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Re: Gerrit and different merge UIs



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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