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Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2017-09-20 18:35:23 +0000:
> On 2017-09-20 14:24:32 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote:
> [...]
> > it doesn't really solve the problem of having to update the
> > branches every time we open one. Having tox_install.sh figure out
> > the URL from the .gitreview file addresses that, but it may be too
> > magic for some folks. I don't know if we have generally agreed to
> > let anything other than git-review look at that file.
> 
> Further, git-review has grown additional magic to allow it to figure
> out sane values for defaultbranch when omitted from the .gitreview
> file, so having other tools depend on that implementation detail
> could come back to bite us down the road.

It sounds like we want git-review to have a mode that prints the
branch to which the change would be proposed, without actually
proposing anything. Our scripts could then use that.

Doug