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Description Templates

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By adding a description template to your issues or merge requests, users who create a new issue or merge request can select a template to help them to communicate effectively.

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Task Lists

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Use task lists in issues, merge requests, and epics to manage tasks and track their completion using checkboxes.

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File Attachments

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Upload file attachments (including images) to issues, merge requests, and epics, to communicate ideas beyond text.

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Award Emoji

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Award emoji in issues, merge requests, and epics, for more expressive communications, and to indicate upvotes and downvotes.

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GitLab Flavored Markdown

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GitLab uses ‘GitLab Flavored Markdown’ (GFM). It extends the standard Markdown in a few significant ways to add some useful functionality.

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Threaded Discussions

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Collaborate with threaded discussions in issues, merge requests, and epics.

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Filterable System Activity

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View system activity to see a history of changes to issues, merge requests, and epics. Filter by comments only or history only.

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Track Title Changes

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Track title changes in the system activity of issues, merge requests, and epics.

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Assignee

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Assign a user to an issue or a merge request, indicating responsibility for it.

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Lock Discussion

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Lock down continued discussion in an issue or merge request as a Maintainer role or higher, to prevent further abuse, spam, or unproductive collaboration.

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Bulk Edit Merge Requests

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Edit labels and milestones on multiple merge requests all at once via the Merge Request list.

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Quick Actions

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GitLab provides a convenient way to change metadata of an issue or merge request without leaving the comment field with quick actions.

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Custom Notifications

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Be notified by email, Slack, or to-do items anytime there are changes to an issue or merge request.

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To-Do List

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When a user is mentioned in or assigned to an issue or merge request, it will be included in the user’s To-Do List, making the development workflow faster and easier to track.

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Jira Integration

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To ensure that developers in GitLab and project managers in Jira remain in tune, GitLab integrates with Jira and provides the necessary tooling to fill that gap.

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Jira Issues Integration

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Integrate Jira issues with GitLab merge requests.

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Jira Development Panel Integration

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View GitLab repository information and navigate to GitLab from the Jira development panel.

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Track Description Changes

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View the full history of description updates in issues, merge requests, and epics.

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Multiple approvers in code review

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To ensure strict code review, you can require a minimum number of users to approve of a merge request before it is able to be merged.

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Approval rules for code review

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Approval rules ensure that the right people review merge requests by specifying eligible approvers and the minimum number of approvals required for a merge request.

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Optional Merge Request Approvals

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Code review is an essential practice of every successful project, and giving your approval once a merge request is in good shape is an important part of the review process, as it clearly communicates the ability to merge the change.

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Code Owners

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Assign Code Owners to files to indicate the team members responsible for code in your project. Code owners are assigned automatically as merge request approvers.

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Suggest changes to merge requests

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Collaborating on merge requests without copy/pasting to accept a suggested change. Changes can be suggested when leaving a comment on a merge request diff and accepted with a single click.

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Multi-line diff comments

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Leave merge request comments spanning multiple lines in a diff

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Image Discussions

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Within a commit view or a merge request diff view, and with respect to a specific location of an image, you can have a resolvable discussion. Have multiple discussions specifying different areas of an image.

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Merge Request Commit Discussions

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Comment on a commit within the context of a merge request itself

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Create merge request from email

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Create a merge request from email by sending in the merge request title, description, and source branch name. Alternatively use patch files to create a merge request without first pushing a branch.

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First time contributor badge

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Highlight first-time contributors in a project.

Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI

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Integrate with Jenkins CI and display the merge request build status directly from the merge request.

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Merge Requests

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Create merge requests and @mention team members to review and safely merge your changes.

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Merge conflict resolution

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Preview merge conflicts in the GitLab UI and tell Git which version to use.

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Merge when pipeline succeeds

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When reviewing a merge request that looks ready to merge but still has one or more CI/CD jobs running, you can set it to be merged automatically when the jobs pipeline succeeds with a single click. No configuration required.

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Revert specific commits or a merge request from the UI

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Revert any commit or a single merge request from GitLab’s UI, with a click of a button.

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Merge request versions

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View and compare merge request diffs from the merge request UI.

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Inline commenting and discussion resolution

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Code or text review is faster and more effective with inline comments in merge requests. Leave comments and resolve discussions on specific lines of code. In GitLab, Merge Request inline comments are interpreted as a discussion and can be left on any line, changed or unchanged. You can configure your project to only accept merge requests when all discussions are resolved.

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Ability to edit all fields of a merge request

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GitLab Merge Requests are editable by the author, the project’s owners and users with maintainer access. Every field is editable, as well as the target branch.

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Automatically close issue(s) when a merge request is merged

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With GitLab, you can use specific keywords to close one or more issues as soon as a merge request is merged.

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Configurable issue closing pattern

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Define your own specific keywords to close one or more issues as soon as a merge request is merged.

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Draft merge requests

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Prevent merge requests from accidentally being accepted before they’re completely ready by marking them as Draft. This gives you all the code review power of merge requests, while protecting unfinished work.

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Inline code coverage in merge request diff

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As a reviewer, it can be hard to tell at a glance if new code is covered by a test or not. Customers can now speed up their code reviews by seeing which lines of code are covered by tests in the Merge Request Diff.

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Merge request reviews

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For faster code review, draft multiple comments in a merge request code review, before submitting them together all at once.

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Merge Request Dependencies

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Coordinate the order in which merge requests are merged within the same project and/or across different projects.

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Code intelligence by Sourcegraph

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Powerful code intelligence to help developers navigate code effectively, including go to definition and find references.

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Code intelligence

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GitLab native code intelligence helps developers navigate code effectively, including go to definition and find references.

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Merge request reviewers

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Request merge request reviews from specific users. Determine relevant user roles for merge requests.

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Track Comment Changes

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View the full history of comment updates.

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Drag and Drop Tasks

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Drag and drop tasks in a task list.

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Rich Object Summary on Link Hover

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View an information-rich summary by hovering over links to users, issues, merge requests, and other objects in GitLab.

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Create GitLab Merge Request from Jira Development Panel

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Create a GitLab merge request from within the development panel of a Jira issue.

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Code review dashboards

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Dashboards with a filterable set of code reviews (could be by project, by user, by branch, by status, or a combination of those). Dashboards includes code review status and links to get to them. This makes it easy to see what is going on with code reviews for a desired subset.

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Contributor agreements

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Users can be required to sign one or more contributor agreements before being able to submit a change in a project.

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Robot comments

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Support for inline comments that are generated by automated third-party systems, for example robot comments can be used to represent the results of code analyzers.

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Works with multiple repository types

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Supports more than one repository type, such as Git, Subversion, Perforce, CVS, Mercurial.

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Code Review

Streamline code review and approvals

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Features

Description Templates

Task Lists

File Attachments

Award Emoji

GitLab Flavored Markdown

Threaded Discussions

Filterable System Activity

Track Title Changes

Assignee

Lock Discussion

Bulk Edit Merge Requests

Quick Actions

Custom Notifications

To-Do List

Jira Integration

Jira Issues Integration

Jira Development Panel Integration

Track Description Changes

Multiple approvers in code review

Approval rules for code review

Optional Merge Request Approvals

Code Owners

Suggest changes to merge requests

Multi-line diff comments

Image Discussions

Merge Request Commit Discussions

Create merge request from email

First time contributor badge

Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI

Merge Requests

Merge conflict resolution

Merge when pipeline succeeds

Revert specific commits or a merge request from the UI

Merge request versions

Inline commenting and discussion resolution

Ability to edit all fields of a merge request

Automatically close issue(s) when a merge request is merged

Configurable issue closing pattern

Draft merge requests

Inline code coverage in merge request diff

Merge request reviews

Merge Request Dependencies

Code intelligence by Sourcegraph

Code intelligence

Merge request reviewers

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Track Comment Changes

Drag and Drop Tasks

Rich Object Summary on Link Hover

Create GitLab Merge Request from Jira Development Panel

Code review dashboards

Contributor agreements

Robot comments

Works with multiple repository types