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800# gorilla. don't think gitlab supports this either. that probably leaves self-hosting and all the brittleness and pain around that.

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An aside, but is it a standard thing to write # to mean "pound" when you're talking about pounds as a unit of weight? Like as opposed to "800lb"? I knew what you meant, it's just I've never seen that notation before so I'm wondering if you just made it up or if I'm out of the loop somehow.

Using hash-mark to mean “pounds” goes back to 1850 at least.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

A few decades ago, it was very common to see at the deli counter, in the handwritten prices on signs jabbed into lunch meats and such. And on the price signs above the vegetable bins at the supermarket. In the US, anyway.

Correct, there's no way to restrict GitLab merge requests to trusted users, while still allowing others to view merge requests. It's either visible/accessible to all, or only to project members.

GitLab can have this “feature” if the accounts are locked behind an entity like a school which doesn’t allow arbitrary users to make a new account

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