Include entire discussion thread in email notifications
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Problem to solve
Quite often I leave some comments on merge requests asking to clarify certain things. When someone replies on my comment, GitLab sends me an email notification in the following format:
<Person> commented on a discussion on <file name in merge request>:
<code snippet>
<Their reply>However the email doesn't contain previous message(s) from this discussion, so it is often not obvious to me, what question is being answered. Sometimes the answer is as short as a simple "yes", but I have no idea what this "yes" means, I'm forced to open the merge request in the browser and look at the entire thread to get some context.
Further details
By comparison Crucible includes the entire thread in the email notification so that it is entirely actionable from email.
Proposal
Please put the previous messages from the discussion to the email notification, so that it is possible to get the context of what is being replied directly from the email.