summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authordappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com>2018-09-19 13:22:33 +0200
committerdappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com>2018-09-19 13:22:33 +0200
commite2df834afe965bc1091b48f0b34f119fa7ede53e (patch)
tree111f3bfadd6f2c262aa76243284c7ede4d8ee31e /doc
parent37e16ccd1a9ce1a63759a916d75e441e95cb54f0 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-e2df834afe965bc1091b48f0b34f119fa7ede53e.tar.gz
Address Evan's comments
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md
index 489094fadc4..70555a893bb 100644
--- a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md
+++ b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md
@@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ From the image above, we can deduct the following things:
>**Note:**
You need to be an Owner of a group in order to be able to add members to it.
+>**Note:**
+A user's permissions in a subgroup cannot be lower than in any of its ancestor groups.
+Therefore, you cannot reduce a user's permissions in a subgroup with respect to its ancestor groups.
+
To override a user's membership of an ancestor group (the first group they were
-added to), simply add the user in the new subgroup again, but with a higher set of
-permissions. Note that a user's permissions in a subgroup cannot be lower
-than in any of its ancestor groups and, hence, you cannot reduce a user's permissions
-in a subgroup with respect to its ancestor groups.
+added to), add the user to the new subgroup again with a higher set of permissions.
For example, if User0 was first added to group `group-1/group-1-1` with Developer
permissions, then they will inherit those permissions in every other subgroup