GitLab Contribution Problem

[Hulala (Yang)]

Hello everyone,

I think I’m having trouble trying to contribute to GitLab.

Could someone tell me how should I contribute the code?

• I am a customer of using Github and I think the way is to create a new Issue, then branch it and end with a PR.

When I try to create a new branch, I get the error message: “Failed to create branch ‘xxxxxxxxxxx’: invalid reference name ‘branch/default’”.

The hg between git is a headache.
Do we have any guide available for this?

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

@Hulala

Do we have any guide available for this?

Yes: Tryton - How to Develop

[Hulala (Yang)]

Sure Ced,

But I am not able to create a new Branch to create a new PR to be able to work and contribute.

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

Because the workflow is not based on branches but topics.
See Merge Request Quick Start Guide

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

Indeed we forbid contributors to create branches, only maintainer can do that because in mercurial branches are eternal not like in git. Indeed mercurial topic is a closer concept to git branch than the mercurial branch.

[Hulala (Yang)]

Fine Ced,

I will try it, I think I have not the topic set right at hg.