Re: pull requests

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:03:36 +0300
> 
> On 30.03.2020 08:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > IME, that URL is both for the Web interface and for accessing the 
> > repository.  If you point a browser there, you get the Web interface; if 
> > you clone from that URL, you get the code.
> 
> Is that right?
> 
> I wasn't able to 'git clone'
> 
>    https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/-/merge_requests/1
> 
> or
> 
>    https://gitlab.com/eufs/eufs_sim/-/merge_requests/38

Try the repo URL, not the merge-request URL.  People point to the repo
very frequently, you can find such references even in this list.

> The only possibility of a mistake I was discussing was somebody linking 
> for the branch directly (which is not something people do often), or 
> basically intentional abuse of our code hosting platform.

That is what happens, yes.