Feature Request: Set Reviewer via Push Option

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Release notes

Currently when pushing upstream to a GitLab repository you can create merge requests and set additional properties of the merge request via push options. Currently capabilities include title, assignee, description, milestone and labels, among others, but do not include the ability to set reviewers. This proposal would add the ability to specify reviewers via a push option the same way a user can be assigned.

Reference https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html#push-options-for-merge-requests

Problem to solve

Currently, developers cannot set a reviewer when they create a merge request using git push options. Current workarounds are to create the merge request manually through the GitLab UI, or create the merge request through a push option and then subsequently log into the UI and set the reviewer. This slows down developer productivity because it requires manual intervention via the UI instead of being able to accomplish this directly from their development shell.

Proposal

Additional push option will be added to GitLab allowing the user to add a reviewer.

git push origin -u upstream_branch -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.reviewer="<user>"

Intended users

• Delaney
• Sasha

Feature Usage Metrics

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