[dev] Upcoming git-review changes

Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 17:09:06 UTC 2019


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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephen
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openstack-infra/git-review/commit/03768832c4
> 
> 




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