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%h3.page_title Gitlab Flavored Markdown
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.back_link
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= link_to help_path do
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← to index
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.row
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.span8
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%p
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For Gitlab we developed something we call "Gitlab Flavored Markdown" (GFM).
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It extends the standard Markdown in a few significant ways adds some useful functionality.
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%p You can use GFM in:
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%ul
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%li commit messages
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%li comments
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%li wall posts
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%li issues
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%li merge requests
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%li milestones
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%li wiki pages
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%h3 Differences from traditional Markdown
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%h4 Newlines
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%p
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The biggest difference that GFM introduces is in the handling of linebreaks.
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With traditional Markdown you can hard wrap paragraphs of text and they will be combined into a single paragraph. We find this to be the cause of a huge number of unintentional formatting errors.
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GFM treats newlines in paragraph-like content as real line breaks, which is probably what you intended.
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%p The next paragraph contains two phrases separated by a single newline character:
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%pre= "Roses are red\nViolets are blue"
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%p becomes
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= markdown "Roses are red\nViolets are blue"
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%h4 Multiple underscores in words
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%p
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It is not reasonable to italicize just <em>part</em> of a word, especially when you're dealing with code and names often appear with multiple underscores.
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Therefore, GFM ignores multiple underscores in words.
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%pre= "perform_complicated_task\ndo_this_and_do_that_and_another_thing"
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%p becomes
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= markdown "perform_complicated_task\ndo_this_and_do_that_and_another_thing"
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%h4 URL autolinking
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%p
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GFM will autolink standard URLs you copy and paste into your text.
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So if you want to link to a URL (instead of a textual link), you can simply put the URL in verbatim and it will be turned into a link to that URL.
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%h4 Fenced code blocks
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%p
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Markdown converts text with four spaces at the front of each line to code blocks.
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GFM supports that, but we also support fenced blocks.
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Just wrap your code blocks in <code>```</code> and you won't need to indent manually to trigger a code block.
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%pre= %Q{```ruby\nrequire 'redcarpet'\nmarkdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")\nputs markdown.to_html\n```}
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%p becomes
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= markdown %Q{```ruby\nrequire 'redcarpet'\nmarkdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")\nputs markdown.to_html\n```}
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%h4 Special Gitlab references
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%p
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GFM recognizes special references.
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You can easily reference e.g. a team member, an issue or a commit within a project.
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GFM will turn that reference into a link so you can navigate between them easily.
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%p GFM will recognize the following references:
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%ul
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%li
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%code @foo
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for team members
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%li
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%code #123
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for issues
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%li
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%code !123
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for merge request
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%li
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%code $123
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for snippets
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%li
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%code 1234567
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for commits
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-# this example will only be shown if the user has a project with at least one issue
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- if @project = current_user.projects.first
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- if issue = @project.issues.first
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%p For example in your #{link_to @project.name, project_path(@project)} project something like
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%pre= "This is related to ##{issue.id}. @#{current_user.name} is working on solving it."
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%p becomes
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= markdown "This is related to ##{issue.id}. @#{current_user.name} is working on solving it."
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%p
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If you're not already familiar with Markdown, you should spend 15 minutes and go over the excellent
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%strong= link_to "Markdown Syntax Guide", "http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax"
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at Daring Fireball.
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