[dev] Upcoming git-review changes

Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 18:19:08 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 17:31 +0000, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 17:09 +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 16:55 +0000, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> > > Happy Friday,
> > > 
> > > Just a quick heads up that the upcoming release of git-review, likely
> > > 2.0, removes a feature. Currently, git-review will detect the presence
> > > of "bug", "lp", "blueprint" or "bp" in commit messages and, if found,
> > > set the Gerrit topic for that submitted review to something based on
> > > the blueprint/bug.
> > > 
> > > As noted in the commit that removed this [1], this hadn't been updated
> > > to support StoryBoard and there was no desire to do so given the
> > > OpenStack-specific nature of this feature along with the fact that it
> > > often did the wrong thing.
> > > 
> > > We (being the people who authored and reviewed the patch) think this is
> > > definitely a good thing to do, but if anyone has genuine concerns about
> > > the removal of this functionality, be sure to raise them here or on
> > > #openstack-infra before we push that release out next week.
> > 
> > does it strill automatically set the topic to the current git branch name?
> > i never really use the feature that is being remvoed but i always use the reverse.
> > e.g. create a branch with the correct name and rely on git review setting the gerrit topic to match.
> 
> No, this feature continues to work as is, and as always can be disabled
> with the '-T'/'--no-topic' flags.
cool +1
i have been bitten more by the feature your removing then it has helped me in the
past so no concern from me :)
> 
> Stephen
> 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Stephen
> > > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/openstack-infra/git-review/commit/03768832c4
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 




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