Code Owners

Gitea maintains code owner files. It looks for it in the following locations in this order:

./CODEOWNERS
./docs/CODEOWNERS
./.gitea/CODEOWNERS

And stops at the first found file.

File format: <regexp rule> <@user or @org/team> [@user or @org/team]...

Regexp specified in golang Regex format. Regexp can start with ! for negative rules - match all files except specified.

Example file:

.*\\.go @user1 @user2 # This is comment

# Comment too
# You can assigning code owning for users or teams
frontend/src/.*\\.js @org1/team1 @org1/team2 @user3

# You can use negative pattern
!frontend/src/.* @org1/team3 @user5

# You can use power of go regexp
docs/(aws|google|azure)/[^/]*\\.(md|txt) @user8 @org1/team4
!/assets/.*\\.(bin|exe|msi) @user9

Code owners listed in this file will automatically be requested to review pull requests that modify files matching at least one corresponding rule.

Escaping

You can escape characters #, (space) and \ with \, like:

dir/with\#hashtag @user1
path\ with\ space @user2
path/with\\backslash @user3

Some character (.+*?()|[]{}^$\) should be escaped with \\ inside regexp, like:

path/\\.with\\.dots
path/with\\+plus

Branch Protection Rules

When setting up branch protection rules, you may choose to enforce code owner approval of modified files. This will block a PR from being merged until at least one code owner has given approval for every applicable rule listed in the CODEOWNERS file.

For example, say you have the following CODEOWNERS file:

.*\\.go @Bob
.*\\.md @Sally @Chris
migrations/.* @Alice

This means that:

If your PR modifies any .go files, it will require approval from Bob.
If your PR modifies any .md files, it will require approval from either Sally or Chris.
If your PR modifies any file in the migrations directory, it will require approval from Alice.

These rules are composable. So, for example, if your PR modifies some .go files, as well as some .md files, this means it will require approval from Bob, in addition to approval from one of either Sally or Chris.