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This is a (the?) killer feature.


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:33 AM, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We recently introduced a new URL-based syntax for Depends-On: footers
> in commit messages:
>
>   Depends-On: https://review.openstack.org/535851
>
> The old syntax will continue to work for a while, but please begin using
> the new syntax on new changes.
>
> Why are we changing this?  Zuul has grown the ability to interact with
> multiple backend systems (Gerrit, GitHub, and plain Git so far), and we
> have extended the cross-repo-dependency feature to support multiple
> systems.  But Gerrit is the only one that uses the change-id syntax.
> URLs, on the other hand, are universal.
>
> That means you can write, as in https://review.openstack.org/535541, a
> commit message such as:
>
>   Depends-On: https://github.com/ikalnytskyi/sphinxcontrib-openapi/pull/17
>
> Or in a Github pull request like
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/20974, you can write:
>
>   Depends-On: https://review.openstack.org/536159
>
> But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here -- we're just getting
> started with Gerrit <-> GitHub dependencies and we haven't worked
> everything out yet.  While you can Depends-On any GitHub URL, you can't
> add any project to required-projects yet, and we need to establish a
> process to actually report on GitHub projects.  But cool things are
> coming.
>
> We will continue to support the Gerrit-specific syntax for a while,
> probably for several months at least, so you don't need to update the
> commit messages of changes that have accumulated precious +2s.  But do
> please start using the new syntax now, so that we can age the old syntax
> out.
>
> There are a few differences in using the new syntax:
>
> * Rather than copying the change-id from a commit message, you'll need
>   to get the URL from Gerrit.  That means the dependent change already
>   needs to be uploaded.  In some complex situations, this may mean that
>   you need to amend an existing commit message to add in the URL later.
>
>   If you're uploading both changes, Gerrit will output the URL when you
>   run git-review, and you can copy it from there.  If you are looking at
>   an existing change in Gerrit, you can copy the URL from the permalink
>   at the top left of the page.  Where it says "Change 535855 - Needs
>   ..." the change number itself is the permalink of the change.
>


Is the permalink the only valid format here for gerrit? Or does the fully
expanded link also work. E.g.,

   Depends-On: https://review.openstack.org/536540

versus

   Depends-On: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/536540/

[snip]


-Dave
-- 
David Shrewsbury (Shrews)
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