[Insight-developers] Large number of SimpleITK Gerrit topics

[Dan Mueller]

Hi all,

Sorry for the mess. I was not aware I could not push gerrit reviews
from the SimpleITK next branch. I am cleaning it up now.

Regards, Dan Mueller

On 31 July 2011 15:03, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/2011 7:46 AM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> There are a large number of SimpleITK gerrit topics. Did you mean to
>> push this many topics to Gerrit? If so, perhaps we should find a better
>> way, tother than gerrit, to accommodate this number of topics.
>
> The problem is that SimpleITK is using a workflow with a 'next'
> branch.  Gerrit does not work well with multiple integration
> branches so the repository it has for SimpleITK does not know
> about the 'next' branch, only about 'master'.  Someone based
> a topic on 'next' and then pushed it for review.  This brought
> along all the merges ever made into 'next' each as its own commit
> for review.
>
> The main repository would reject an attempt to push this topic
> because it is based on 'next'.  The Gerrit-held repository does
> not have any such hooks.  I don't remember off the top of my head
> if Gerrit supports the hooks necessary to do a push-time rejection
> in this case.
>
> To clean this up someone will have to go through and abandon all
> the reviews whose summary ends in "into 'next'".  Then rebase
> the topic on 'master' and push for review again.
>
> -Brad
>