Wiki: Known Issues/Websites / Gitlab Issue Listing Script



Comments aren't displayed with public_projects_only set to true

There's a quirk of Gitlab's API - whether an issue is public or not, it requires authentication to retrieve comments.

When public_projects_only is enabled we drop privileges - unfortunately this also means that we'll not be able to retrieve comments.

In a later release things might be adjusted so that auth is used for comments, but it needs a bit of care and consideration first.


Smart Commit notifications don't appear in issues

If you've done a commit with a commit message like

Fixes websites/Gitlab-Issue-Listing-Script#41

Then gitlab will close the issue and show a smart commit notification in the issue

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However, GILS is unable to display these messages (ordinary commit messages are fine).

This is another quirk of Gitlab's API (websites/Gitlab-Issue-Listing-Script#42) - the API does not expose these notes, so GILS is unable to include them