[Buildbot-devel] Conceptual Questions: Change-based BuildStep

[Kenny Ho]

Hi Tom,

Would you elaborate more on what you mean?  When you say branches, did you mean topic branches on gerrit or the pre-merged references created on gerrit?  I know that gerrit keep some kind of dependencies between patch-sets which requires patches to be merge in some kind of order but I am not familiar with gerrit internal (does it use branch to keep those dependency information?  is that what you were referring to?)

Regards,
Kenny
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From: Tom Prince [tom.prince at ualberta.net]
Sent: July 3, 2013 5:11 PM
To: Kenny Ho; Dustin J. Mitchell
Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Conceptual Questions: Change-based BuildStep

Kenny Ho <kenny.ho at jamdeo.com> writes:
>>I don't see why you'd need to cherry-pick there.  Couldn't you update
>>the relevant repos?
> I can't update the repos because these changes are actually not merged
> yet ("patchset-created" in gerrit terms) and can be rejected pending
> on the result of code review.

One way of handling this is to have branches for this. Both gerrit and
github do this.

  Tom