git mr: easily downloading gitlab merge requests

With KDE [slowly] moving to gitlab you may probably find yourselves reviewing more gitlab based patches.

In my opinion the web UI in gitlab is miles better, the fact that it has a "merge this thing" button makes it a game changer.

Now since we are coming from phabricator you have probably used the arc patch DXXX command to download and locally test a patch.

The gitlab web UI has a a link named "You can merge this merge request manually using the command line" that if pressed tells you to


git fetch "git@invent.kde.org:sander/okular.git" "patch-from-kde-bug-415012"
git checkout -b "sander/okular-patch-from-kde-bug-415012" FETCH_HEAD


if you want to locally test https://invent.kde.org/kde/okular/merge_requests/80

That is *horrible*

Enter git mr a very simple script that makes it so that you only have to type


git mr 80




P.S: If you're an archlinux user you can get it from AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-mr

P.P.S: Unfortunately it does not support pushing, so if you want to push to that mr you'll have to do some work.