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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:

> When a change is complex good practice is to break the change into a
> series of smaller individual patches that show the individual
> incremental steps needed to get to the final goal. When partitioned into
> small steps each change is easier to review and hopefully illustrates
> the progression.
>
Definitely agree, however I've noticed people aren't necessarily very
*good* about breaking these into logical pieces sometimes.  In other words
it becomes random changes throughout multiple patches; in most cases it
seems to be after-thoughts or just what the submitter managed to work on at
the time.

Personally I'd love to see these be a bit more well thought out and
organized for my own sake as a reviewer.  While we're at it (I realize this
isn't the case you're talking about) I also would REALLY like to not see 5
individual patches all dependent on each other and all just changing one or
two lines (I was seeing this quite a bit this cycle, and the only thing I
can think of is perhaps it's developers getting some sort of points for
number of commits).

>
> In most cases such a series of patches are interdependent and order
> dependent, jenkins cannot run tests on any patch unless the previous
> patch has been applied.
>
> I was under the impression gerrit review supported multiple commits. In
> fact you can submit multiple commits with a single "git review" command.
>
> But from that point forward it appears as if each commit is handled
> independently rather than being an ordered list of commits that are
> grouped together sharing a single review where their relationship is
> explicit. Also the jenkins tests either needs to apply all the commits
> in sequence and run the test or it needs to run the test after applying
> the next commit in the sequence.
>
> Can someone provide some explanation on how to handle this situation?
>


> Or perhaps I'm just not understanding how the tools work when multiple
> commits are submitted.
>
> --
> John
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