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authorJob van der Voort <job@gitlab.com>2016-09-14 12:18:37 +0000
committerJob van der Voort <job@gitlab.com>2016-09-14 12:18:37 +0000
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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
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@@ -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`: