Merge request approvals

One powerful feature for high-performance teams who want to ensure all submitted code is of the highest quality is merge request approvals. This is available to all Starter/Bronze enterprise subscriptions and above. It takes two main forms, which can be intermixed:

  • Requiring approval from a certain number of users before a merge is allowed
  • Requiring merge approval from select users/groups before a merge is allowed

By mixing these together, you can also have combinations such as requiring a certain number of people from a particular group, or requiring at least the project owner plus one other person to approve a merge request before it can be completed. For example, you might want to allow anyone to contribute work ...

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