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Required Merge Request Approvals

When a project needs multiple sign-offs, you can require every merge request to be approved before merging. With Required Merge Request Approvals you can set the number of necessary approvals and predefine a list of specific approvers. In turn, guarantee the quality and the standards of your code.

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Multiple approvers in code review

In GitLab, 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. You can undo an approval by removing it after the fact.

Approvals Documentation

Approval rules for code review

Make sure the right people review merge requests with approval rules by specifying lists of eligible approvers, the minimum number of approvals for each, and which target branches they protect. This makes it easy to request review from different teams like Engineering, UX and Product.

Approvals Documentation

Optional Merge Request Approvals

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

Assign Code Owners to files to indicate the team members responsible for code in your project using a CODEOWNERS file. Code owners are assigned automatically as merge request approvers, can be set as required and shown when viewing files. Sections allow each team to configure their own code owners configuration independently, allowing multiple teams to look after common parts of the codebase.

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Multi-line diff comments

Leave merge request comments spanning multiple lines in a diff

Image Discussions

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.

Image Discussions

Merge Request Commit Discussions

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

Merge Request Commit Discussions

Inline commenting and discussion resolution

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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Code review dashboards

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

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

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.

GitLab merge requests store results

Works with multiple repository types

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

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