[Development] Neat feature in gerrit: drafts

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Edward,

Am 10.11.2016 17:18 schrieb "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.  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 :-)

Qt Creator supports drafts, too.

You can also push a draft over an existing patch set in review. That draft
can then be discussed and "published" to become a "real" patch in the patch
set.

Best Regards,
Tobias
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