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[-] aport@programming.dev 29 points 4 months ago

GitLab still doesn't even support leaving comments on a commit message. Like, what? GitLab and GitHub have all these fancy shiny features but still suck at offering basic code review functionality.

I never understood the appeal.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

You can leave comments on a commit message. What do you mean exactly?

[-] aport@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can not highlight text in a commit message and leave an in-line comment in the same way you can for code changes in the diff.

Edit: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/19691

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Ohhhhh you can't comment on a specific line of a commit message. I see. I mean... yeah I guess not. That seems like a super niche feature though. How long are your commit messages? I've never even tried to do that. Commit messages are short enough you can pretty much just write a normal message not tied to a specific line.

There are waaaaay bigger issues with Gitlab. Here's one I ran into recently, you can't search for pipelines. It's got a search box and everything but you literally can't search; only filter. So stupid.

I actually just went to take a look at Gitlab issues I have commented on to see what my worst ones are. Guess what.... you can't even search for issues you have commented on!!!

Still, overall it's the best self-hostable option out there at the moment IMO. I guess Forgejo (truly abysmal name) may overtake it at some point.

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