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authorAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2018-12-12 12:11:50 +0000
committerAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2018-12-12 12:11:50 +0000
commite462e23449bd0ca8c4fab02d64437b59e50f5f8d (patch)
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parent03ca338987988d1fab96f385bb87c70227265ed9 (diff)
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Merge branch 'docs-add-fork-mr-clarification' into 'master'
add information about how merge requests related to forks are processed See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23764
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> Otherwise, a supplementary comment is left to mention the original author and
> the MRs, notes or issues will be owned by the importer.
> - Control project Import/Export with the [API](../../../api/project_import_export.md).
+> - If an imported project contains merge requests originated from forks,
+> then new branches associated with such merge requests will be created
+> within a project during the import/export. Thus, the number of branches
+> in the exported project could be bigger than in the original project.
Existing projects running on any GitLab instance or GitLab.com can be exported
with all their related data and be moved into a new GitLab instance.