[vtk-developers] What happened to "git gerrit-merge"?

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 15:33:41 EDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:20 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why has this ability been removed from "non-core" developers? Merges
>> used to be automatically rejected if the patch was not already
>> Gerrit-approved by a "core" developer, right? So why require this
>> extra step of having to ask someone else to merge an already-approved
>> patch?
>>
> I am not aware of any changes to our permissions for VTK in Gerrit, as
> far as I remembered this has always been a limitation in the Gerrit
> permissions model. What makes you think we changed something?

I don't remember there ever being a "git gerrit-merge" alias.  I've
always merged via the topic web page.  As far as I understand,
non-core users with approved topics can merge from there, too.

 - David



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