So our company is using Gitflow. Can't currently change that. I have looked into github-flow and gitlab-flow, but we can't currently move to a different model.
When finishing a hotfix or release branch, right now we don't use merge requests, but manually use gitflow to locally merge the branches into master/dev/release.
Is there a supposed way of finishing a branch using merge requests in Gitlab? We'd like to go protect the master and dev branches from pushes. It's just safer to let gitlab handle the actual merging.
I'd've opened an issue on gitlab directly, but I'm not actually sure where.
Edit: I also thought about making two Merge Requests in Gitlab, but that can't be the way either.