[Development] [FYI] new git-gpush features, a.k.a. the smart way of pushing to gerrit

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at theqtcompany.com
Fri Oct 24 11:45:21 CEST 2014


On 24-Oct-14 11:37, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

>> What is rationale for the "technical enforcement"?
>>
> years of preaching "don't rebase unnecessarily" and "don't create
> spurious dependencies" being mostly ineffective. "i pushed an update to
> your change, take care not to overwrite it accidentally" being futile on
> a regular basis. people demanding ridiculously short review cycles,
> because waiting for a review "holds them up for 'process' reasons". etc.
> iow, the usual results of inattentivenes, indifference (unless one is
> the reviewer affected by it, of course), impatience, and sheer laziness.
> and sometimes even genuine mistakes.

I for one already did this manually where it made sense.
Some of us don't.

Anyways, you missed the chance to convince people from the awesomeness 
of your script before pissing everybody off with your megalomania.


Joerg



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