From 07b127ce6064e962d7e8d469aa2148dc3504df8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9my=20Coutable?= Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:21:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the fact that merge requests from private forks can be checked out locally --- doc/user/project/merge_requests.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md b/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md index f79535d1542..5af9a5d049c 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md +++ b/doc/user/project/merge_requests.md @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ A merge request contains all the history from a repository, plus the additional commits added to the branch associated with the merge request. Here's a few tricks to checkout a merge request locally. +Please note that you can checkout a merge request locally even if the source +project is a fork (even a private fork) of the target project. + #### Checkout locally by adding a git alias Add the following alias to your `~/.gitconfig`: