Cross project change id

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There are situations where the same change should be merged into multiple branches (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/33141) but the branches may not be in the same project. For example, I may have 5 forks for a common project, and each fork is customer specific. I want to be able to merge the same change into all 5 forks and have a unified id to track the change.

Proposal

Perhaps we can extend group merge requests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3427 to not handle merging 5 related changes into their respective project, but also allowing a single change to be merged to 5 different projects.

Links / references

  • Gerrit: change id

    Gerrit has a change id system which allows a single change to be cherry picked and merged into different branches and projects, and provides and id that connects all the changes.

Edited Aug 28, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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