Purpose of the CODEOWNERS file
There have been a flurry of MRs to add ownership to the CODEOWNERS file but it's not clear to me what this file does. It links to this page: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html Which explains the syntax quite thoroughly but doesn't as far as I can see explain how this information is used? So before I add myself to some files, what does adding ownership actually do? Cheers, Matt
Matthew Pickering
There have been a flurry of MRs to add ownership to the CODEOWNERS file but it's not clear to me what this file does.
It links to this page: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html
Which explains the syntax quite thoroughly but doesn't as far as I can see explain how this information is used?
So before I add myself to some files, what does adding ownership actually do?
When you open a merge request GitLab assigns a set of appropriate reviewers. This set is determined by the owners of the files your merge request touches [1]. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_approva...
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