Hi, Internally, in the case of an unpushed branch, Review Board does store a "parent diff" between the parent revision and the posted diff. However, this is not exposed to the user. Typically what will happen in this case is that the parent changes will have their own review requests, in which case they can be applied in order (the "Depends On" field is useful to indicate to others the relationship). Sometimes I'll ask someone to update the review request with a change that applies cleanly to a specific branch.
We're working on dramatically improving our DVCS capabilities, specifically with regards to posting entire branches at once. This will make it so every commit on the branch will be included, and `rbt patch` will be able to apply the entire branch at once, reproducing the commits exactly. -David On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:09 PM <jameslam91...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Review Board users / developers, > > What is the recommended approach for reconstructing a work copy of the > changes in a review request? > > I am most specifically interested in Git where branching may occur. > > It seems that an approach would be to > > 1. Checkout the repo with the base revision which I can get from the > Review Board API. > 2. rbt patch to apply the changes > > However, it seems that I can't always just checkout from the base revision > as that revision may be in a unpushed branch. > > How can I reconstruct the repo up to the point where the base revision is > if I can't directly check out the changes. Does Review Board store all the > diffs leading up to the uploaded diff for branches? Is this information > exposed to the user? > > Thanks! > > -- > Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: > https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ > Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: > https://rbcommons.com/ > Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "reviewboard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
