Configurable appearance of "large files" warning messages.
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The "collapsed files" messages take up a lot of space. Please allow users or organizations to disable this messaging.
At the top of the MR Changes window there is a large banner which says "Some changes are not shown" and "For a faster browsing experience, some files are collapsed by default." Then there's an "Expand all files" button.
In each file that's tagged in .gitattributes as gitlab-generated, I also get a big message for each file that "Generated files are collapsed by default. To change this behavior, edit the .gitattributes file." with a link to "Learn more" and a button on another line to "Expand file".
I've been using Gitlab for a year now and know how it works. I recently started using Ent with Go and it creates a ridiculous number of generated files and changes those files pretty much continuously. I edit a dozen files but over a hundred are in the Changes list, and using Ent basically means that any interesting change touches a lot of files... and this warning message takes up a lot of space.
What I would like to happen is to have these warnings completely go away. There's not a ton of point to collapse the files and put this message on every file and allow me to expand them all. I can expand the file with the little !chevron... but that's dodgy maybe in part because so many of these files have this warning message on them? (Today I tried to expand a file and found that the collapsed/warned entry stayed but the diff was actually open mid way up in the list of changes.)