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  Include integration tests in CE/EE testing documentation
  41054-Disallow creation of new Kubernetes integrations
  Resolve "Resizable file list and commit panel"
  Make tooltip placement bottom by default as per design guidelines
  Fix groups list icon, timestamp alignment and row height
  Avoid leaving a push event empty if payload cannot be created
  Use heredoc for long strings so it's easier to read
  Simplify metrics fetching for closed/merged MRs
  Better English
  Fix method lookup
  Use a background migration for issues.closed_at
  Handle Gitaly aborted merge due to branch update
  Fix API endpoints to edit wiki pages where project belongs to a group
  Fixes spec failures due to not returning metrics for MRs other than closed/merged
  Cache merged and closed events data in merge_request_metrics table
  Update test to remove carent icon check
  Update styles to fix SVG caret alignment
  Update selector to test SVG icon name
  Use SVG sprite icons
  Add support for max_count option to Git::Repository#count_commits
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administration Merge branch 'patch-11' into 'master' 2017-12-28 16:34:21 +00:00
api Add Microsoft Teams Service API docs 2017-12-22 12:18:05 +00:00
articles Docs: move article LDAP-CE to its topic-related folder 2017-12-22 17:15:08 +00:00
ci Update code_climate recommended usage. 2017-12-25 12:48:48 +00:00
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customization Docs: Update admin docs 2017-12-13 15:22:02 +00:00
development Merge branch 'master' into 34312-eslint-vue-plugin 2018-01-04 15:53:16 +00:00
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install Align chart docs with readme 2018-01-03 01:14:43 -05:00
integration Make sure user email is read only when synced with LDAP 2017-12-15 12:48:48 +01:00
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legal Merge branch 'jlh-replace-cla' into 'master' 2017-11-01 18:10:15 +00:00
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monitoring Docs: add indexes for monitoring and performance monitoring 2017-12-14 18:24:42 +00:00
operations add index for doc/administration/operations/ 2017-12-11 14:05:08 -02:00
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policy Improve the maintenance policy page 2017-10-31 17:05:06 +01:00
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raketasks Improve GitLab Import rake task to work with Hashed Storage and Subgroups 2017-11-07 19:11:42 +00:00
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system_hooks Add system hooks user_rename and group_rename 2017-11-03 11:26:52 +00:00
topics Merge branch 'update-autodevops-template' into 'master' 2018-01-03 20:44:47 +00:00
university Fix typo in docs about Elasticsearch 2017-12-03 13:07:41 +09:00
update Update installation and upgrade guides to use Ruby 2.3.6 2017-12-20 10:58:56 +01:00
user Merge branch 'docs-update-doc-for-prometheus-and-kubernetes-integrations' into 'master' 2018-01-03 20:37:58 +00:00
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