[Insight-developers] how to merge commits to release branch?

[Brad King]

On 4/4/2012 11:06 AM, Xiaoxiao Liu wrote:
> I tried gerrit-push first actually, but gerrit tends to recognize the branch
> as "master" (appear on the gerrit item page)
> even you start from release. See http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/4872/.

It doesn't matter what Gerrit thinks.  Gerrit does not compute the
merge into release.  In our setup it's only interested in master.
The release branch is always contained inside master so when Matt
merges something to release he must also merge release into master
and push them both.  At that point Gerrit will see that the commit
is reachable from master and mark it as merged.

If you know what you're doing then you're welcome to manually
push to refs/for/release but I don't want to make that part of
the instructions.  It is not necessary and is more complicated.

-Brad