Chapter 4. Issue Tracker and Wiki

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating your first issue
  • Creating your first merge request
  • Accepting a merge request
  • Working with milestones
  • Referencing issues in commits
  • Creating your first wiki page
  • Managing the wiki with Gollum

Creating your first issue

When working on projects, you get bugs or new feature requests. You need a place to store all of them. GitLab has an amazing and easy way to do this; it's called the issue tracker. In this recipe, we will take a look at how you can create these issues in the issue tracker.

With the issue tracker, you can assign issues to team members and follow the path of a bug from it being reported to it being solved. When you work in a team, it's very useful ...

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