On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > This may seem like a kind of strange idea so I thought I'd float it > here first rather than just opening a bug. Maybe some variation on > this is more appropriate. > > I'd like to be able to create a merge proposal object that has no > branch attached. Why would I want such a strange thing? Well, for > instance because sometimes people attach patches to bugs (or eg put > them in a pastebin or mail message) that want to be merged back in. > Obviously I could turn that patch into a proper branch, and will > eventually, but that can take some time, if eg the patch conflicts. > What I really want is to just capture the fact that some work needs to > be done to merge the thing and to kick off the review process. >
We do need a way of bringing patches attached to bug trackers into the wonderful world of DVCS love. You can already send a merge directive to Launchpad and have it create the source branch and merge proposal for you. > I guess in practice this would be hard or infeasible because MPs are > named by the source (??) branch, so you can't really have one without > it. > We'd have to create a source branch. This is possible, but as you know it'll never be exact. For what it's worth, the Ubuntu community has already requested this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/345577 and I've filed a nebulous and not particularly useful bug on the overall problem: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/297872. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
