Creating your first merge request

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.

Getting ready

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.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to create a merge request:

1. Go to the project on your local machine:

   cd ~/Development/super-git/
   

2. Make sure you're on the master branch:

   git checkout master
   

3. Before we make any changes to the code, we want to create a new feature branch:

   git checkout -b awesome-feature
   

4. Let's make a change to the README.md file:

   echo "Change" >> README.md
   

5. Now, we will...