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Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-07-05 17:34:59 +0000:
> On 2018-07-05 13:23:57 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote:
> [...]
> > I wonder if it would be useful to move that step of determining the
> > topic out to a hook, so that project-specific logic could be applied
> > as part of submitting a patch?
> 
> In the way of spitballing some alternatives, we could have it refuse
> to update the topic if it sees that the change already has a topic
> set in Gerrit (unless -t is used). That would address most of my
> gripes about the autotopic functionality. I find it especially
> annoying if I've stacked two changes in series for procedural
> reasons but want to maintain separate change topics for them in
> Gerrit.
> 
> We could of course also make it possible to disable topic inference
> with a configuration option.

Both of those ideas seem reasonable.