Gitlab configuration change

[Kristen McWilliam]

> There is a very slim chance that occurs.
> If your MR has passing CI, and the target branch has passing CI, it is 
> unlikely that it will be broken by merging the changes in.
Does that have some sort of time-based heuristic?

If the MR last passed CI a few hours ago but needs to rebase, then sure 
probably. If it had green CI weeks/months/years ago though it really 
shouldn't offer to merge without needing to do a CI run IMO.

On 2026-10-30 10:00 p.m., Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 2:31 PM Kristen McWilliam <kristen at kde.org> wrote:
>
>     If I read this right, the default will now be to rebase and merge
>     /without/ running CI on the rebased state.
>
>
> Correct.
>
>     Will this not lead to merges that successfully rebase but
>     nevertheless have some breakage (that CI would hopefully have caught)?
>
>
> There is a very slim chance that occurs.
> If your MR has passing CI, and the target branch has passing CI, it is 
> unlikely that it will be broken by merging the changes in.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
>     On 2026-10-30 09:09 p.m., Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I've just pushed a change which will shortly begin rolling out to
>>     our repositories which will enable the "automatic rebase on
>>     merge" function of Gitlab.
>>     This feature recently became available in Gitlab from 19.2 onward.
>>
>>     This means going forward when a merge request is ready to be
>>     merged it is no longer necessary to first rebase it and wait for
>>     CI to complete before you can merge.
>>     Clicking merge will automatically trigger a rebase, skipping CI
>>     as required on merge.
>>
>>     image.png
>>
>>     If you wish you can select "Rebase with pipeline" to trigger a
>>     traditional manual rebase and CI run.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Ben Cooksley
>>     KDE Sysadmin
>
>     -- 
>     Cheers,
>        Kristen
>
-- 
Cheers,
   Kristen
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