Gitlab is not closing issues I reference through a commit

Question

Gitlab doesn't close issues I created and then closed in a commit.

I'm using GitLab 7.2.1 ff1633f and the following commits have been tried:

• Closes (#1)
• Closes[#1]
• Closes #1
• Fixes[#1]
• Fixes (#1)
• Fixes #1
• Fixes issue #1

I have no clue where the error might be, for asfar as I can see, there are no errors, commits just neatly get into Gitlab, it all works, I even can click the issue number in commits, but it just doesn't close them.

What is the problem here?

Answer 1

It is likely a bug, possible duplicate of: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/8063 Now nuked by GitLab with all other GitHub issues, and has no Wayback Machine archive either. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/issues/394 seems related.

I recommend always looking there first for things that look like bugs.