[Development] Looking for a way to batch-upload independent changes to Gerrit

[Marc Mutz]

Hi all,

I have several times come across the problem that I hack away and end up with 
a chain of 20 or so commits, most of which are completely independent of each 
other. If I push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/X, I can upload all of them in one go, 
but they will be shown in the Gerrit UI as depending on each other.

If I had the right to upload merges, even for just deleting them afterwards, I 
would take all of these changes, rebase them onto gerrit/X, and do one octopus 
merge over the lot of them, then push gerrit that_merge:refs/for/X and abandon 
the change that corresponds to that_merge as an artifact.

Other than writing a script to iterate over the parents of that_merge and push 
gerrit parent:refs/for/X each one separately, which takes a long time because 
of the SSH key negotiation, is there a way to do this in one git push command?

Thanks,
Marc 

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