Commit 38b93f9f authored by Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski's avatar Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski

Merge branch 'jh-add-docs-on-max-text-length' into 'master'

Add documentation on maximum text length

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!28424
parents d3b5da67 66528ac7
......@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ will fail.
- **Max limit:** 5.000 comments
## Size of comments and descriptions of issues, merge requests, and epics
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/61974) in GitLab 12.2.
There is a limit to the size of comments and descriptions of issues, merge requests, and epics.
Attempting to add a body of text larger than the limit will result in an error, and the
item will not be created.
It's possible that this limit will be changed to a lower number in the future.
- **Max size:** ~1 million characters / ~1 MB
## Number of pipelines per Git push
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/51401) in GitLab 11.10.
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......@@ -350,14 +350,6 @@ You can [award an emoji](../../award_emojis.md) to that epic or its comments.
You can [turn on notifications](../../profile/notifications.md) to be alerted about epic events.
## Limits
This section gives an overview of limits of Epics and an overview of their background.
### Description and comment length
See [Issues: Description and comment length](../../project/issues/index.md#description-and-comment-length)
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......@@ -201,18 +201,3 @@ Feature.disable(:save_issuable_health_status)
- [Issues API](../../../api/issues.md)
- Configure an [external issue tracker](../../../integration/external-issue-tracker.md)
such as Jira, Redmine, or Bugzilla.
## Limits
This section gives an overview of limits of Issues and an overview of their background.
### Description and comment length
> Introduced in [GitLab 12.2](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/61974).
Descriptions and comments on [issuable](../../../development/issuable-like-models.md) can be no
longer than 1 million characters.
Previously, there was no limit to issuable description size, which created a
[possibility of a DoS attack](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/61974) by allowing
very long descriptions. It's possible that we will set this limit to a lower number in the future.
......@@ -124,11 +124,3 @@ There are two main ways to have a merge request flow with GitLab:
1. Working with forks of an authoritative project
[Learn more about the authorization for merge requests.](authorization_for_merge_requests.md)
## Limits
This section gives an overview of limits of Merge Requests and an overview of their background.
### Description and comment length
See [Issues: Description and comment length](../issues/index.md#description-and-comment-length)
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