moved devise_for :emails to live under `profiles`, removing the need

for `emails` to be a top level route

config/routes/profile.rb

+# for secondary email confirmations - uses the same confirmation controller as :users
+devise_for :emails, path: 'profile/emails', controllers: { confirmations: :confirmations }
+
 resource :profile, only: [:show, :update] do
   member do
     get :audit_log

config/routes/user.rb

@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ devise_scope :user do
   get '/users/almost_there' => 'confirmations#almost_there'
 end
 
-# for secondary email confirmations
-devise_for :emails, controllers: { confirmations: :confirmations }
-
 scope(constraints: { username: Gitlab::PathRegex.root_namespace_route_regex }) do
   scope(path: 'users/:username',
         as: :user,

lib/gitlab/path_regex.rb

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ module Gitlab
       ci
       dashboard
       deploy.html
-      emails
       explore
       favicon.ico
       files