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From YouTube: Reviewing merge requests in GitPod and local GDK as a designer

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Alexis from the Design team gives a very high-level overview of reviewing MRs in GitPod vs local GDK.

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Hey there alexis here designer at get lab, so I'm going to quickly show y'all how I, as a designer review, merge requests both in get pod and in my local gdk.

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So what I have here is a merge request that I want to look at and I want to review this see how the design is looking and interacts. um I go down here and I click checkout branch, so you want to copy all of this. You could do that manually or you could just click on this copy button and then you move over here. You want to make sure gdk is running within the gitlab folder, so I would type in gdk start I've already done that, so I don't need to now.

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I just need to paste in everything I just copied and what what that's doing is just moving us over to this branch, so I can look at it.

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So now you can see, we've switched this, mr, is actually behind a feature flag. So if I don't enable this feature flag, I won't see the changes which of course, is important. So um what you need to do is say feature enable.

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Whatever the flag is titled, um this is the entire thing has been pasted here for us, which is awesome, so we just need to copy that and then we need to open up rails console. I do that by just typing in real c and it'll. Take a second um so we'll just wait for that to load up and I'll be right back.

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Okay, so you now see rails console here. So again, I'm just gonna paste in or type in this feature flag and I'm saying feature enable if you wanted to disable it. You could type feature disable, but I want to enable so I'm going to go ahead and run that, and you can see that it's now been enabled from this information here.

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I'm gonna go ahead and exit out of rails console, otherwise you can kind of get trapped in here, so just be a little careful.

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So now everything should be up to date, and I should be able to review this. So I'm going over to my local hosts football host 3000, I'm going to refresh just to make sure everything is updated and I should be able to see the changes, and I know that this pertains to comments and issues. So I'm going to go ahead and find an issue in here and then see what it looks like so go to issue.

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List go to an issue.

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All right, so we want to look at issue comments, and I do see this now so in the screenshot, provided we see this new make this comment confidential option, and I could see that within here as well. So now I would do my review I'd see how this interacts see. If I could break it, basically um is the design what I intended it to be and then any changes you want to make.

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You would then document within the merge requests and um mention anyone working on it that you'd, like these changes to be made and work with them pair up with them. So that is reviewing in a nutshell: there's a lot more to it, but um that's in a high level overview to do this in get pod, which some have said is a little easier.

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You would then go to get pod and the way you do that is by going to a project- and you see this get pod button here and there's also the get pod option within the drop down. So I'd go ahead and click on that and that would open up get pod and get powder. I mean it looks fairly similar to what we just did in that's by design. So this is basically this, and this is that preview window we were looking at. You can even pop this window out into another tab.

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If you want to and here's everything we need so now we want to review the mr again, so we still need to figure out what it's called. But really you just need to know the first couple couple characters or numbers in here and switching to this branch is fairly easy. You just go ahead and click master or main down here, and you can start typing in the reference to that. Mr and you see it in this list here, I'm just gonna click on it, and that is actually switching to the branch for me.

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So I don't have to type in that entire um that entire thing here. So instead of copying this I'm just switching through this option down here. So that's switching right now it looks like it's already done it. You can see that here we're no longer on master now we're on this, allow to set confidential notes, branch um and it might be reflected here but remember we need to set that feature flag. We need to enable the feature flag.

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So that's a little more complicated um depending on how you look at it in gitpod, but really just kind of remember that this workspace, gitlab tab is, is kind of like this, so it's kind of like the terminal, so how I would enable this feature flag is then typing rails c here within workspace, get gitlab press enter and it should spin up the rails console.

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So it's pretty familiar just kind of in a different place, and then again I would see what the future flag is that I want to enable or disable copy it go over to gift pod and just paste it in like we did before again you can exit just so you don't get trapped in the rails console and then you should be able to see the changes within the preview here. Just like we did before it's very similar, just get pod kind of.

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Does some of the steps for you so like I said this is pretty similar to what we just did or maybe exactly the same as what we just did. This is that preview, and now we can just do the same thing. We go to an issue because we know this is pertaining to issue comments, so we would just have to navigate to an issue like I said you could pop this out into a new tab.

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You can resize it whatever you want to do and let's click on an issue and like I, you can still see this make this issue confidential within this comment now so similar to what we just did and now you can review it. You can make any design suggestions or changes that you needed to, but this is your gift pod, so some people find this a little bit easier to use it's up to you. Whatever helps you get this job done, um but hopefully this was helpful and we'll help you review, mrs as well.

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Thanks all for listening see you later.