[vtk-developers] How to update someone else's topic (or create a new topic off of theirs)

[Bill Lorensen]

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 03/17/2015 02:16 PM, Ken Martin wrote:
>> So I was doing a review of someone's merge request and I realized it needs
>> some extra changes. Is there a way for me to download their topic (cherry
>> pick?), make some more changes and then resubmit it? I saw lots of options
>> to download a patch or diff for a topic but I do not want to lose their
>> node/hash/whatever it is called. Is there a right way to do this. I did
>> check the wiki but did not see a "revise someone else's topic".
>
> This is an area where GitLab's merge request workflow differs from Gerrit's.
> In GitLab the original submitter of the merge request is responsible for
> pushing all updates to the branch.  There are a few options here:
>
> 1. You could checkout the branch locally, make the changes, and then ask
>    the original submitter to fetch your version of the topic and
>    'git gitlab-push' it again to update the MR.
>
> 2. You could do the same but instead open your own MR and close the
>    original.
>
> 3. You could work with the submitter directly in their repository.  They
>    can use the Setting tab in their GitLab fork to make you a developer
>    that can push directly to their repository.  In that case though
>    the 'git gitlab-push' alias won't help you because it won't be
>    configured to push to the right place.  You'd have to push by hand.
>
> -Brad
>
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