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authorJan Provaznik <jprovaznik@gitlab.com>2017-08-24 08:20:36 +0200
committerJan Provaznik <jan.provaznik@gmail.com>2017-12-05 08:41:58 +0100
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Create merge request from email
* new merge request can be created by sending an email to the specific email address (similar to creating issues by email) * for the first iteration, source branch must be specified in the mail subject, other merge request parameters can not be set yet * user should enable "Receive notifications about your own activity" in user settings to receive a notification about created merge request Part of #32878
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ With GitLab merge requests, you can:
- [Resolve merge conflicts from the UI](#resolve-conflicts)
- Enable [fast-forward merge requests](#fast-forward-merge-requests)
- Enable [semi-linear history merge requests](#semi-linear-history-merge-requests) as another security layer to guarantee the pipeline is passing in the target branch
-
+- [Create new merge requests by email](#create_by_email)
With **[GitLab Enterprise Edition][ee]**, you can also:
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ those conflicts in the GitLab UI.
[Learn more about resolving merge conflicts in the UI.](resolve_conflicts.md)
+## Create new merge requests by email
+
+You can create a new merge request by sending an email to a user-specific email
+address. The address can be obtained on the merge requests page by clicking on
+a **Email a new merge request to this project** button. The subject will be
+used as the source branch name for the new merge request and the target branch
+will be the default branch for the project.
+
## Revert changes
GitLab implements Git's powerful feature to revert any commit with introducing