Backport of Adjust docs following patches for "require a commit SHA for merge requests API"
What does this MR do and why?
Backports a docs change to reflect an engineering fix that was also backported to 19-3-stable-ee. The fix changed the default behavior, so it's important for the docs to reflect the current state and avoid customer confusion.
This backports doc/user/group/manage.md only and excludes the changes to the upgrade page (doc/update/versions/gitlab_19_changes.md). I excluded the upgrade page because it's more likely that an admin will use the version published on .com and not the versioned /help in their self-managed instance. But happy to add it in if reviewers disagree and think it's valuable to include as well.
- The engineering backport: Backport of Set SHA requirement to false on gro... (!252670 - merged)
- The docs MR for master: Adjust docs following patches for "require a co... (!253726 - merged)
- RFH issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/request-for-help/-/work_items/5229+
MR acceptance checklist
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- This MR is backporting a bug fix, documentation update, or spec fix, previously merged in the default branch.
- The MR that fixed the bug on the default branch has been deployed to GitLab.com (not applicable for documentation or spec changes).
- The MR title is descriptive (e.g. "Backport of 'title of default branch MR'"). This is important, since the title will be copied to the patch blog post.
- Required labels have been applied to this merge request
- severity label and bug subtype labels (if applicable)
- If this MR fixes a bug that affects customers, the customer label has been applied.
- This MR has been approved by a maintainer (only one approval is required).
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Note to the merge request author and maintainer
If you have questions about the patch release process, please:
- Refer to the patch release runbook for engineers and maintainers for guidance.
- Ask questions on the
#releasesSlack channel (internal only). - Once the backport has been merged, the commit changes will be automatically deployed to a release environment that can be used for manual validation. See after merging runbook for details.