Open Stack

The CI Team will be merging a long-requested[1]_ feature to Gerrit
on review.openstack.org at 16:00 UTC this coming Monday, 2012-09-10.

Automatic Detection of Trivially-Rebased Commits
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Any committed patchset with no substantive changes (where the git
patch-id[2]_ and commit message remain the same) will have code
review flags automatically[3]_ reapplied from its predecessor
patchset on that Change-Id. Patchsets where the commit message
differs but the patch-id still remains the same will *not* have code
reviews reapplied, but will have a comment automatically added from
the Trivial Rebase user noting that the code itself is unchanged.

It's hoped that these changes will improve workflow for code
reviews, allowing reviewers to avoid re-reading identical patchsets
looking for nonexistent alterations. The script itself is provided
in upstream Gerrit's contrib[4]_ directory and has been put through
its paces with our OpenStack-specific modifications[5]_ on a couple
of non-production Gerrit servers already (including review-dev.o.o
where it is currently installed and active[6]_), so the CI Team
doesn't anticipate any disruption. Follow up to the list with any
questions and I'll be happy to answer!

References...

.. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+bug/881184

.. [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-patch-id.html

.. [3] Automatically but not instantly--there is a delay of a few
   seconds before the review flags reappear in the WebUI.

.. [4] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/master/contrib

.. [5] https://review.openstack.org/12373

.. [6] https://review-dev.openstack.org/488

-- 
Jeremy Stanley on behalf of the OpenStack CI Team