When you're done editing code, you might want your peers to review it. Instead of mailing patches around, you can do this in a super easy way in GitLab using a merge request.
A merge request is like an issue, but it has the diff of the code change attached to it, and users can create line-by-line comments on the code.
To follow this recipe, you need a project in GitLab, and you need that project cloned to your local system so that you can edit some code. I'll be using the super-git project we created in a previous chapter.
Perform the following steps to create a merge request:
Go to the project on your local machine:
cd ~/Development/super-git/Make sure you're on the
masterbranch:git checkout masterBefore we make any changes to the code, we want to create a new
featurebranch:git checkout -b awesome-featureLet's make a change to the
README.mdfile:echo "Change" >> README.mdNow, we will commit this change:
git commit -a...