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This will allow for the removal of a lot of duplication from the
reference filters.

For simplicity's sake, since we're testing the actual referencing, we
just force the permission check to always be allowed.

Commit ranges, commits, external issues, issues, labels, merge requests,
snippets, users.

Bootlint integration

Clean up code around commit mentions.

Builds upon !527.

See merge request !528

Revert disallowing usernames to end in period.

cc @JobV @jacobvosmaer

See merge request !545

improve new project options

* Simplify new repo commands
* Include directions for how to add an existing folder that is either
already a repo or not yet a repo

Replaces #7918.

Remove access control for uploaded images to fix broken images in emails

Replaces !530.

> This MR removes the access control for uploaded images. This is needed to display the images in emails again.
>
> The previous solution to base64 encode the images had to be reverted, because not all email clients supported it.
>
> If possible this should go into the 7.10 release.

See merge request !533

Ignore submodules that are defined in .gitmodules but are checked in as directories.

Pulls in gitlab_git 7.1.10 which contains gitlab-org/gitlab_git!26.

Fixes #1439 and https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/9140

See merge request !540

Fixed typo in deploy html

do not prepend relative_url_root to avatar

Parse GFM references after sanitizing

Parse GFM references - labels, issues, MRs, etc. - after calling the HTML Pipeline `SanitizationFilter` so that we can use non-whitelisted attributes like `style`.  See #2188.

See merge request !1745