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Workspace watsonx.ai
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Created on Feb 17, 2025

Support specifying user email for Gitlab Self-Managed

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Currently, when creating a personal access token in the Watson Studio "Gitlab Self-Managed" integration (checked as of WS 10.0.0, CP4D 5.1), it's not possible to specifiy a git user email, only a user name. Instead, the email in the main CP4D account is used. When none is specified there, "noreply@ibm.com" is used. This is not communicated anywhere and needs to be inferred from the commits created when using the git integration. 

Especially when the git instance is configured to reject pushes by unknown users as a security feature, as is possible in Gitlab using its "Push rules" feature, specifically settings like "check whether the commit author is a gitlab author" - this is problematic. Scenarios where different emails are have to be used for Gitlab and CP4D authentication are also not covered. In our case, we happen to use the same email adresses for both, but this is not necessarily the case.

We would need an additional, optional field for the gitlab user email in the form and for this email to be used as git config mail throughout the integration. This would increase transparency, avoid issues with the push rules and decouple the emails that should be unrelated anyway.

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