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nhat-phan / merge-request-integration

An Intellij IDE plugin which helps you manage Merge Request and do Code Review right in your IDE.
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Feature: Allow configuring GitLab instance without selecting a project #97

Open dragetd opened 4 years ago

dragetd commented 4 years ago

I have fallen for the same issue which is brought up in here: #77

I know that fetching the project-related resources only works if the plugin knows which project it maps to in GitLab. But silently ignoring the settings is somewhat unintuitive.

Solutions I would suggest, ranked from favorite to least-favorite: 1) Enable some kind of auto-detection that searches from GitLab projects matching the local project-name or repository root/remote. The Git remote might be used for that. If there is any disambiguation, a popup could ask to select one from the candidates whenever a GitLab action is performed.

2) Allow saving of GitLab instance options without an assigned project. Optionally add a warning that it will not work yet, if this is not set. But this would allow configuring it as a default-value for new projects. Whenever a GitLab action is performed, a popup warns, that this is not configured yet.

3) Warn the user when trying to save a GitLab connection without an assigned project, simply not allowing to save without setting it.

Open for input!

rrajkomar commented 3 years ago

Solution 2 looks like the right way to go : it allows to pre-save the common settings, then all that's left to do is match the project when creating/cloning it (which could be done automatically by looking at the origin in the git config file I believe)