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From YouTube: Learning how to make small merge requests
Description
A product designer's attempt at making a small change
A
Hey
I'm
austin,
I'm
a
product
designer
at
gitlab.
Today
I
wanted
to
talk
through
how
you
get
started
with
like
a
merge
request.
If
you
wanted
to
change
something
about
the
gitlab
interface,
I
realized
that
this
can
be
somewhat
of
a
challenge
if
you've
never
been
in
the
development
space
like.
I
would
not
call
myself
a
software
engineer
in
any
regard.
A
I
think
at
best
I
can
hack
away
some
css
and
that's
about
as
far
as
you
might
get
with
me,
so
as
I've
kind
of
learned
some
tips
and
tricks,
I
want
to
share
about
how
I
go
about
submitting
small
changes
in
gitlab.
Maybe
that'll
be
helpful
for
somebody
else
or
please.
If
you
could
help
me
be
better
at
this
process.
Let
me
know
so:
let's
talk
about
like
an
example
where,
let's
say
currently,
our
validation
field
uses
a
14,
pixel
font,
and
I
think
this
should
be
12
pixels.
A
How
would
I
go
about
figuring
out
how
to
submit
a
merge
request
for
that
because,
in
theory,
like
oh,
pretty,
small
change
font
to
this
size?
Well,
the
first
thing
I
usually
do
is
check
our
design
system.
So
I
look
into
pajamas
kind
of
inspect
the
element
figure
out.
What's
going
on
there
look
through
some
of
the
classes.
A
A
That
shows
it
actually,
I'm
gonna
refresh
the
page
because
it's
cash
from
before
so
open
that
up
again,
it's
all
right.
If
I
do
this,
it
fails,
and
currently
this
is
using
rem,
which
makes
it
a
little
bit
more
dynamic
in
terms
of
font
sizing,
keeping
track
of
that,
but
it
comes
out
to
14
pixels.
So,
let's
just
say
like
oh,
you
know,
I
want
to
try
and
see
what
it
looks
like
if
it
were
smaller.
A
You
know,
I'd
come
in
here
mess
around
dropped
to
0.75,
so
it
would
go
down
to
12.
all
right.
So
maybe
I
think
this
is
the
right
move.
I
think
this
is
a
reasonable
small
change
to
propose.
How
do
I
go
about
doing
that?
Now
that
I've
checked
this
out,
one
thing
I
would
do
is
then
try
and
find
it
in
our
code
base.
A
So
I'm
looking
for
like
the
class
that
it's
using,
where
is
it?
What's
it
inheriting?
I
can
see
it's
using
this
invalid
feedback
and
accommodation,
this
gitlab
field
error
so
locally.
I
have
the
gitlab
project
or
the
gitlab
app
that
I
can
build.
I
could
technically
go
find
this
in
the
ide,
but
the
problem
is,
I
don't
know
where
this
file
lives,
so
I
tend
to
just
open
my
visual
studio,
editor
and
I'll
search
for
this
class,
which
pulls
back
nothing.
So
let's
try
and
find
it
a
little
bit
more.
A
A
That
red
color
and
it's
in
0.75,
and
so
I'm
realizing
that
the
font
sizing
is
actually
established
by
this
class.
So
realistically
I
can't
use
this
class.
I
can
just
say
like
delete
this
and
put
0.85.
I
probably
got
to
use
something
else,
so
I'm
going
to
try
and
see
if
I
can
find
like
another
file,
that's
using
this
okay.
Okay,
so
I
see
here
that
there's
a
variation
to
use
small
and
I'm
willing
to
bet
that
means
that
it's
the
12.
A
pixel
size.
I
bet
it
goes
just
one
tier
down,
so
I
think
what
I
would
do
in
this
case
is
in
this
form.
I
would
change
this
to
small
and
I
I
could
make
a
change
here
and
create
a
branch
and
push
that
up,
but
I'm
honestly
not
good
at
that.
So
what
I
would
then
end
up
doing
is
checking
out
where
this
lives
in
the
file
path,
and
then
I
would
cross-reference
that
into
my
ide
and
then
go
try
and
find
that
thing.
So
we
were
looking
at
app.
A
A
Maybe
somebody
else
has
a
similar
situation,
but
I
definitely
needed
to
lean
on
like
a
previous
developer's
work,
to
go,
look
and
find
things
like
where
our
view
components,
because
I
don't
know
where
some
of
these
things
live.
But
looking
through
some
older,
merge
requests,
I
can
see
where
changes
have
been
made
and
that
helps
me
find
things
faster.