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@@ -15,6 +15,25 @@ Please note that you need to have builds configured to enable this feature.
## Checkout merge requests locally
+### By adding a git alias
+
+Add the following alias to your `~/.gitconfig`:
+
+```
+[alias]
+ mr = !sh -c 'git fetch $1 merge-requests/$2/head:mr-$1-$2 && git checkout mr-$1-$2' -
+```
+
+Now you can check out a particular merge request from any repository and any remote, e.g. to check out a merge request number 5 as shown in GitLab from the `upstream` remote, do:
+
+```
+$ git mr upstream 5
+```
+
+This will fetch the merge request into a local `mr-upstream-5` branch and check it out.
+
+### By modifying `.git/config` for a given repository
+
Locate the section for your GitLab remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
```
@@ -34,7 +53,7 @@ It should look like this:
fetch = +refs/merge-requests/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/merge-requests/*
```
-Now you can fetch all the merge requests requests:
+Now you can fetch all the merge requests:
```
$ git fetch origin
@@ -61,3 +80,11 @@ If you click the "Hide whitespace changes" button, you can see the diff without
It is also working on commits compare view.
![Commit Compare](merge_requests/commit_compare.png)
+
+## Merge Requests versions
+
+Every time you push to merge request branch, a new version of merge request diff
+is created. When you visit the merge request page you see latest version of changes.
+However you can select an older one from version dropdown
+
+![Merge Request Versions](merge_requests/versions.png)