git-guide/merging.md

# Bringing code back together

## Merge Requests in Gitlab

## Merging via the CLI
Lets take our example of making a branch for **issue 99**, the diagram below shows the current state of the git repository.

```mermaid
gitGraph
    commit
    commit
    branch issue99
    checkout issue99
    commit
    checkout main
    commit
    commit
```

Merging this is pretty simple, you can do it with the following instructions.

```bash
# Switch back to the main branch
git checkout main

# Merge the branches
git merge issue99

# Push the changes to the remote repository
git push
```

The diagram below shows what happened to our repository and how it got merged or flattened back into the **main** branch.

```mermaid
gitGraph
    commit
    commit
    branch issue99
    checkout issue99
    commit
    checkout main
    commit
    commit
	 merge issue99
    commit
```
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