[vtk-developers] Accidental gerrit merge

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 18:18:35 EDT 2012


The rules for a merge sound complicated to me.

But, I will be very careful in the future.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:19:12 -0400, Bill Lorensen said:
> >
> >>I hit the wrong button by accident. I did not give it a +2. I'm pretty
> sure
> >>I gave it (or a change) a -1.
> >
> > IIRC, the topic had several changes, and some of the changes I think
> were given +2.
> >
> > Is it possible that the whole topic can get merged if any one of, but
> not all, of the sub-changes are at +2?
> >
> For Gerrit topic review it does not matter what any of the individual
> changes get as a review. The entire topic must have a Verified +1, and
> a Code Review +2 score in order to be merged. Reviewers can block a
> merge by giving a -2 at the topic level, that topic had a single +2
> given by one user and no other scores.
>
> Any -1 score does not block a commit, any +1 does not enable the
> submit and merge or submit change button. If you review a commit and
> it does not have a +1 Verified and +2 Code Review you will see an
> error page informing you the change needs Verified and Code Review. I
> tested this myself on a change earlier today, it blocks merging until
> both those scores are in.
>
> I can't see any way that an accidental merge can be done in less than
> two steps (+2 Code Review score, and then hitting Publish and Submit).
> It is possible there is a bug, but I was not able to trigger it (and I
> tried a few times).
>
> Marcus
>



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