docs: Add gitlab examples to docs

Author: tony

docs/config-generation.md

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+(config-generation)=
+
+# Config generation
+
+As a temporary solution for  `vcspull` not being able to generate {ref}`configuration` through scanning directories or fetching them via API (e.g. gitlab, github, etc), you can write scripts to generate configs in the mean time.
+
+(config-generation-gitlab)=
+
+## Collect repos from Gitlab
+
+Contributed by Andreas Schleifer ([email protected])
+
+Limitation on both, no pagination support in either, so only returns the
+first page of repos (as of Feb 26th this is 100).
+
+(config-generation-gitlab-shell)=
+
+### Shell script version
+
+_Requires [jq] and [curl]._
+
+```{literalinclude} ../scripts/generate_gitlab.sh
+:language: shell
+
+```
+
+```{code-block} shell
+export GITLAB_TOKEN=mySecretToken
+/path/to/generate_gitlab.sh gitlab.mycompany.com desired_namespace
+```
+
+To be executed from the path where the repos should later be stored. It will use
+the current working directory as a "prefix" for the path used in the new config file.
+
+Optional: Set config file output path as additional argument (_will overwrite_)
+
+```{code-block} shell
+export GITLAB_TOKEN=mySecretToken
+/path/to/generate_gitlab.sh gitlab.mycompany.com desired_namespace /path/to/config.yaml
+```
+
+**Demonstration**
+
+Assume current directory of _/home/user/workspace/_ and script at _/home/user/workspace/scripts/generate_gitlab.sh_:
+
+```{code-block} shell
+./scripts/generate_gitlab.sh gitlab.com vcs-python
+```
+
+New file _vcspull.yaml_:
+
+```{code-block} yaml
+/my/workspace/:
+  g:
+    url: 'git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/g.git'
+    remotes:
+      origin: 'ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/g.git'
+  libvcs:
+    url: 'git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/libvcs.git'
+    remotes:
+      origin: 'ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/libvcs.git'
+  vcspull:
+    url: 'git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/vcspull.git'
+    remotes:
+      origin: 'ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/vcspull.git'
+```
+
+[jq]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
+[curl]: https://curl.se/
+
+(config-generation-gitlab-python)=
+
+### Python version
+
+_Requires [requests] and [pyyaml]._
+
+This confirms file overwrite, if already exists. It also requires passing the protocol/schema
+of the gitlab mirror, e.g. `https://gitlab.com` instead of `gitlab.com`.
+
+```{literalinclude} ../scripts/generate_gitlab.py
+:language: python
+
+```
+
+**Demonstration**
+
+Assume current directory of _/home/user/workspace/_ and script at _/home/user/workspace/scripts/generate_gitlab.sh_:
+
+```{code-block} sh
+./scripts/generate_gitlab.py https://gitlab.com vcs-python
+```
+
+```{code-block} yaml
+/my/workspace/vcs-python:
+  g:
+    remotes:
+      origin: ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/g.git
+    url: git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/g.git
+  libvcs:
+    remotes:
+      origin: ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/libvcs.git
+    url: git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/libvcs.git
+  vcspull:
+    remotes:
+      origin: ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/vcspull.git
+    url: git+ssh://[email protected]/vcs-python/vcspull.git
+```
+
+[requests]: https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
+[pyyaml]: https://pyyaml.org/
+
+### Contribute your own
+
+Post yours on <https://github.com/vcs-python/vcspull/discussions> or create a PR to add
+yours to scripts/ and be featured here

docs/index.md

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 quickstart
 configuration
+config-generation
 cli
 developing
 history

docs/quickstart.md

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 ```{seealso}
 
-{ref}`configuration`.
+{ref}`configuration` and {ref}`config-generation`.
 
 ```