Renamed gitlab repositories cause incorrect URLs

[jayvdb]

https://gitlab.com/coala/package_manager has been given a new name dependency_management, but the URL doesnt change. It is quite confusing and IMO is a misfeature. But we've done it.

And git-repo doesnt know about this.

git lab request coala/package_manager list
List of open requests to merge:
 id title                                                           URL
 31 MavenRequirement: Prevent test fails                            https://gitlab.com/coala/dependency_management/merge_requests/31
 30 DistributionRequirementTest: Fix assertRaisesRegex              https://gitlab.com/coala/dependency_management/merge_requests/30
 29 GoRequirement: Add missing space to command                     https://gitlab.com/coala/dependency_management/merge_requests/29

These URLs like https://gitlab.com/coala/dependency_management/merge_requests/31 are wrong; they should be https://gitlab.com/coala/package_manager/merge_requests/31 .

[guyzmo]

oh, that's painful, I did not know the external URL could be different from the internal name. The same use case in github is that when you rename the project, the URL changes, and the old URL redirects to the new URL.

I'll try to figure out how to fix that, but I also believe this is bad UX from gitlab and if it hasn't been done, you should make an issue on gitlab-ce's issues.

[guyzmo]

(also the reason for rebuilding URIs based on project slugs it's because in many parts the gitlab API uses projects IDs instead of the project slugs to identify the projects)