[TYPO3-core] "cherry-pick to" feature in Gerrit

[Peter Niederlag]

Hi,

On 13.08.2013 14:37, Markus Klein wrote:
[...]
> In this scenario we have then two issues: 1) The original change-id
> is sometimes removed

probably if gerrit can't find it (looking in a branch, but not in open
reviews)?

> 2) The newly created change-id is of course not part of the commit
> message, but is also not visible somewhere else

It is visible in gerrit gui in the top left. It is not visible from git
changelog or commit message.

[...]
> Shouldn't cherry-picking always work? Independent whether a changeset
> is merged or not? The button is there at least and it is a rather
> simple GIT operation.

yes, you are absolutly right. It's just a guess on trying to nail down
the problem. We have seen it works sometimes and sometimes not. In order
for a proper bugreport we'd have to make it reproducable.

> The reason why I usually backport from branch  to branch is, that a
> change might be easier to apply. A 6.2 patch might apply fine on 6.1,
> but not on 6.0. But the same patch take from 6.1 might also apply on
> 6.0, due to the context of the changes being more similar.

I understand.

[...]

Greets,
Peter