Commit 72e9f63f authored by Job van der Voort's avatar Job van der Voort

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
parents eab72755 07b127ce
...@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ A merge request contains all the history from a repository, plus the additional ...@@ -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 commits added to the branch associated with the merge request. Here's a few
tricks to checkout a merge request locally. 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 #### Checkout locally by adding a git alias
Add the following alias to your `~/.gitconfig`: Add the following alias to your `~/.gitconfig`:
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