Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:45:26AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 11:33 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > Most developers are more familiar with the GitHub workflow, I think
> > it's
> > an easier workflow than attaching a patch to a bugtracker ticket.
> > Once
> > the contributor has pushed a branch on the fork repo, all the rest
> > can
> > be done from the web interface by clicking on some buttons.
>
> I absolutely hate this workflow, fwiw. I prefer being able to run "git-
> bz" to both create and apply patches, rather than keeping a clone with
> a bunch of patches in my own org, or remembering the commands to push a
> repo to my own repo from the upstream clone.
>
> I hope there will be a git-bz equivalent available.

By attaching a patch to a bugtracker ticket, we loose the information of
the parent commit: where the commit has been initially created in the
git history.

I've already had the problem that git-bz apply fails (there was a
conflict), while git was able to resolve automatically the conflict when
rebasing the branch.

--
Sébastien