Reserved group name validation issue
Summary
I'm able to create a top-level group that begins with a reserved group name, followed by a dot, then any characters. But then navigation to this group fails. I think we need to get the input validation to catch these cases.
Steps to reproduce
- pick a reserved group name, like
help
- add a dot and then any characters to it, ending up with something like
help.abc123
- try to navigate to that group and you'll probably see the reserved page rather than your new group
Example project
https://gitlab.com/help.abc123
Here's a gitlab.com project that I created to showcase the problem.
Workaround
Navigate to https://gitlab.com/groups/help.abc123. Note: the URL in the browsers URL bar will be changed such that even refreshing with F5 will not work, i.e. redirect to the reserved prefix (in this case: https://gitlab.com/help)
Edited by Thong Kuah