diff is collapsed even if it is the only file with changes

Problem to solve

Making MR reviews as fast and easy as possible

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)
• Simone (Software Engineer in Test)

Further details

Right now you can get a diff with all lines collapsed, even if it is the only file that changed

Proposal

Auto-expand a diff if it would be collapsed and it is the only file with changes in an MR.

Permissions and Security

Just normal project and review access I would think

Documentation

None required I don't think

Availability & Testing

Do a few MRs with the appropriate diffs and it should be good. No availability concerns I don't think

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

If people get MRs done faster when they only have one file maybe

What is the type of buyer?

Probably free tier

Is this a cross-stage feature?

No? Unless other areas use MR collapsing I guess

Links / references

Might be related: #35075

mentioned in issue gitlab-org/quality/triage-reports#33 (closed)

added devopscreate label

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mentioned in issue #214178 (closed)

mentioned in issue #214948 (closed)

changed milestone to %Awaiting further demand

added [deprecated] Accepting merge requests label

marked this issue as related to #35075

marked this issue as related to #33072

mentioned in issue ux-research#836 (closed)

mentioned in epic &1417

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Setting label(s) Category:Source Code Management based on groupsource code.

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hello??? why hasnt this been fixed yet? I need to be able to send diffs to people to review and i'm supposed to tell them "You have to click on 'expand' in order to see what i'm talking about"??? Can you at least make a URL parameter that prevents this aggressive folding? There are several bug reports addressing this but nothing has changed in years? gitlab hello please? I don't want to use github anymore but this is really basic

Closing this as a duplicate of #254823 (closed) which was resolved with !44629 (merged) in GitLab 13.5

marked this issue as a duplicate of #254823 (closed)

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marked this issue as related to #254823 (closed)