Questions tagged [merge-request]
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How do you review changes of MR that depends on other MR being merged?
I am starting to work with other developers on a project where I have mostly worked alone up until now.
Our repo is hosted on GitLab and I am trying to figure out how to setup a simple git workflow for the team.
We have a master branch with the code…

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Adding GitLab hooks to catch Merge Requests that lack unit tests
I’ve been tasked with investigating whether something can be added to our MR approval process to highlight whether proposed Merge Requests (MRs) in GitLab, which are C++ based code, contain any new unit tests or modifications to existing tests. The…

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Not able to view the particular GitLab merge request in my repository
Not able to view the particular GitLab merge request in my repository:
While trying to view my repository’s particular merge request as below mentioned error occurred. I can able to view remaining all the merge requests in that repository, error…

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Is there a way to trigger different commit builds on merge requests based on different file changes in GitlabCI?
We are migrating from tfs to gitlab. Ours is a huge repository with multiple technology stack. And each solution has its own unit tests associated. We are planning to allow merge requests to successfully complete only upon successful build of that…

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Why git log graph of merged branch from GitLab was inverted?
As you can see in the image, feature branch number 668 has been merged into dev branch. But why the git graph appears like dev branch was merged into branch number 668 instead?
This behavior seems to happen only when do a merge request from…

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How to review a merge request with an automatic code styling change?
Assume that someone is working on legacy code where the complete code is incorrectly indented and every line validates the code-style guidelines.
The user then continues to make changes on a file (lets say with 3000 lines), and applies as a first…

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GitLab- List of reviewer
I am new to GitLab. I want to create a list of reviewers for my project. How do I can create it? I just want to assign a reviewer from my group to one merge-request.
TIA

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How to merge request a git branch created from an upstream tag
I created a new local branch from a tag contained in the upstream repo (git checkout -b mybranch upstreamTag). I pushed my local branch to my forked repo (git push -u origin mybranch). Now how can I submit a GitLab merge request to the upstream…

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How to trigger a Jenkins multibranch pipeline with merge request event?
I'm using Jenkins with private git repository manager.I created a multibranch pipeline to do CI.
I have use Basic Branch Build Strategies plugin to run pipeline when tag push event occurred.I also add Change Request in the Build Strategies…

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GitLab Merge Request attach a file
When I try to attach a file on my GitLab Merge Request, I see the below on the description text area,
My question is does GitLab store the attachments in a temporary storage? Also I see some random ids/keys generated in the path as seen in…

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Change one file of merge request without raising a new merge request
I did some changes in dev branch , committed and pushed (git push origin dev)and created a new merge request from gitlab frontend . But now i want to modify 1 file in same merge request without raising new one . Can I delete dev branch on remote and…

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file got changed on master after I raised the merge request
Trying to figure out how the file1.cpp will look after merging merge request in Gitlab . I(dev1) am working on the dev branch and changed line 2 of file1.cpp, committed and raised merge request . Now, I waited 1 day before merging . By the time…

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How to use a Gitlab Merge Request to finish a release/hotfix branch using Gitflow?
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…

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How to create grouped task lists in Markdown?
When creating different task lists in Markdown for Gitlabs templates, Gitlabs consider all the tasks from checklist as an individual count and shows count as total number of tasklist.
Like for below template -
## PR Checklist
Please check if your…

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Merge request sent from local branch to master while pushing some changes to local branch
We have 5 branches Master, INT, QA, PROD-EXT, PROD-INT.
Some changes were made in the QA server and the changes were pushed to the QA branch. Then Got an email saying "pushed new commits to merge request". We never requested for this to merge to…

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