Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gerrit Merge "<gerrit topic>" commits

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/30/14 6:17 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2014-01-30 Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I believe the simpler answer is that the submit type has been set to "Merge If Necessary" which means if changes are not submitted exactly on top of the change they were authored on, Gerrit will produce a merge automatically.
> I suggested using "Cherry Pick" for "Change Submit Action" and I would
> like to bring it up again.
> BTW this is what is documented on our workflow page.
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Workflow :
> "After all the criteria are met any Core Developer can push the
> "Submit Change" button; integration to the target branch does not
> happen automatically.
> 
> Changes are cherry-picked to the target branch by Gerrit to keep the
> history linear. The rationale behind this is that while merging would
> reflect the history more accurately, linear history is easier to
> interpret by humans. Changes with dependencies are cherry-picked after
> all dependencies are cherry-picked, too. When a cherry-pick can't be
> done without conflict, the change needs to be updated in the review. "
> 
> This is how I set up Gerrit at my previous job, too.

I changed the "Change Submit Action" for Wireshark to "Cherry Pick". In
case anyone is interested the official documentation is at

http://test.code.wireshark.org/review/Documentation/project-setup.html#submit_type

and a discussion of the various options on the repo-discuss (Gerrit)
Google group is at

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/GInKJgLUa2w