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Editing and Creating a Merge Request

Creating a Merge Request Online

Go to the repo homepage, click Code to go to the code homepage, and create a branch based on the code branch to be merged. Select the branch to be modified, edit the code, and create a merge request.

  • To add a code file, click Create to create a code file, or upload one from your local PC. After modifying a branch, click Create MR on the right of Code, select the branch to be merged, and enter the title.
    For details about how to configure the change subject of a merge request, see Configuring a Change Topic.

    A branch name cannot start with hyphen (-), period (.) refs/heads/or refs/remotes/, nor end with . / .lock. Spaces and the following characters are not supported:. [ \ < ~ ^: ? ( ) ' " |

  • To modify a code file online, click the file name on the Code page and click . Edit and save the file. Click Create MR. You can view the file differences and commit records of the two branches in the lower part of the page.

    For details about how to configure the change subject of a merge request, see Configuring a Change Topic.

Configuring a Change Topic

Set the change topic to test. To copy the topic name, click . To disassociate the topic from the MR, click .

Note that a change topic:
  • Cannot use full-width or half-width quotation marks and cannot exceed 50 characters.
  • Can be used for multiple merge requests. To do so, enter the same change topic ("test" in this example) for the merge requests when you are creating them.