Backport CE to changes to support group-level file templates

When the feature is available, this setting allows admins to choose a
project as a source of custom file templates. This is in addition to
any instance-wide templates, whether custom or vendored into the GitLab
codebase.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/groups.md b/doc/api/groups.md
index be75c363a40..a9462fc413f 100644
--- a/doc/api/groups.md
+++ b/doc/api/groups.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ GET /groups
     "request_access_enabled": false,
     "full_name": "Foobar Group",
     "full_path": "foo-bar",
+    "file_template_project_id": 1,
     "parent_id": null
   }
 ]
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ GET /groups?statistics=true
     "request_access_enabled": false,
     "full_name": "Foobar Group",
     "full_path": "foo-bar",
+    "file_template_project_id": 1,
     "parent_id": null,
     "statistics": {
       "storage_size" : 212,
@@ -122,6 +124,7 @@ GET /groups/:id/subgroups
     "request_access_enabled": false,
     "full_name": "Foobar Group",
     "full_path": "foo-bar",
+    "file_template_project_id": 1,
     "parent_id": 123
   }
 ]
@@ -232,6 +235,7 @@ Example response:
   "request_access_enabled": false,
   "full_name": "Twitter",
   "full_path": "twitter",
+  "file_template_project_id": 1,
   "parent_id": null,
   "projects": [
     {
@@ -386,6 +390,7 @@ Example response:
   "request_access_enabled": false,
   "full_name": "Twitter",
   "full_path": "twitter",
+  "file_template_project_id": 1,
   "parent_id": null
 }
 ```
@@ -442,6 +447,7 @@ PUT /groups/:id
 | `visibility` | string | no | The visibility level of the group. Can be `private`, `internal`, or `public`. |
 | `lfs_enabled` (optional) | boolean | no | Enable/disable Large File Storage (LFS) for the projects in this group |
 | `request_access_enabled` | boolean | no | Allow users to request member access. |
+| `file_template_project_id` | integer | no | **(Premium)** The ID of a project to load custom file templates from |
 
 ```bash
 curl --request PUT --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/5?name=Experimental"
@@ -462,6 +468,7 @@ Example response:
   "request_access_enabled": false,
   "full_name": "Foobar Group",
   "full_path": "foo-bar",
+  "file_template_project_id": 1,
   "parent_id": null,
   "projects": [
     {
diff --git a/doc/api/project_templates.md b/doc/api/project_templates.md
index ebdfa975849..ef98205cd68 100644
--- a/doc/api/project_templates.md
+++ b/doc/api/project_templates.md
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 # Project templates API
 
-This API is a project-specific implementation of these endpoints:
+This API is a project-specific version of these endpoints:
 
 - [Dockerfile templates](templates/dockerfiles.md)
 - [Gitignore templates](templates/gitignores.md)
 - [GitLab CI Config templates](templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md)
 - [Open source license templates](templates/licenses.md)
 
-It deprecates those endpoints, which will be removed for API version 5.
+It deprecates these endpoints, which will be removed for API version 5.
 
-Project-specific templates will be added to this API in time. This includes, but
-is not limited to:
+In addition to templates common to the entire instance, project-specific
+templates are also available from this API endpoint.
 
-- [Issue and Merge Request templates](../user/project/description_templates.html)
-- [Group level file templates](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5987) **(Premium)**
+Support will be added for [Issue and Merge Request templates](../user/project/description_templates.md)
+in a future release.
+
+Support for [Group-level file templates](../user/group/index.md#group-level-file-templates-premium)
+**[PREMIUM]** was [added](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5987)
+in GitLab 11.5
 
 ## Get all templates of a particular type