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GitLab also limits the size of PRs/MRs, which makes it Unfit for Purpose. :( :( :( Its a problem they know about, but have no plan to fix before 2027.
by justinclift 6mo ago
GitLab also limits the size of PRs/MRs, which makes it Unfit for Purpose. :( :( :(
Its a problem they know about, but have no plan to fix before 2027.
- irishcoffee 6mo agoI mean, the PR limit is like a million characters. I would also reject a PR of a million characters. That’s bananas.
- justinclift 6mo agoNot sure about that "million characters", but we've been bitten by it in our production systems. :( Thus, we're moving off GitLab.
- irishcoffee 6mo agoI'm sure, I looked it up.
- skullone 6mo agoWhat use case does a million character PR have?
- justinclift 6mo agoWhen an automated system creates a PR for merging from an existing dev branch (that's been extensively tested) to "master" (or "main"). The "surprise, you can't review all the files in your PR" using GitLabs standard web based tooling makes it a no-go.
- sofixa 6mo agoThat's interesting because GitHub's web UI craps out at much less than 1 million lines. It refuses to open even low thousand line diffs.
- justinclift 6mo agoYeah, agreed it's not great for that. I'm not real happy with GitHub's worsening UX either, but it'll at least show the _names_ of all the files in the PR. With GitLab, when you hit the rate limit, any file "past" that limit doesn't even show that it exists in the MR. It just looks like the MR is missing a bunch of stuff, with no workaround available. :( :( :(
- xp84 6mo agoI’ve personally been deeply unappreciated of Github’s changes in the last few years to automatically not show diffs to “large files” without having to click to open them - which seems to be a threshold that continues to shrink. Maybe like 3 screenfuls of content is the limit now per file. It’s crazy.