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Disable GitLab snippets
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GitLab has a snippets feature, which basically duplicates Phab's Pasters. To avoid duplicate tools for the same thing I think we should disable snippets in favour of the tool we're already using.

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taavi renamed this task from Disable GitLab snippers to Disable GitLab snippets.Mar 24 2023, 1:44 PM

Currently in GitLab there is only the Default snippet visibility setting under admin/application_settings/general.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/65355 got rejected in favor of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/13426 moved to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14228 which does not fix this request at all.

brennen subscribed.

See also: T264231: Investigate whether issues, operations, wikis, etc. can be disabled globally on GitLab.

I have two thoughts:

  1. This isn't quite the same as Phabricator's pastebin functionality. It's a GitHub gists clone: It supports multiple files and snippets are accessible as a Git repo. From that perspective, maybe it has utility we aren't offering elsewhere.
  1. Also I don't know how to turn it off.