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Re: [egit-dev] Cherry-pick & Gerrit Change-ID


On 12/21/2011 09:46 AM, Matthias Sohn wrote:
> 2011/12/21 Markus Duft <markus.duft@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:markus.duft@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
>     Hey!
> 
>     How should the gerrit change-id generation in egit behave when cherry-picking a commit to another branch? I observed:
> 
>      * when there is no conflict, the same id is used
>      * when there is a conflict and i have to use the commit dialog, a new id is generated
> 
>     is this intention? or should i report a bug?
> 
> 
> this looks inconsistent and is probably caused by the fact that
> change-id generation is a feature of the commit dialog which isn't
> used when cherry-pick succeeds without conflicts.

mhm, i thought so ...

> 
> Though I am not sure what's the correct behavior as AFAIK Gerrit behavior
> changed from 2.1.x to 2.2. I think Gerrit 2.1.x rejects pushing changes with
> the same change-id to multiple branches whereas Gerrit 2.2 now
> can handle that. 

the problem also arises when the gerrit target branch stays all the same, but the change is cherry picked locally onto a different feature branch (for example to break the dependency on another commit, that i don't want to have in my branch)

regards, markus

> 
> @Sasa: am I right here ? Any hints ?
> 
> -- 
> Matthias


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