is that you can use this free client to synchronize all your projects on other platforms compatible with GIT, such as: Gitlab, Bitbucket…
Performing this synchronization is quite simple.
- We need to download the free Github Desktop client from this URL: https://desktop.github.com/
- Once installed, we can choose to add or not the requested data for the GitHub account.
- Now we click on File > Clone Repository (Ctrl+Shift+O)
- We choose the URL option.
- The program will ask for the data of the GIT service you are using, enter them, and they will be saved in the system.
Now you can manage your GIT project using the free GitHub client
