How to delete projects immediately?

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This feature is intended to protect us, but I do need to delete some projects immediately.
I didn’t find any configs useful in gitlab.rb.
Anyone can help?

Thank you

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As you talk about gitlab.rb, I assume this is on a self-hosted installation?

How are you deleting projects?

When I go to “Settings”/“General”/“Advanced”/“Remove project”, the projects are deleted immediately (more or less, it might take a few seconds).

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It may related to free trial of GitLab-EE

I get this option might be appealing for some users but making it default and then not allowing it to be overridden is a real pain.

The rename workaround is a good idea but unfortunately doesn’t work if you’re mirroring repositories from GitHub.

Is there another way to override this?

Currently I have to wait a week before I’m able to re-import my repository.

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This is very stupid feature. I was just evaluating a GitLab as a pipeline for github projects. Imported through different user seat, wanted to change by removing and reimporting the projects and started to get this problem. What a set back - I think I will have to advise the CEO to look elsewhere. This does not protect anything, as the code is hosted on github. It is just annoying paid version bug.

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Even after renaming the “slug” remains blocked:

Thanks for the feedback! Here is an issue that proposes a way to enable over-riding the default “soft delete” behavior so that a project/group can be immediately deleted.

Please check it out and contribute additional use cases and/or needs that should be taken into consideration as we iterate on this feature.

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