Commit dedd2212 authored by Marcel Amirault's avatar Marcel Amirault

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Remove all duplicated information, consolidate it all in
tables, and update links. First pass.
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- Compare the changes between two [branches](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-Nutshell#_git_branching)
- [Review and discuss](../../discussions/index.md#threads) the proposed modifications inline
- Live preview the changes when [Review Apps](../../../ci/review_apps/index.md) is configured for your project
- Build, test, and deploy your code in a per-branch basis with built-in [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md)
- Prevent the merge request from being merged before it's ready with [WIP MRs](#work-in-progress-merge-requests)
- View the deployment process through [Pipeline Graphs](../../../ci/pipelines.md#visualizing-pipelines)
- [Automatically close the issue(s)](../../project/issues/managing_issues.md#closing-issues-automatically) that originated the implementation proposed in the merge request
- Assign it to any registered user, and change the assignee how many times you need
- Assign a [milestone](../../project/milestones/index.md) and track the development of a broader implementation
- Organize your issues and merge requests consistently throughout the project with [labels](../../project/labels.md)
- Add a time estimation and the time spent with that merge request with [Time Tracking](../time_tracking.md#time-tracking)
- [Resolve merge conflicts from the UI](resolve_conflicts.md)
- Enable [fast-forward merge requests](fast_forward_merge.md)
- 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-new-merge-requests-by-email)
- [Allow collaboration](allow_collaboration.md) so members of the target project can push directly to the fork
- [Squash and merge](squash_and_merge.md) for a cleaner commit history
With **[GitLab Enterprise Edition](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/)**, you can also:
- Prepare a full review and submit it once it's ready with [Merge Request Reviews](../../discussions/index.md#merge-request-reviews-premium) **(PREMIUM)**
- View the deployment process across projects with [Multi-Project Pipelines](../../../ci/multi_project_pipelines.md) **(PREMIUM)**
- Request [approvals](merge_request_approvals.md) from your managers **(STARTER)**
- Analyze the impact of your changes with [Code Quality reports](code_quality.md) **(STARTER)**
- Manage the licenses of your dependencies with [License Compliance](../../application_security/license_compliance/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)**
- Analyze your source code for vulnerabilities with [Static Application Security Testing](../../application_security/sast/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)**
- Analyze your running web applications for vulnerabilities with [Dynamic Application Security Testing](../../application_security/dast/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)**
- Analyze your dependencies for vulnerabilities with [Dependency Scanning](../../application_security/dependency_scanning/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)**
- Analyze your Docker images for vulnerabilities with [Container Scanning](../../application_security/container_scanning/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)**
- Determine the performance impact of changes with [Browser Performance Testing](browser_performance_testing.md) **(PREMIUM)**
- Specify merge order dependencies with [Merge Request Dependencies](merge_request_dependencies.md) **(PREMIUM)**
### Creating merge requests
While directly making changes to files in a branch of a repository is possible, it is not
the common workflow. In most cases, a user will [create a merge request](creating_merge_requests.md),
which is then reviewed, updated, approved and merged into the target branch. In the
case of the master branch, most large projects require all changes to be submitted
through a merge request.
Creating merge requests in GitLab...
| Feature | Tier | Description |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Adding patches when creating a merge request via e-mail](#adding-patches-when-creating-a-merge-request-via-e-mail) | | |
| [Allow collaboration on merge requests across forks](#allow-collaboration-on-merge-requests-across-forks) | | |
| [Create new merge requests by email](#create-new-merge-requests-by-email) | | Create new merge requests by sending an email to a user-specific email address. |
| [Deleting the source branch](#deleting-the-source-branch) | | Select the "Delete source branch when merge request accepted" option and the source branch will be deleted when the merge request is merged. |
| [Ignore whitespace changes in Merge Request diff view](#ignore-whitespace-changes-in-Merge-Request-diff-view) | | |
| [Incrementally expand merge request diffs](#incrementally-expand-merge-request-diffs) | | |
| [Merge request approvals](merge_request_approvals.md) | Starter | Set the number of necessary approvals and predefine a list of approvers that will need to approve every merge request in a project. |
| [Merge Request Dependencies](merge_request_dependencies.md) | Premium | Specify that a merge request depends on other MRs. |
| [Merge request diff file navigation](#merge-request-diff-file-navigation) | | |
| [Merge Requests for Confidential Issues](../issues/confidential_issues.md#merge-requests-for-confidential-issues) | | Create merge requests to resolve confidential issues for preventing leakage or early release of sensitive data through regular merge requests. |
| [Multiple assignees](#multiple-assignees-starter) | Starter | Have multiple assignees for merge requests to indicate everyone that is reviewing or accountable for it. |
| [Security reports](../../application_security/index.md) | Ultimate | GitLab can scan and report any vulnerabilities found in your project. |
| [Squash and merge](#squash-and-merge) | | Squash all changes present in a merge request into a single commit when merging, to allow for a neater commit history. |
| [Work In Progress merge requests](#work-in-progress-merge-requests) | | |
| [Git push options](../push_options.md) | | Use Git push options to create or update merge requests when pushing changes to GitLab with Git, without needing to use the GitLab interface. |
| [View changes between file versions](#view-changes-between-file-versions) | | |
which is then reviewed, updated, approved and merged into the target branch. This is
especially true for merging changes from a feature branch into the master branch.
[Creating merge requests](creating_merge_requests.md), as well as [reviewing and managing them](#reviewing-and-managing-merge-requests),
is a fundamental part of working with GitLab.
A large number of features relate directly to the merge request creation process:
| Features to help create merge requests | Description |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Adding patches when creating a merge request via e-mail](creating_merge_requests.md#adding-patches-when-creating-a-merge-request-via-e-mail) | |
| [Allow collaboration on merge requests across forks](creating_merge_requests.md#allow-collaboration-on-merge-requests-across-forks) | |
| [Create new merge requests by email](creating_merge_requests.md#create-new-merge-requests-by-email) | Create new merge requests by sending an email to a user-specific email address. |
| [Deleting the source branch](creating_merge_requests.md#deleting-the-source-branch) | Select the "Delete source branch when merge request accepted" option and the source branch will be deleted when the merge request is merged. |
| [Ignore whitespace changes in Merge Request diff view](creating_merge_requests.md#ignore-whitespace-changes-in-Merge-Request-diff-view) | |
| [Incrementally expand merge request diffs](creating_merge_requests.md#incrementally-expand-merge-request-diffs) | |
| [Merge request approvals](merge_request_approvals.md) **(STARTER)** | Set the number of necessary approvals and predefine a list of approvers that will need to approve every merge request in a project. |
| [Merge Request Dependencies](merge_request_dependencies.md) **(PREMIUM)** | Specify that a merge request depends on other merge requests, enforcing a desired order of merging. |
| [Merge request diff file navigation](creating_merge_requests.md#merge-request-diff-file-navigation) | |
| [Merge Requests for Confidential Issues](../issues/confidential_issues.md#merge-requests-for-confidential-issues) | Create merge requests to resolve confidential issues for preventing leakage or early release of sensitive data through regular merge requests. |
| [Multiple assignees](creating_merge_requests.md#multiple-assignees-starter) **(STARTER)** | Have multiple assignees for merge requests to indicate everyone that is reviewing or accountable for it. |
| [Security reports](../../application_security/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | GitLab can scan and report any vulnerabilities found in your project. |
| [Squash and merge](creating_merge_requests.md#squash-and-merge) | Squash all changes present in a merge request into a single commit when merging, to allow for a neater commit history. |
| [Work In Progress merge requests](creating_merge_requests.md#work-in-progress-merge-requests) | Prevent the merge request from being merged before it's ready |
| [Git push options](../push_options.md) | Use Git push options to create or update merge requests when pushing changes to GitLab with Git, without needing to use the GitLab interface. |
| [View changes between file versions](#view-changes-between-file-versions) | |
### Reviewing and managing merge requests
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Additionally, GitLab has many features that help maintainers manage the merge
requests in a project...
| Feature | Tier | Description |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Bulk editing merge requests](../../project/bulk_editing.md) | | |
| [Cherry-pick changes](cherry_pick_changes.md) | | Cherry-pick any commit in the UI by simply clicking the **Cherry-pick** button in a merged merge requests or a commit. |
| [Commenting on any file line in merge requests](#commenting-on-any-file-line-in-merge-requests) | | |
| [Fast-forward merge requests](fast_forward_merge.md) | | For a linear Git history and a way to accept merge requests without creating merge commits |
| [Find the merge request that introduced a change](versions.md) | | When viewing the commit details page, GitLab will link to the merge request(s) containing that commit. |
| [Live preview with Review Apps](#live-preview-with-review-apps) | | |
| [Merge requests versions](versions.md) | | Select and compare the different versions of merge request diffs |
| [Merge when pipeline succeeds](merge_when_pipeline_succeeds.md) | | Set a merge request that looks ready to merge to merge automatically when CI pipeline succeeds. |
| [Perform a Review](../../discussions/index.md#merge-request-reviews-premium) | Premium | Start a review in order to create multiple comments on a diff and publish them once you're ready. |
| [Pipeline status in merge requests](#pipeline-status-in-merge-requests) | | |
| [Post-merge pipeline status](#post-merge-pipeline-status) | | |
| [Resolve conflicts](resolve_conflicts.md) | | GitLab can provide the option to resolve certain merge request conflicts in the GitLab UI. |
| [Resolve threads in merge requests reviews](../../discussions/index.md) | | Keep track of the progress during a code review by resolving comments. |
| [Revert changes](revert_changes.md) | | Revert changes from any commit from within a merge request. |
| [Semi-linear history merge requests](#semi-linear-history-merge-requests) | | |
| [Suggest changes](../../discussions/index.md#suggest-changes) | | Add suggestions to change the content of merge requests directly into merge request threads, and easily apply them to the codebase directly from the UI. |
| [View group merge requests](#view-group-merge-requests) | | |
| [View project merge requests](#view-project-merge-requests) | | |
| [Authorization for merge requests](#authorization-for-merge-requests) | | |
| Features to help review and manage merge requests | Description |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Bulk editing merge requests](../../project/bulk_editing.md) | |
| [Cherry-pick changes](cherry_pick_changes.md) | Cherry-pick any commit in the UI by simply clicking the **Cherry-pick** button in a merged merge requests or a commit. |
| [Commenting on any file line in merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#commenting-on-any-file-line-in-merge-requests) | |
| [Fast-forward merge requests](fast_forward_merge.md) | For a linear Git history and a way to accept merge requests without creating merge commits |
| [Find the merge request that introduced a change](versions.md) | When viewing the commit details page, GitLab will link to the merge request(s) containing that commit. |
| [Live preview with Review Apps](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#live-preview-with-review-apps) | Live preview the changes when Review Apps are configured for your project |
| [Merge requests versions](versions.md) | Select and compare the different versions of merge request diffs |
| [Merge when pipeline succeeds](merge_when_pipeline_succeeds.md) | Set a merge request that looks ready to merge to merge automatically when CI pipeline succeeds. |
| [Perform a Review](../../discussions/index.md#merge-request-reviews-premium) **(PREMIUM)** | Start a review in order to create multiple comments on a diff and publish them once you're ready. |
| [Pipeline status in merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#pipeline-status-in-merge-requests) | |
| [Post-merge pipeline status](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#post-merge-pipeline-status) | |
| [Resolve conflicts](resolve_conflicts.md) | GitLab can provide the option to resolve certain merge request conflicts in the GitLab UI. |
| [Resolve threads in merge requests reviews](../../discussions/index.md) | Keep track of the progress during a code review by resolving comments. |
| [Revert changes](revert_changes.md) | Revert changes from any commit from within a merge request. |
| [Semi-linear history merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#semi-linear-history-merge-requests) | Enable semi-linear history merge requests as another security layer to guarantee the pipeline is passing in the target branch |
| [Suggest changes](../../discussions/index.md#suggest-changes) | Add suggestions to change the content of merge requests directly into merge request threads, and easily apply them to the codebase directly from the UI. |
| [View group merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#view-group-merge-requests) | |
| [View project merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#view-project-merge-requests) | |
| [Authorization for merge requests](reviewing_and_managing_merge_requests.md#authorization-for-merge-requests) | |
### Testing and reports in merge requests
GitLab has the ability to do various tests on the changes included in a merge request,
and link to them directly from within the merge request page...
| Feature | Tier | Description |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Pipelines for merge requests](../../../ci/merge_request_pipelines/index.md) | | Customize a specific pipeline structure for merge requests in order to speed the cycle up by running only important jobs. |
| Multi-Project pipelines | Premium | |
| [Browser Performance Testing](browser_performance_testing.md) | Premium | Quickly determine the performance impact of pending code changes. |
| [Code Quality](code_quality.md) | Starter | Analyze your source code quality using the [Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/) analyzer and show the Code Climate report right in the merge request widget area. |
| [JUnit test reports](../../../ci/junit_test_reports.md) | | Configure your CI jobs to use JUnit test reports, and let GitLab display a report on the merge request so that it’s easier and faster to identify the failure without having to check the entire job log. |
| [Metrics Reports](../../../ci/metrics_reports.md) | Premium | display the Metrics Report on the merge request so that it's fast and easy to identify changes to important metrics. |
| Container Scanning | (Ultimate) | |
| DAST | (Ultimate) | |
| Dependency Scanning | (Ultimate) | |
| License compliance | (Ultimate) | |
| SAST | (Ultimate) | |
## Authorization for merge requests
| Features that can display important information in merge requests | Description |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Pipelines for merge requests](../../../ci/merge_request_pipelines/index.md) | Customize a specific pipeline structure for merge requests in order to speed the cycle up by running only important jobs. |
| [Multi-Project pipelines](../../../ci/multi_project_pipelines.md) **(PREMIUM)** | When you set up GitLab CI/CD across multiple projects, you can visualize the entire pipeline, including all cross-project interdependencies. |
| [Browser Performance Testing](browser_performance_testing.md) **(PREMIUM)** | Quickly determine the performance impact of pending code changes. |
| [Code Quality](code_quality.md) **(STARTER)** | Analyze your source code quality using the [Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/) analyzer and show the Code Climate report right in the merge request widget area. |
| [JUnit test reports](../../../ci/junit_test_reports.md) | Configure your CI jobs to use JUnit test reports, and let GitLab display a report on the merge request so that it’s easier and faster to identify the failure without having to check the entire job log. |
| [Metrics Reports](../../../ci/metrics_reports.md) **(PREMIUM)** | Display the Metrics Report on the merge request so that it's fast and easy to identify changes to important metrics. |
| [Container Scanning](../../application_security/container_scanning/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Analyze your Docker images for vulnerabilities |
| [DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)](../../application_security/dast/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Analyze your running web applications for vulnerabilities |
| [Dependency Scanning](../../application_security/dependency_scanning/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Analyze your dependencies for vulnerabilities |
| [License Compliance](../../application_security/license_compliance/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Manage the licenses of your dependencies |
| [SAST (Static Application Security Testing)](../../application_security/sast/index.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Analyze your source code for vulnerabilities |
### Authorization for merge requests
There are two main ways to have a merge request flow with GitLab:
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There are many ways to work with merge requests.
| Feature | Tier | Description |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Bulk editing merge requests](../../project/bulk_editing.md) | | |
| [Cherry-pick changes](cherry_pick_changes.md) | | Cherry-pick any commit in the UI by simply clicking the **Cherry-pick** button in a merged merge requests or a commit. |
| [Commenting on any file line in merge requests](#commenting-on-any-file-line-in-merge-requests) | | |
| [Fast-forward merge requests](fast_forward_merge.md) | | For a linear Git history and a way to accept merge requests without creating merge commits |
| [Find the merge request that introduced a change](versions.md) | | When viewing the commit details page, GitLab will link to the merge request(s) containing that commit. |
| [Live preview with Review Apps](#live-preview-with-review-apps) | | |
| [Merge requests versions](versions.md) | | Select and compare the different versions of merge request diffs |
| [Merge when pipeline succeeds](merge_when_pipeline_succeeds.md) | | Set a merge request that looks ready to merge to merge automatically when CI pipeline succeeds. |
| [Perform a Review](../../discussions/index.md#merge-request-reviews-premium) | Premium | Start a review in order to create multiple comments on a diff and publish them once you're ready. |
| [Pipeline status in merge requests](#pipeline-status-in-merge-requests) | | |
| [Post-merge pipeline status](#post-merge-pipeline-status) | | |
| [Resolve conflicts](resolve_conflicts.md) | | GitLab can provide the option to resolve certain merge request conflicts in the GitLab UI. |
| [Resolve threads in merge requests reviews](../../discussions/index.md) | | Keep track of the progress during a code review by resolving comments. |
| [Revert changes](revert_changes.md) | | Revert changes from any commit from within a merge request. |
| [Semi-linear history merge requests](#semi-linear-history-merge-requests) | | |
| [Suggest changes](../../discussions/index.md#suggest-changes) | | Add suggestions to change the content of merge requests directly into merge request threads, and easily apply them to the codebase directly from the UI. |
| [View group merge requests](#view-group-merge-requests) | | |
| [View project merge requests](#view-project-merge-requests) | | |
| [Authorization for merge requests](#authorization-for-merge-requests) | | |
## View project merge requests
View all the merge requests within a project by navigating to **Project > Merge Requests**.
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