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by suchar 1139 days ago
Yup, it's "funny" that even basic functionality doesn't work as expected: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350662

I encounter this issue pretty often and it makes code review experience miserable. It's not blocking any work, but it is frustrating enough that for any new project I would try to avoid using Gitlab
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yjftsjthsd-h 1139 days ago
And what a typical issue that is. Opened a year ago, initially some requests for internal clarification that went nowhere, plans to be fixed by an upcoming release, then loads of metadata and bot comments with minimal actual work happening, followed by pushing back the release they want to fix it in, followed by reducing its priority, deciding that actually they don't need to fix it and can just throw it on the backlog, more comments about users being affected, and then today a comment that it got brought up in a discussion here:)
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phikai 1139 days ago
Hey - I'm the PM for our Code Review group. Sorry to see you're running in to that issue, it's been a real challenge for us. If you're running in to it pretty often, it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on. For lots of bugs, the hardest thing for us to do is reproduce them... so if you've got a reliable way to do that, it really helps us prioritize things to fix.
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thunky 1139 days ago
> it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on

The comment you're replying to has a link to an issue which includes a video and a test project.

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jufiydk 1139 days ago
The user you are replying to has stated that the problem has not yet been made reproducible in the issue you are referring to.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1139 days ago
That's the opposite of my reading?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350662#note_10...

> However, I can still reproduce it under certain conditions:

Separately, that's not much of a defense; inconsistent errors are still problems for users. Although, I suppose gitlab only fixing bugs that are 100% reproducible would explain a lot about their product.

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amf12 1139 days ago
Maybe you should read the comments on the issue first.
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