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Configure GitLab Issue Tracking Instance on your project or parent folder. Issue Tracking configurations are inherited by sub-folder and projects. This configuration will allow you to integrate GitLab issues with your builds. See Configure Project for Issue Tracking for more details.
Work Item pattern is optional, if specified his will used to parse commit logs work item numbers. Alternatively, you can just prefix work item numbers with # in commit message.
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using commit messages - use the format #issue for example, #Denver-1. Or you use Denver-1234 in commit message if Denver- is setup as work item pattern.
manually at build time - just specify work item number(s) on build request form in work items input. Note that # prefix only necessary with commit message.
manually with package - just specify work item number(s) on package configuration.
See Associate Work Items to a Build for more information about linking Work Items to builds.
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