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Léo-Paul Géneau
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> [Introduced][ce-2772] in GitLab 9.0.
With subgroups (a
lso called
nested groups or hierarchical groups) you can have
With subgroups (a
ka
nested groups or hierarchical groups) you can have
up to 20 levels of nested groups, which among other things can help you to:
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**Separate internal / external organizations.**
Since every group
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## Overview
A group can have many subgroups inside it, and at the same time a group can have
only 1 parent group. It resembles a directory behavior
, like the one below
:
only 1 parent group. It resembles a directory behavior
or a nested items list
:
```
group0
└── subgroup01a
└── subgroup01b
└── subgroup02
└── subgroup03
```
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Group 1
-
Group 1.1
-
Group 1.2
-
Group 1.2.1
-
Group 1.2.2
-
Group 1.2.2.1
In a real world example, imagine maintaining a GNU/Linux distribution with the
first group being the name of the distro and subsequent groups split like:
```
Organization Group - GNU/Linux distro
└── Category Subgroup - Packages
└── project - Package01
└── project - Package02
└── Category Subgroup - Software
└── project - Core
└── project - CLI
└── project - Android app
└── project - iOS app
└── Category Subgroup - Infra tools
└── project - Ansible playbooks
```
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Organization Group - GNU/Linux distro
-
Category Subgroup - Packages
-
(project) Package01
-
(project) Package02
-
Category Subgroup - Software
-
(project) Core
-
(project) CLI
-
(project) Android app
-
(project) iOS app
-
Category Subgroup - Infra tools
-
(project) Ansible playbooks
Another example of GitLab as a company would be the following:
```
Organization Group - GitLab
└── Category Subroup - Marketing
└── project - Design
└── project - General
└── Category Subgroup - Software
└── project - GitLab CE
└── project - GitLab EE
└── project - Omnibus GitLab
└── project - GitLab Runner
└── project - GitLab Pages daemon
└── Category Subgroup - Infra tools
└── project - Chef cookbooks
└── Category Subgroup - Executive team
```
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Organization Group - GitLab
-
Category Subroup - Marketing
-
(project) Design
-
(project) General
-
Category Subgroup - Software
-
(project) GitLab CE
-
(project) GitLab EE
-
(project) Omnibus GitLab
-
(project) GitLab Runner
-
(project) GitLab Pages daemon
-
Category Subgroup - Infra tools
-
(project) Chef cookbooks
-
Category Subgroup - Executive team
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>**Note:**
You need to be an Owner of a group in order to be able to add members to it.
To override the membership of an ancestor group, simply add the user in the new
subgroup again, but with different permissions.
To override a user's membership of an ancestor group (the first group they were
added to), simply add the user in the new subgroup again, but with different
permissions.
For example, if User0 was first added to group
`
one/two
`
with Developer
For example, if User0 was first added to group
`
group-1/group-1-1
`
with Developer
permissions, then they will inherit those permissions in every other subgroup
of
`one/two`
. To give them Master access to
`one/two/three`
, you would add them
again in that group as Master. Removing them from that group, the permissions
will fallback to those of the ancestor group.
Note that the higher permission wins, so if in the above example the permissions
where reversed, User0 would have Master access to all groups, even to the one
that was explicitly given Developer access.
of
`group-1/group-1-1`
. To give them Master access to
`group-1/group-1-1/group1-1-1`
,
you would add them again in that group as Master. Removing them from that group,
the permissions will fallback to those of the ancestor group.
## Mentioning subgroups
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