[tmuir]

You seem to baselessly project negative emotions and motivations on to your interlocutors in lieu of coherent points that actually refute their arguments.

chinhodado, the GP, framed his feature request as one of the major reasons he is forced to continue using github. Gitlab's motivation for the very feature this thread is regarding, is to poach github customers, or at the very least, increase their customer base by giving people a smoother onramp to transition from github. More power to them.

The feature he describes does, in fact, have obvious utility, which is why it was so strange to me, someone who only uses gitlab for its most basic features, to see the exchange with the gitlab engineer. Surely a company with the venture capital that gitlab has raised would perform the basic ongoing market research that any company in nearly any competitive market performs.

It honestly made me wonder if gitlab on one hand, realizes that they need to inform themselves of useful features, but for whatever reason, doesn't avail themselves of github's features.