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GitLab Quick Actions

Quick actions are textual shortcuts for common actions on issues, epics, merge requests, and commits that are usually done by clicking buttons or dropdowns in GitLab's UI. You can enter these commands while creating a new issue or merge request, or in comments of issues, epics, merge requests, and commits. Each command should be on a separate line in order to be properly detected and executed. Once executed,

From GitLab 12.1, an alert is displayed when a quick action is successfully applied.

Quick Actions for issues and merge requests

The following quick actions are applicable to both issues and merge requests threads, discussions, and descriptions:

Command	Action	Issue	Merge request
/tableflip <Comment>	Append the comment with (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻	✓	✓
/shrug <Comment>	Append the comment with ¯\＿(ツ)＿/¯	✓	✓
/todo	Add a To Do	✓	✓
/done	Mark To Do as done	✓	✓
/subscribe	Subscribe	✓	✓
/unsubscribe	Unsubscribe	✓	✓
/close	Close	✓	✓
/reopen	Reopen	✓	✓
/title <New title>	Change title	✓	✓
/award :emoji:	Toggle emoji award	✓	✓
/assign me	Assign yourself	✓	✓
/assign @user	Assign one user	✓	✓
/assign @user1 @user2	Assign multiple users (STARTER)	✓	✓
/unassign @user1 @user2	Remove assignee(s) (STARTER)	✓	✓
/reassign @user1 @user2	Change assignee (STARTER)	✓	✓
/unassign	Remove current assignee	✓	✓
/milestone %milestone	Set milestone	✓	✓
/remove_milestone	Remove milestone	✓	✓
/label ~label1 ~label2	Add label(s). Label names can also start without ~ but mixed syntax is not supported.	✓	✓
/unlabel ~label1 ~label2	Remove all or specific label(s)	✓	✓
/relabel ~label1 ~label2	Replace existing label(s) with those specified	✓	✓
/copy_metadata <#issue>	Copy labels and milestone from another issue in the project	✓	✓
/copy_metadata <!merge_request>	Copy labels and milestone from another merge request in the project	✓	✓
/estimate <1w 3d 2h 14m>	Set time estimate	✓	✓
/remove_estimate	Remove time estimate	✓	✓
/spend <time(1h 30m)> <date(YYYY-MM-DD)>	Add spent time; optionally, specify the date that time was spent on	✓	✓
/spend <time(-1h 5m)> <date(YYYY-MM-DD)>	Subtract spent time; optionally, specify the date that time was spent on	✓	✓
/remove_time_spent	Remove time spent	✓	✓
/lock	Lock the thread	✓	✓
/unlock	Unlock the thread	✓	✓
/due <date>	Set due date. Examples of valid <date> include in 2 days, this Friday and December 31st.	✓
/remove_due_date	Remove due date	✓
/weight <value>	Set weight. Valid options for <value> include 0, 1, 2, etc. (STARTER)	✓
/clear_weight	Clears weight (STARTER)	✓
/epic <epic>	Add to epic <epic>. The <epic> value should be in the format of &epic, group&epic or epic-URL. (ULTIMATE)	✓
/remove_epic	Removes from epic (ULTIMATE)	✓
/promote	Promote issue to epic (ULTIMATE)	✓
/confidential	Make confidential	✓
/duplicate <#issue>	Mark this issue as a duplicate of another issue	✓
/move <path/to/project>	Move this issue to another project	✓
/target_branch <Local branch Name>	Set target branch		✓
/wip	Toggle the Work In Progress status		✓
/approve	Approve the merge request		✓
/merge	Merge (when pipeline succeeds)		✓
/create_merge_request <branch name>	Create a new merge request starting from the current issue	✓
/relate #issue1 #issue2	Mark issues as related (STARTER)	✓

Autocomplete characters

Many quick actions require a parameter, for example: username, milestone, and label. Autocomplete characters can make it easier to enter a parameter, compared to selecting items from a list.

Quick actions parameters

The easiest way to set parameters for quick actions is to use autocomplete. If you manually enter a parameter, it must be enclosed in double quotation marks ("), unless it contains only:

1. ASCII letters.
2. Numerals.
3. Underscore, hyphen, question mark, dot, and ampersand.

Parameters are also case-sensitive. Autocomplete handles this, and the insertion of quotation marks, automatically.

Quick actions for commit messages

The following quick actions are applicable for commit messages:

Command	Action
/tag v1.2.3 <message>	Tags this commit with an optional message

Quick actions for Epics (ULTIMATE)

The following quick actions are applicable for epics threads and description:

Command	Action
/tableflip <Comment>	Append the comment with (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
/shrug <Comment>	Append the comment with ¯\＿(ツ)＿/¯
/todo	Add a To Do
/done	Mark To Do as done
/subscribe	Subscribe
/unsubscribe	Unsubscribe
/close	Close
/reopen	Reopen
/title <New title>	Change title
/award :emoji:	Toggle emoji award
/label ~label1 ~label2	Add label(s)
/unlabel ~label1 ~label2	Remove all or specific label(s)
/relabel ~label1 ~label2	Replace existing label(s) with those specified
/child_epic <epic>	Adds child epic to <epic>. The <epic> value should be in the format of &epic, group&epic or epic-URL. (Introduced in GitLab 12.0) (ULTIMATE)
/remove_child_epic <epic>	Removes child epic from <epic>. The <epic> value should be in the format of &epic, group&epic or epic-URL. (Introduced in GitLab 12.0) (ULTIMATE)
/parent_epic <epic>	Sets parent epic to <epic>. The <epic> value should be in the format of &epic, group&epic or epic-URL. (introduced in GitLab 12.1) (ULTIMATE)
/remove_parent_epic	Removes parent epic from epic (introduced in GitLab 12.1)