From 5ef754e7e2318839714a5a432a903058045246b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Amirault Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 13:40:55 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Add caveat to codeowners doc --- doc/user/project/code_owners.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/user/project/code_owners.md b/doc/user/project/code_owners.md index 5dca1af83c1ae0..3cdf3f48f8e6af 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/code_owners.md +++ b/doc/user/project/code_owners.md @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ Once set, Code Owners are displayed in merge requests widgets: Files can be specified using the same kind of patterns you would use in the `.gitignore` file followed by the `@username` or email of one or more users or by the `@name` of one or more groups that should -be owners of the file. +be owners of the file. Groups must be added as [members of the project](members/index.md), +or they will be ignored. The order in which the paths are defined is significant: the last pattern that matches a given path will be used to find the code -- GitLab