[TYPO3-core] How to handle dependencies in Gerrit?

[Markus Klein]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> the reason I am writing is the topic 24087. The situation is like this:
> 
> * There is an patch already merged in master, that only solves a part of the issue.
> * Backports of this patch are pending in Gerrit
[1]

> * I pushed a new patch for master, that solves it finally but is based on the first patch.
[2]

> 
> How should that be solved? I see 2 possibilities:
> 
> 1) Amend the backports with the "new" solution, merge the second fix to master and do not backport it.
> 
> 2) Merge the backports of the first fix into branches "as is" and backport the second patch from master to release branches.
> 
> What is the way to go?
I'm for the second choice as it keeps [3] clean.

> 
> Ciao,
> Marcus
> 

[1] https://review.typo3.org/#/q/tr:24087,n,z
[2] https://review.typo3.org/12185/
[3] http://www.typo3-anbieter.de/typo3-merges/