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On 07/05/2018 02:39 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 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.

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