~~Ah this is a good improvement that we should definitely pick up on the short term. I've added it to [0] for now, but I'll look into this more later, I'm sure

~~Ah this is a good improvement that we should definitely pick up on the short term. I've added it to [0] for now, but I'll look into this more later, I'm sure that we've thought / planned about this before.~~ [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19049 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19049 edit 2: You can do as requested actually [1] [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests.html#checkout-merge-requests-locally https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests.html#... In addition, from GitLab 8.12, we even store the refs for each deployment, making it super easy to check out what is live now.