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How GitLab tracks vulnerabilities through refactors and reformatting

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What happened

Every day, security scans face the same problem: an agent or a developer adds a comment, reformats a file, or moves a function, and a naive vulnerability tracker suddenly reports the same finding twice. Security teams end up re-triaging issues they already dismissed, which causes futile auditing effort and erodes trust in the scan results. In 2022, we introduced advanced vulnerability tracking to tackle exactly this…

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