Re: [agl-dev-community] Using gerrit in a proper way? forks? #help

["Stephane Desneux" <stephane.desneux@xxxxxxx>]

No, branch names don't have to be the same everywhere, but it clearly helps to
avoid confusion :)

For example, if I try to fix SPEC-1234, I name my sandboxes
'sandbox/sdesneux/SPEC-1234' everywhere.

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Stephane Desneux - CTO - IoT.bzh
stephane.desneux@xxxxxxx - www.iot.bzh

On 29/06/2020 09:16, walzert wrote:
> Hello Stephane,
> 
> thank you very much. Your answer was really helpful, I have just one question
> remaining.
> 
> If I have one thing that I want to change over multiple repos e.g. to change a
> service (permissions in the can_service) in an image that I will build, do I
> have to use the same sandbox-name e.g. "sandbox/walzert/can_changes" ?
> 
> And then use
> 
> |repo init -b ||sandbox/walzert/can_changes -u
> https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/AGL/AGL-repo|
> 
> 
> and if there is no "sandbox/walzert/can_changes" branch for other repos (there
> are no changes necessary) is that ok?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
> 
> On 29.06.20 01:18, Stephane Desneux wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> If you have a registered account on AGL gerrit, you can push changes to your own
>> personal branch. This is a mechanism we (IoT.bzh) proposed very early in the
>> project but I don't remember if this is documented somewhere (anyone to post a
>> link to documentation on that topic?).
>>
>> Basically, if you have a $login on gerrit, then you're in a position to push
>> anything to a "sandbox branch" directly, without review.
>>
>> The branch name must be: sandbox/$login/$yourtopic
>>
>> So you can have multiple branches (1 per topic) on the same repo.
>>
>> For example, you can clone AGL/meta-agl, change a recipe, do your own commit
>> then push to your sandbox (assuming your login is 'twalzer'):
>>
>> # git push origin HEAD:sandbox/twalzer/mytopic
>>
>> You can also rewrite your own branch and "push force":
>>
>> # git push origin +HEAD:sandbox/twalzer/mytopic
>>
>> or simply drop your sandbox when it becomes useless:
>>
>> # git push origin :sandbox/twalzer/mytopic
>>
>> There are more advanced usages of sandboxes like merging the content of a
>> sandbox in a master branch and doing a review with it but I'd prefer to have
>> Gerrit admins to write such instructions officially. (I'm NOT the sysadmin :))
>>
>> Best,
>> ---
>> Stephane Desneux - CTO - IoT.bzh
>> stephane.desneux@xxxxxxx - www.iot.bzh
>>
>> On 28/06/2020 23:25, walzert wrote:
> 

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