[openstack-dev] [infra][all] New Zuul Depends-On syntax

Mathieu Gagné mgagne at calavera.ca
Thu Jan 25 21:44:35 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm curious what this means as far as best practices for inter-patch
> references.  In the past my understanding was the the change id was
> preferred, both because if gerrit changed its URL format the change id links
> would be updated appropriately, and also because change ids can be looked up
> offline in git commit messages.  Would that still be the case for everything
> except depends-on now?
>

That's my concern too. Also AFAIK, Change-Id is branch agnostic. This
means you can more easily cherry-pick between branches without having
to change the URL to match the new branch for your dependencies.

--
Mathieu



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