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With both GitHub and gitlab, I wish there was more work in making it easy to create pull requests without having to click around on a website. I'll often check

With both GitHub and gitlab, I wish there was more work in making it easy to create pull requests without having to click around on a website. I'll often check out software, notice something small that I can easily fix, and spend 5 minutes fixing and testing it. But then I have to spend another 5 minutes going on GitHub, forking the repository to my profile, going back into my shell, changing the URL for origin, pushing the change, going back to GitHub, creating the pull request on the project, and then going back to my profile and deleting the fork that I have no interest in maintaining. This should be so much easier. That being said, I run Gitlab under a small docker box and I couldn't be happier with it. It's so darn easy to setup. Grats to gitlab team.

DouweM 10y ago
Depending how small the fix is, you can edit a file in any project right from the GitLab interface, and a fork and merge request will be created automatically in the background! The only thing left to do is to remove the fork after the MR has been accepted.
- carussell 10y ago
  This doesn't really help for anything except for content editing (e.g., markdown). Consider the above example: the original poster now has all these files they've changed on disk. The best case scenario now involves opening all those files up one by one and pasting them into the browser's textarea. (Can you change multiple files this way and wrap it up into a single atomic commit? Whatever the case, this actually results in a lot more pointy-clicky, not less.) A patch is a unit of change. Historically, that's the type of unit that the open source world has operated with. The only reason we're having this conversation right now is because GitHub decided to build on top of pull requests instead of patches for lock-in reasons. GitLab has no such motivations, so it's silly to continue following them, especially since Git has had native support for patches from the beginning. Just support patches already.
knownothing 10y ago
You can use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.
- nickysielicki 10y ago
  Right. But what I'm saying is that you have to use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.
  - swsieber 10y ago
    GitLab has an API, and a it's possible to create merge requests through it. I scripted 'turn a commit into merge request' as a Gradle command at the company where I work. So, it's doable. Someone else in this thread also linked to command line tools, I haven't looked at them, but those might promising.
mweilgart 10y ago
You mean something like this? GitLab just added the feature; it looks like what you're asking for. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/#mr-links-when-pushing https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/#mr...
AaronBBrown 10y ago
Have you tried `hub`? https://github.com/github/hub https://github.com/github/hub ~/src/bar (foo =)$ hub pull-request https://github.com/foo/bar/pull/5 There is also `hub fork` and others: These GitHub commands are provided by hub: pull-request Open a pull request on GitHub fork Make a fork of a remote repository on GitHub and add as remote create Create this repository on GitHub and add GitHub as origin browse Open a GitHub page in the default browser compare Open a compare page on GitHub release List or create releases (beta) issue List or create issues (beta) ci-status Show the CI status of a commit

DouweM 10y ago

Depending how small the fix is, you can edit a file in any project right from the GitLab interface, and a fork and merge request will be created automatically in the background! The only thing left to do is to remove the fork after the MR has been accepted.

carussell 10y ago
This doesn't really help for anything except for content editing (e.g., markdown). Consider the above example: the original poster now has all these files they've changed on disk. The best case scenario now involves opening all those files up one by one and pasting them into the browser's textarea. (Can you change multiple files this way and wrap it up into a single atomic commit? Whatever the case, this actually results in a lot more pointy-clicky, not less.) A patch is a unit of change. Historically, that's the type of unit that the open source world has operated with. The only reason we're having this conversation right now is because GitHub decided to build on top of pull requests instead of patches for lock-in reasons. GitLab has no such motivations, so it's silly to continue following them, especially since Git has had native support for patches from the beginning. Just support patches already.

knownothing 10y ago

You can use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.

nickysielicki 10y ago
Right. But what I'm saying is that you have to use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.
- swsieber 10y ago
  GitLab has an API, and a it's possible to create merge requests through it. I scripted 'turn a commit into merge request' as a Gradle command at the company where I work. So, it's doable. Someone else in this thread also linked to command line tools, I haven't looked at them, but those might promising.

mweilgart 10y ago

You mean something like this? GitLab just added the feature; it looks like what you're asking for. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/#mr-links-when-pushing https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/#mr...

AaronBBrown 10y ago

Have you tried `hub`? https://github.com/github/hub https://github.com/github/hub ~/src/bar (foo =)$ hub pull-request https://github.com/foo/bar/pull/5 There is also `hub fork` and others: These GitHub commands are provided by hub: pull-request Open a pull request on GitHub fork Make a fork of a remote repository on GitHub and add as remote create Create this repository on GitHub and add GitHub as origin browse Open a GitHub page in the default browser compare Open a compare page on GitHub release List or create releases (beta) issue List or create issues (beta) ci-status Show the CI status of a commit