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[Feature]: Enable setting `create_mr.title` in as function in `setup` options

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the doc/gitlab.nvim.txt setup documentation and trace the require("gitlab").setup and create_mr entry points described in the issue. Done means settings.create_mr.title accepts a string or Lua function and the resulting string is used for the GitLab Merge Request title.

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Description

feature request

Thanks for gitlab.nvim! Just started using this plugin today and I think it will be incredibly useful for my workflow.

Feature Description

After referencing :h gitlab.nvim, I can see that we can set the title for Merge Requests using require("gitlab").create_mr({ title = "Fix bug XYZ", description = "Closes #123" }), but we cannot set MR titles in the setup options.

This makes sense, because it would rarely be useful to always use the same title for every Merge Request, but I think it would be a useful option if not only users were able to also set settings.create_mr.title within our setup configuration to gitlab.nvim, but we were able to set the title by providing a function that will be called to generate the title - so this is sort of 2 feature requests.

  1. To allow users to configure settings.create_mr.title within the setup options and
  2. To allow users to provide a lua function to this property, that, when called will return a string that can be used for the GitLab MR.

Ideal Behavior

return {
	"harrisoncramer/gitlab.nvim",
	dependencies = {
		"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
		"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
		"sindrets/diffview.nvim",
		"stevearc/dressing.nvim",
		"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons",
	},
	build = function()
		require("gitlab.server").build(true)
	end, -- Builds the Go binary
	config = function()
		require("gitlab").setup({
			create_mr = {
				target = "main",
				template_file = "Default.md",
				title = function()
					-- My complicated function that will use some runtime logic to return a string to use for MR title
					return "foo(bar): baz"
				end,
			},
		})
	end,
}

Thanks again!

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