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| author | Sean McGivern <sean@mcgivern.me.uk> | 2017-03-16 19:31:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Lin Jen-Shin <godfat@godfat.org> | 2017-03-17 06:37:51 +0300 |
| commit | 7757ffadc01d8ad0519676c67baea5cd50fde5a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 23bd0dff2532384ad0bd63cf74e6e04f48fc89a6 /doc | |
| parent | 9df22a18cea7bf796679473ba269cce3963835db (diff) | |
Merge branch 'doc_about_branch_creation_in_empty_repo' into 'master'
Document a New Branch feature for Bare Projects
See merge request !9996
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diff --git a/doc/user/project/repository/web_editor.md b/doc/user/project/repository/web_editor.md index c415d566a7c..d47a3acdbe9 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/repository/web_editor.md +++ b/doc/user/project/repository/web_editor.md @@ -109,12 +109,19 @@ the title of the issue and as suffix it will have its ID. Thus, the example screenshot above will yield a branch named `2-et-cum-et-sed-expedita-repellat-consequatur-ut-assumenda-numquam-rerum`. +Since GitLab 9.0, when you click the `New branch` in an empty repository project, GitLab automatically creates the master branch, commits a blank `README.md` file to it and creates and redirects you to a new branch based on the issue title. +If your [project is already configured with a deployment service][project-services-doc] (e.g. Kubernetes), GitLab takes one step further and prompts you to set up [auto deploy][auto-deploy-doc] by helping you create a `.gitlab-ci.yml` file. + + After the branch is created, you can edit files in the repository to fix the issue. When a merge request is created based on the newly created branch, the description field will automatically display the [issue closing pattern] `Closes #ID`, where `ID` the ID of the issue. This will close the issue once the merge request is merged. +[project-services-doc]: ../integrations/project_services.md +[auto-deploy-doc]: ../../../ci/autodeploy/index.md + ### Create a new branch from a project's dashboard If you want to make changes to several files before creating a new merge |