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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR by happyopossum on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:58PM (#45034231)
> Merge Request (MR): when a programmer submits proposed changes to a project in a structured way. This makes it easy for anyone to see the differences and review the changes. Sometimes called a Pull Request.

Ok, maybe I’m in a bubble, and my job is only coding-adjacent, but I’ve literally never heard a PR called an MR until today. Is this a new thing?

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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR by kop316 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:04PM (#45034264)
Merge Request is what Gitlab calls a Pull Request: https://docs.gitlab.com/development/contributing/first_contr...

I'm more familiar with that term as I use Gitlab more than Github.

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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR by zulban on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:46PM (#45034548)
Indeed. I think I'll add a note that PR is GitHub.

Not only do I use GitLab more often in my org, but I genuinely think the term itself is more precise. I can be a bit of a stickler for vocabulary.

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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR by nkrisc on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:04PM (#45034260)
It’s all I heard in 2011 when I first entered the corporate world.
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Re:Why I'm declining your AI generated MR by ares623 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:05PM (#45034266)
Gitlab calls it merge requests
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