Organize issues as plain text in git repo

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Have gitlab issues stored as somewhat plain text and version controlled with git.

The wikipages are already version controlled in a git repo and it works great.

What does success look like:

Being able to track and view detail history of an issue by leveraging git commands like git log
Being able to organize and edit issues with any text editor (not being tied to the browser)
- All bulk editing described in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/managing_issues.html#edit-an-issue can be done with higher finesse and using the features/tools that developers are already used to from their dev environment
Allows for terminal-only editing mode
Edit conflicts will be resolved by git fetch/rebase/push mechanism

Edited Sep 25, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖