Hello again. I asked the gurus, and they say we probably want to set
content merging to true. Any objections? I'd like to flip that switch
before I go on my trip, so by the end of the week.

Gabe

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:09 PM Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks. It's historically been an issue with gerrit as we have it set up
> for use in gem5 that it seems to be pretty picky about when a change can be
> submitted, and I've had to fairly often (but not always) perform a trivial
> rebase through the gerrit UI so that it's happy and will let me submit a
> CL. In the past this has been annoying, but not a big deal since it just
> takes a few clicks to placate gerrit.
>
> Now that we have kokoro running and verifying CLs (which is a very good
> thing), rebases have the unfortunate side effect of clearing the verified
> bit which necessitates running the CI again on essentially the same CL,
> including a several hour wait. So far this has been a bigger annoyance than
> before with the added latency getting a CL submitted, but since there
> haven't (yet) been any series with a lot of those delays stack on top of
> each other it hasn't been a huge problem.
>
> What I'd like to know is what people think about making gerrit less picky
> (not sure how that translates to settings TBH) so that these trivial
> rebases aren't as necessary. Looking at the settings, I see that the
> "Submit type" is "Rebase Always" and the "Allow content merges" setting is
> false. There are other settings, but these seem like the most relevant ones.
>
> This page takes a bit about the philosophy behind the submit type setting:
>
>
> https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-project-owner.html
>
> With a more complete description of all the submit types over here:
>
>
> https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-project-config.html#submit-type
>
> If people agree that this is something we should try to change, we can
> probably ask the gerrit gurus here at Google what settings we can adjust to
> get the desired effect.
>
> Gabe
>
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