Step 1. Update the repo and checkout the branch we are going to merge
git fetch origin git checkout -b dev_20211016 origin/dev_20211016
Step 2. Merge the branch and push the changes to GitLab
git checkout dev git merge --no-ff dev_20211016 git push origin dev
mentioned in commit 72043d59ee2fe459c781c6a1d7b07cd9bd888568