How to create a merge request from an already pushed commit from CLI?

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I have a branch called dev which is up-to-date with the origin/dev. I want to merge into the (protected) master with the following command, but it doesn't push either create the merge request.

$ git push -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.target=master
Everything up-to-date

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '20 at 17:18

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If your dev branch is up to date with the dev branch on origin, your git push command won't do anyting, because Everything up-to-date.

To create the merge request from CLI, create a new branch (from dev) to make the push happen:

git checkout -b dev2
git push -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.target=master

answered Apr 29 '20 at 17:18

Aleksey Tsalolikhin

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With `merge_request.remove_source_branch` option this is a good solution. Otherwise, there will be a branch flood. – betontalpfa Apr 30 '20 at 09:06
Good catch. Thank you. – Aleksey Tsalolikhin Apr 30 '20 at 13:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '22 at 01:23

I was trying to automate merge request creation, but wanted to do the push 1st and later on to create the actual merge request. I have used this trick to do it, after the original push went to the remote:

git commit --amend --no-edit
git push --force-with-lease  origin [branch_name] -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.target=master

The amend will keep the original commit unchanged, and allow you to push the same branch while creating the merge request.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '20 at 09:34

This solution is based on this, but mine is more general. The solution below creates a custom-named branch to push it, and it requests the delete of the newly created branch on merge.

# Create new unique merge-request branch ex: 1234abc-to-master
git checkout -b `git rev-parse --short HEAD`"-to-master"

# Create merge request with upstream this new branch
git push -u origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.target=master -o merge_request.remove_source_branch

How to create a merge request from an already pushed commit from CLI?

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