That's great to hear. It's a big community that makes this happen.

palidanx · on Feb 22, 2016

Just curious, were there any new changes made to branch creation and protected branches? I'm getting a

Branch creation was rejected by Git hook

When trying to create branches via my gitlab instance and it seems to take a lot longer to process the request. Pushing via a command shell seems to work well.

--update I just rolled back my version to the older version and see that all of the branch functionality via the gitlab site works okay.

sytse · on Feb 23, 2016

I'm not aware of any changes that would explain that error, but that doesn't mean it can't be a regression in 8.5. If so please open an issue for it and link from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13350