Re: github mirror of lilypond?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

You can think of Gerrit as Rietveld v2

This somewhat off-topic, but the main reason people dislike Gerrit is
that it requires contributors to put a Change-Id line in the bottom of
the commit message, see eg.

  https://review.gerrithub.io/c/lilypond/lilypond/+/482034

As one reworks the series of commits, the ChangeId is kept in place.
This has the advantage that you can track how a proposed change
evolves across the review process, and that you can easily submit
multi-part changes for review. In the above, I sent a stack of 7
commits for review at once.

Working with a single commit requires using commit --amend and with
multiple commits requires using rebase -i, both of which Git newbies
seems a little scared of.

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 4:34 AM Karlin High <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 1/18/2020 4:59 AM, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond
> development wrote:
> > I strongly dislike Gerrit, it's really hard to learn and even after
> > some time I still can't figure out how to use it correctly.
>
> This topic is outside my expertise. But I understood that Gerrit and
> Rietveld are both descendants of Google's proprietary internal-use
> Mondrian code review tool.
>
> <https://www.gerritcodereview.com/about.html>
>
> I see quite a few patches lately that show Jonas Hahnfeld as the author...
>
> <https://codereview.appspot.com/user/hahnjo>
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/log/?qt=author&q=Jonas+Hahnfeld>
>
> ...so I'm wondering if Rietveld has you suffering in silence ;) or if
> the fork and rewrite mentioned on that Gerrit "about" page has greatly
> diverged the user experiences of these respective products?
> --
> Karlin High
> Missouri, USA



-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen