> Tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket choose the name pull request since the first manual action would be to pull the feature branch. Tools such as GitLab and Gitorious choose the name merge request since that is the final action that is requested of the assignee
I think GitLab are right to choose 'merge request', it has an immediately obvious meaning compared to 'pull request'
> Tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket choose the name pull request since the first manual action would be to pull the feature branch. Tools such as GitLab and Gitorious choose the name merge request since that is the final action that is requested of the assignee
I think GitLab are right to choose 'merge request', it has an immediately obvious meaning compared to 'pull request'
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2014/09/29/gitlab-flow/