Hello! On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 03:59:10PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: > Gitlab supposedly has a magic button for it just after a commit has landed > in master. > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/cherry_pick_changes.html > > Though I don't know how to trigger that in our UI.
You have this button from commit page, not merge request page. https://i.imgur.com/9kgdpVy.png > cherry-pick backwards. > In principle I completely agree. > > I have a few fears, which I hope are all addressable. > > - we need some reference to the real commit. > > Qt adds > " (cherry picked from commit 6de0287d7c3aa4251fe6eb4f970d73ce11cf07fc)" > to the commit message automagically somehow in their workflow. If you use git cherry-pick with -x option, git automatically adds this message in commit. > - without making people commit locally into stable, could it encourage > people to not test as much? I did not actually suggest using Web UI but using the git operation locally. And in fairness either way we do end up with one bit where thing is untested, Currently, - Start with change in master -> should it go into stable? -> change branch -> accepted This workflow does not gurantee that developer tested it before changing target branch anyway. > > > For now I am proposing this change only for Plasma repositories if we > > like it, we can propose this workflow for rest of KDE repositories, but > > that needs discussions in kde-devel/kde-core-devel separately. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > I like consistency across KDE, otherwise it's very difficult for people who > contribute in N places. > We should at least email before we change, though we can still discuss > things here first. What I meant was, test-drive this for small amount of one or two plasma repositories and if that works better, we can then ask people for adapting changes across KDE giving example. > > David -- Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode GPG key fingerprint : 0AAC 775B B643 7A8D 9AF7 A3AC FE07 8411 7FBC E11D
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