[Development] Neat feature in gerrit: drafts

[Sergio Ahumada]

On 10.11.2016 17:20, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
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> 10.11.2016, 19:18, "Edward Welbourne" <edward.welbourne at qt.io>:
>> A review puzzled several of us today by (apparently) starting at patch
>> set 6. Jesus had discovered a gerrit feature we hadn't heard of:
>> drafts.
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> FYI, it was around for ages, since 2.3 release

git-gpush has it since 2014

https://codereview.qt-project.org/88136

>> If you push to refs/drafts/blah instead of refs/for/blah, you
>> get a review on gerrit with much of the effect we normally achieve using
>> WIP but without the sanity-bot's complaint about WIP and without the
>> buttons that would allow staging. Folk can comment on it, they just
>> can't actually accept it yet. Later you can push to refs/for/blah as
>> usual and the review turns into a real review. Further pushes to
>> refs/drafts/blah will be added as later patch sets without spamming
>> those watching the review, while being visible to anyone actually
>> looking at it; and you can delete drafts from the history once all they
>> are is clutter. There's probably more fun I've yet to learn.
>>
>> This seemed worth publicizing; so now you all know :-)
>>
>>         Eddy.


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