And... as S reminded me -- this is now documented at our handy little debugging guide to gerrit:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Advanced_usage#.22.5Bremote_rejected.5D_HEAD_-.3E_refs.2Fpublish.2Fmaster.2F.3F.3F.3F_.28Cannot_merge_change_to_another_branch.29 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]>wrote: > Genius! > > I swore I tried git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/??? and it not working -- > but clearly I had done something else boneheaded. > > It was indeed the .gitreview file pointing to the wrong branch that was > the cause of all my troubles. > > Thanks :) > > ~Matt Walker > Wikimedia Foundation > Fundraising Technology Team > > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> (The below is how I understand this. I am no gerrit expert, though, and I >> might be wrong.) >> >> Note this part: >> >> >> ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> refs/publish/master/mwalker_**test (change >>> 59546 >>> closed) >>> >> >> That's gerrit ("remote") telling you that the change is no good >> ("rejected"), because >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/#/c/59546/<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59546/>("change >> 59546") is already merged ("closed"). >> >> This means that instead of submitting the change to whatever branch you >> wanted to, you're actually submitting it to master. >> >> You should either fix the .gitreview file to have something else than >> "defaultbranch=master" in it for your branch, or just use the good old `git >> push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/<branch>` command instead of `git review`. >> >> (Or, if you did mean to submit this to master for some reason, remove the >> Change-Id line and have a new one generated to create a new gerrit >> changeset.) >> >> >> -- >> Matma Rex >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
