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diff --git a/doc/development/limit_ee_conflicts.md b/doc/development/limit_ee_conflicts.md index 568dedf1669..2d82b09f301 100644 --- a/doc/development/limit_ee_conflicts.md +++ b/doc/development/limit_ee_conflicts.md @@ -2,19 +2,26 @@ This guide contains best-practices for avoiding conflicts between CE and EE. -## Context +## Daily CE Upstream merge -Usually, GitLab Community Edition is merged into the Enterprise Edition once a -week. During these merges, it's very common to get conflicts when some changes -in CE do not apply cleanly to EE. +GitLab Community Edition is merged daily into the Enterprise Edition (look for +the [`CE Upstream` merge requests]). The daily merge is currently done manually +by four individuals. -There are a few things that can help you as a developer to: +**If a developer pings you in a `CE Upstream` merge request for help with +resolving conflicts, please help them because it means that you didn't do your +job to reduce the conflicts nor to ease their resolution in the first place!** -- know when your merge request to CE will conflict when merged to EE -- avoid such conflicts in the first place -- ease future conflict resolutions if conflict is inevitable +To avoid the conflicts beforehand when working on CE, there are a few tools and +techniques that can help you: -## Check the `rake ee_compat_check` in your merge requests +- know what are the usual types of conflicts and how to prevent them +- the CI `rake ee_compat_check` job tells you if you need to open an EE-version + of your CE merge request + +[`CE Upstream` merge requests]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests?label_name%5B%5D=CE+upstream + +## Check the status of the CI `rake ee_compat_check` job For each commit (except on `master`), the `rake ee_compat_check` CI job tries to detect if the current branch's changes will conflict during the CE->EE merge. |