merge request title assignment doesn't preserve case sensitivity of branch names

It appears when opening a merge request on gitlab the default title is:

  • the first line of the commit message (if only one commit is to be merged)
  • the branch name (if more than one commit is to be merged)

We have (in some projects) the convention to name branches according to their ticket ID in jira, which are named PROJECT-ID (i.e. [A-Z]*-[0-9]*). When opening the merge request on gitlab, the default title is however converted to lower case except for the first letter (i.e. [A-Z][a-z]*-[0-9]*). The automatic link generation and notification in jira is yet case sensitive, such that (if one then only enters a description and doesn't "fix" the title) no notification of the merge request opening appears in jira.

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Of cause this is only a minor inconvenience but I'd appreciate if gitlab would preserve the capitalization of branch names when opening merge requests.

[we are runningGitLab Enterprise Edition 8.13.8-ee 41a66cbe]