cli gitlab — gitlab cli

Vishwanath Arondekar

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Feb 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Do you use gitlab? Do you create lot of merge requests for code review? You also like working on the command line. Wouldn’t it be great to have your merge requests created from the command line itself.

Earlier working with github I had great success using hub from command line. I started looking for similar tool for gitlab.

Unfortunately I didn’t find any tool which could create merge request for me painlessly like I could do with hub, so I decided to create one myself.

Outcome was gitlab-cli

gitlab cli

Gitlab-cli tries to re-create some of the useful functionalities present in hub. It is built in nodejs. You can find the install instructions at gitlab-cli

As of now it can do following for you

create-merge-request
browse
compare
open-merge-requests

create-merge-request

Using create-merge-request you can create merge request painlessly. All the information needed for options can be obtained automatically on basis of repository, current branch and remote gitlab URL set.

Surely, you can override these options to create merge request between the branches or forks you need.

A simple usage of the gitlab-cli to create merge request looks like following

gitlab-cli create-merge-request

You can check all the available options at gitlab-cli#options-for-create-merge-request

Other commands

It has support for some other commands as well, which you might be interested in.

1. browse — Open the browse page of the branch on gitlab
2. compare — Open the compare page between two branches.
3. open-merge-requests — Open the merge requests page of the repo in gitlab for looking at all the merge requests raised.

Conclusion

I hope you will find using gitlab-cli helpful for you. If you have any suggestions or feedback about gitlab-cli, you can create the issues on the github project.

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