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Warn on merge requests to project with more permissive visibility

Jerry Seto requested to merge 415019-warn-when-target-project-visibility-less-restricted into master

What does this MR do and why?

Warn on merge requests to project with more permissive visibility

Add a warning when creating a merge request from a souce project with more restrictive repository access levels than the target project

Contributes to: #415019 (closed)

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Create a public project
  2. Fork the project
  3. Set repository access level to private (Settings -> General -> Expand Visibility, project features, permissions -> Set repository to Only Project Members)
  4. Try to create a merge request from the fork to the original project and see that there is a warning

MR acceptance checklist

This checklist encourages us to confirm any changes have been analyzed to reduce risks in quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Related to #415019 (closed)

Edited by Jerry Seto

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