Code Intelligence

Introduced in GitLab 13.1.

Code Intelligence adds code navigation features common to interactive development environments (IDE), including:

• Type signatures and symbol documentation.
• Go-to definition.

Code Intelligence is built into GitLab and powered by LSIF (Language Server Index Format), a file format for precomputed code intelligence data.

Configuration

Enable code intelligence for a project by adding a GitLab CI/CD job to the project's .gitlab-ci.yml which will generate the LSIF artifact:

code_navigation:
  image: sourcegraph/lsif-go:v1
  allow_failure: true # recommended
  script:
    - lsif-go
  artifacts:
    reports:
      lsif: dump.lsif

The generated LSIF file size may be limited by the artifact application limits (ci_max_artifact_size_lsif), default to 100MB (configurable by an instance administrator).

After the job succeeds, code intelligence data can be viewed while browsing the code:

Find references

• Introduced in GitLab 13.2.
• Feature flag removed in GitLab 13.4.

To find where a particular object is being used, you can see links to specific lines of code under the References tab:

Language support

Generating an LSIF file requires a language server indexer implementation for the relevant language.

Language	Implementation
Go	sourcegraph/lsif-go
JavaScript	sourcegraph/lsif-node
TypeScript	sourcegraph/lsif-node

View a complete list of available LSIF indexers on their website and refer to their documentation to see how to generate an LSIF file for your specific language.