Inconsistent rebase status in merge request
- Backend weight: 3
- Frontend weight: 3
Summary
The rebase status changes somewhat unpredictably when using the rebase button inside GitLab. It appears that the status isn't stored in the repo and maybe isn't being tracked cleanly in the UI (maybe we are losing state).
Steps to reproduce
- Create a project with fast-forward merge enabled
- Create a merge request with changes to
master
- Make changes to
master
- Try to rebase the merge request feature branch
Failures/strange behavior appears to be intermittent. I suspect it's a situation where the rebase isn't possible and fails, but no failure status is being returned to the merge request widget.
Example Project
TBD
What is the current bug behavior?
Rebase status flicks backwards and forwards between rebase button, and rebase in-progress, and sometimes from offering the rebase button to a prompt to reload the page.
What is the expected correct behavior?
Status should transition cleanly between states.
Relevant logs and/or screenshots
Screen_Recording_2018-11-15_at_2.26.13_PM
Everytime I clicked the rebase button I received a 200 OK
status from POST http://localhost:3004/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3/rebase
with an empty response body, at which point it would return to the rebase state.
Output of checks
This bug happens on GitLab.com
Possible fixes
(If you can, link to the line of code that might be responsible for the problem)