"Project description" in Settings->General text suddenly eats up lists and converts them to one-liner

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Summary

When editing "Project description" in Settings->General, if try to save something list-like, it would be suddenly converted to one-liner.

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to project

2. Go to Settings -> General

3. In textarea named "Project description (optional)" input the following text:

   This product can perform the following:
    - one
    - two
    - three

   or:

   This product can perform the following:
   1. one
   2. two
   3. three

4. Save changes

5. Go back to project page or project lists page

6. See not the same text that you have entered in project description: list would be suddenly converted to one-liner " one two three ".

Example Project

• https://gitlab.com/rc5hack/example - the project
• https://gitlab.com/users/rc5hack/projects - personal project list page

What is the current bug behavior?

Multiline lists in "Project description" shows as one-liners with list symbols (- and/or numbers) omitted.

There is no hint on settings page, that the text you entering would not be shown as is, but would be converted some way.

The observed behavior is unexpected.

What is the expected correct behavior?

• Do not convert lists in "Project description", parse them as Mardown and show them as lists,
• OR
• Do not convert lists in "Project description" and show them as plain-text, without omitting list symbols (- and/or numbers),
• OR
• Keep current behavior, but add hint to settings page, that enetered text would be converted "this way and this way".

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