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| author | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2016-09-14 12:18:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2016-09-14 12:18:37 +0000 |
| commit | 72e9f63ff722585ba75abbf4635f649e88709a70 (patch) | |
| tree | 769abb440723399c3100553bca5d47322e2811d2 | |
| parent | eab72755cd9e0ac7f9ba6d30ad877b3aef14841b (diff) | |
| parent | 07b127ce6064e962d7e8d469aa2148dc3504df8f (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-72e9f63ff722585ba75abbf4635f649e88709a70.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'document-checkout-mr-from-forks-locally' into 'master'
Document the fact that merge requests from forks can be checked out locally
As pointed out by @JobV, our documentation doesn't clearly state that you can checkout a merge request from a fork locally.
See merge request !6324
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/project/merge_requests.md | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md b/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md index f79535d1542..5af9a5d049c 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md +++ b/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ A merge request contains all the history from a repository, plus the additional commits added to the branch associated with the merge request. Here's a few tricks to checkout a merge request locally. +Please note that you can checkout a merge request locally even if the source +project is a fork (even a private fork) of the target project. + #### Checkout locally by adding a git alias Add the following alias to your `~/.gitconfig`: |