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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 18 August 2014 15:23:25 Marc Mutz wrote:
> 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?

The tool I wrote could do that:

git rev-list @{u}.. | xargs -n1 git gp

I think Ossi was modifying git gpush to do the same. I don't know what the 
current state is. Ossi?
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