Create a merge request in less than 20 seconds

This package is because I love the terminal, spent too much time in it and I wanted to create a merge request after my last commit.

The trigger for this package is because, I wanted to know the time I took to create a merge request from the Gitlab UI ( more than 1 minutes, to find the repo/create the MR).

Before the creation of my script

Seconds	Merges requests	By week	Calcul	Result
60	10	5	60 * 10 * 5	3000 secondes or 50 minutes by month

After the creation of my script

Seconds	Merges requests	By week	Calcul	Result
20	10	5	20 * 10 * 5	1000 secondes or 16min40 by month

DISCLAIMER This script is mainly for my use case, you are free to open a PR or fork the project to adapt the code for you.

Enjoy !

Node version used 20.17.0

Config

Create an .env file at the root of your home directory

cd ~ && mkdir cli-mr-creator && cd cli-mr-creator && touch .env

Env file content

Key	Description	Required	Default value
TOKEN	Gitlab access token	yes	none
DEV_GROUP	Gitlab organisation	yes	none
HOSTNAME	Gitlab host name	yes	gitlab.com
TARGET_BRANCH	name of the target branch	no	master
REMOVE_SOURCE_BRANCH	boolean	no	false
SQUASH	boolean	no	false

Use the script

# Local installation
npm i cli-mr-creator

# Global installation
npm i -g cli-mr-creator

# and you can summon the command in your cli
cli-mr-creator

# Or you can launch it with npx
npx cli-mr-creator

Roadmap

• Open source the code
• Add CI
• Add Typescript
• Add License
• Add the possibility to create a pull request for Github.
• Add ticketing system, ex : Jira pull the correct URL from the name of the branch
• Setup an axios instance
• Add correct type
• Tests
• Refactor call api in order
• Translation : FR / EN