Create Your Merge Request

Background

When developers around the world to collaborate on large projects, how do they ensure that there is order when merging branches back into the main or master branch?

Well...they submit a request to the repository maintainers with merge access to merge their changes. Thus, we have the merge request.

A Merge Request (MR) is a request to merge one branch into another.

You may have heard of pull requests and merge request. While both mean the same thing, the difference is that pull request is used by Github and merge request is used by Gitlab.

Previously, we had created a new branch inside our fork and committed our profile data model's changes to that branch.

We now need to merge these changes into the master branch of the source repository so we can see our profile appear on the live https://org.grey.software website.

Action Items

✅ Create A Merge Request (MR)

Click on the Create Merge Request button from your branch's page

Creating your merge request

Inside your MR, don't worry about any details other than the title!

and Submit the Merge Request to the Reviewer.

Your new merge request

Someone from our team will review your changes and merge them into the master branch if accepted.

✅ Now...we wait!

Once your merge request has been approved, head over to our explorers page! and you'll see your profile card.

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Note that it may take a couple minutes for the website to rebuild once your changes have been merged in, so you may have to wait before you see your profile card up on the website.