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Prevent clutter for frequently force-pushed MR branches

Currently, If you

a) use WIP merge requests (or the notion that unassigned merge requests are still under construction) and

b) use force pushing to keep the history clean as also the Gitlab blog reccomends it,

your remote repository and your MR view will soon be polluted because all the previous force pushes are kept. See this extreme but real-world screenshot from one of our MRs. The scrollbar indicates how long this list of added commits, rewritten commits, ... is:

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There should be a button on the MR view which reads "clean up rewritten commits" which

  • removes all the unnecessary commit information from the MR overview
  • removes all the unnecessary commits from the bare git repository
  • removes all pipelines related to these deleted commits