Locally save uncommitted content
Zendesk issue: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/20020
When adding/editing a file in the WebUI, it would be helpful if the editor did a local save of content that is uncommitted. This is similar to what we already do with comments. Is this possible?
The reason this is requested is because a customer has a lower session time (20 minutes) and they ended up losing lots of content as they were editing a file for longer than 20 minutes. They clicked commit and lost all the work.
cc/ @felipe_artur Is this something you can take a look at, please?
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I think we need to discuss about this one. Can't we just keep session when a commit is being edited?
Can't we just keep session when a commit is being edited?
@felipe_artur That's smart! Not sure if there's any downside, though.
@rymai @felipe_artur Customer did mention that as a possibility. There may be some security concerns if someone walks away from the browser and leaves an edit screen open. Also, there is still a possibility to lose content if you commit and GitLab is down, network connection has gone away, etc. In this case, local storage of the content would be awesome.
@dblessing Thanks! Indeed, local storage is better I think.
@felipe_artur As mentioned, we do this in comments now.
@ernstvn Thanks! I'm all for this feature (I've come to really appreciate in my own usage how we do this in comments).
I don't believe this needs any additional UX work, though, unless we think that some of the error states will occur and need to be communicated. Let me know if I'm missing something
Edited by username-removed-711361moved from gitlab-foss#15189 (moved)
mentioned in commit 50c61ab6
