Optional software

All services of fredato work entirely without installing any additional software. Optionally, you can install clients for the tools if you don't want to rely on the browser.

Available tools:

Explanation of the tools

Nextcloud Client

The Nextcloud client (as opposed to the browser) allows to keep the remote project in sync with the local file system. If the project consists of mostly large files you should definitely configure the project to not automatically download new files from the remote project.

Git

Git is a tool for file version management.

TortoiseGit

TortoiseGit is a graphical user interface for git. If you intend to work with GitLab more often we recommend you to install TortoiseGit. This installation requires administrator rights, please contact your IT.

Git LFS

Git LFS (Large File System) is a git extension for decoupling large files into their own storage (managed by git LFS). This installation requires administrator rights, please contact your IT.

Install instructions

For Nextcloud Client

This installation requires administrator rights, please contact your IT.

  1. Install the client from https://nextcloud.com/install/open in new window.
  2. Make sure you can reach the Nextcloud page of your project.
  3. Start the app installed in 1.
  4. Click "Login to Nextcloud"/"Bei Nextcloud anmeldenopen in new window".
  5. Insert the base URL from Step 2 (everything after the '.de'; will most probably be: https://nxc-fredato.imbi.uni-freiburg.deopen in new window)
  6. Hit "Next"/"Weiter".
  7. The browser opens and requests you to log in. Use your normal login-data.
  8. Click "Grant access" to grant access to the app.
  9. Now configure the synchronization behavior:
    • Select the Option "Virtual files"/"Virtuelle Dateien" if the project will contain large or a lot of files (project size >500 MB)
    • If it's only a few files or small files, you can go with the 2nd option to synchronize all files with the server.

Since the file management via git is comparably more complicated we just refer to the install instructions at https://git-scm.com/downloadsopen in new window resp. https://tortoisegit.org/download/open in new window. You also need git LFS (Large File System) https://git-lfs.github.com/open in new window