Hello, On Sun 17 Aug 2025 at 12:34am +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > ... Github, Gitlab, and the git data model in general don't really have any > concept of what is "a different revision of the same patch" - the only > information they have is an earlier version of the pull/merge request (a base > commit + a patch series), and a later version (base commit + patch series > again). Gerrit can identify that you think a commit is "the same" by it > keeping a previously-used Change-ID, but without enforcing that information > being present, Github and Gitlab can't know that you consider two commits with > very similar commit messages or very similar diffs to be "the same thing". Right. AIUI Git itself is considering adopting Change-IDs of some form, which would open up many possibilities for these existing interfaces. -- Sean Whitton
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