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---
+stage: Create
+group: Source Code
+info: "To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers"
type: reference
---
@@ -10,7 +13,7 @@ Code Intelligence adds code navigation features common to interactive
development environments (IDE), including:
- Type signatures and symbol documentation.
-- Go-to definition
+- Go-to definition.
Code Intelligence is built into GitLab and powered by [LSIF](https://lsif.dev/)
(Language Server Index Format), a file format for precomputed code
@@ -39,6 +42,36 @@ After the job succeeds, code intelligence data can be viewed while browsing the
![Code intelligence](img/code_intelligence_v13_1.png)
+## Find references
+
+> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217392) in GitLab 13.2.
+> - [Became enabled by default](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/225621) on GitLab 13.3.
+> - It's enabled on GitLab.com.
+
+To find where a particular object is being used, you can see links to specific lines of code
+under the **References** tab:
+
+![Find references](img/code_intelligence_find_references_v13_3.png)
+
+### Enable or disable find references
+
+Find references is under development but ready for production use.
+It is deployed behind a feature flag that is **enabled by default**.
+[GitLab administrators with access to the GitLab Rails console](../../administration/feature_flags.md)
+can opt to disable it for your instance.
+
+To disable it:
+
+```ruby
+Feature.disable(:code_navigation_references)
+```
+
+To enable it:
+
+```ruby
+Feature.enable(:code_navigation_references)
+```
+
## Language support
Generating an LSIF file requires a language server indexer implementation for the