### Problem to solve To support git workflows with multiple active branches, it would be nice to support their relationship within gitlab. E.g. there might be a branch relationship like - master - next - feature-foo - feature-bar - v00/master - v00/next - v01/master - v01/next This relationship should be visible within gitlab itself; e.g. - the "xxx commits behind/yyy commits ahead" statistics in repository/branches should be relative to the parent/tracking branch; etm, they are based on "default" branch - merge requests should be relative to the tracking branch; atm. there must be done multiple steps to change the base branch ### Intended users - Developers - Project Maintainers