How to checkout merge request locally, and create new local branch?

Question

I have GitLab repository there and I need to test every merge request locally, before merging to the target branch.

How can I pull/fetch merge request as a new branch?<

Answer 1

This is also documented in GitLab online documentation : https://gitlab.com/help/user/project/merge_requests/index.md#checkout-merge-requests-locally

They supply this script (git alias) :

[alias]
    mr = !sh -c 'git fetch $1 merge-requests/$2/head:mr-$1-$2 && git checkout mr-$1-$2' -

Then you can use this command :

git mr origin 4

So a new local branch mr-origin-4 will be created.