, changing
the base branch to nautilus-saved and then back to nautilus(using the
edit button) fixes things.
Neha
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:31 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:14 PM Sage Weil <sweil(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 4:13 PM Josh Durgin
<jdurgin(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 2/4/20 3:13 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> So we've started doing hotfix releases (v14.2.6 & v14.2.7), yay!
> Unfortunately, this process is involving some kind of rebase which is
> wrecking the release commit history. Exhibit A:
>
>
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/32602
>
> I'm in the process of fixing my backports but for those looking after
> I'm done, my backport PR now has 156 commits including merges where
> only 2 should exist.
>
> This must not continue. Asking backporters to rebase every backport PR
> whenever we do a hotfix is a non-starter, IMHO.
>
> There's been discussions about using some various branching strategies
> to make this work better but that would complicate the existing
> release process and/or muck up upgrade tests. (In particular, it's
> been suggested that the release branch _only_ point to a tagged
> release.)
>
> Without entering into a drawn out discussion on how we could fix the
> release process, I'm going to suggest the following git workflow to
> avoid rebases within the current limitation of the release branch
> always pointing to the cutting edge state:
>
> (1) Hotfix need identified: save current branch state:
>
> git checkout $release
> git branch $release-save
> git push upstream $release-save # push branch save to GitHub for
> disaster recovery
>
> (2) In GitHub, restrict branch push rights on $release.
>
> (3) Hard reset to last tagged release:
>
> git reset --hard vX.Y.Z
> git push --force upstream HEAD:$release
>
> (4) Do hotfix merges.
>
> (5) Tag/test release.
>
> (6) Merge the saved branch onto the release branch:
>
> git merge $release-save
> git push upstream $release # no --force should be necessary!
>
>
> No history is lost. The commit history reflects the reality of what
> happened. No backport rebasing.
This was exactly the procedure we used - if you check via the cli you'll
see all those commits are in fact still in the nautilus branch. There
was no rebasing. For example, git log origin/nautilus..FETCH_HEAD after
fetching that PR shows only 2 commits.
My apologies Josh. You're quite right. Shame on me for not actually
looking at the commit history!
I'm not sure why github did not update the
list of commits in PRs after
the nautilus branch was restored - it seems like a bug. I'm curious if
anyone knows how to make github refresh its view again.
I don't know except to do the rebase :(
I suspect a commit --amend on the top commit would do the trick?
Yes, but I suppose at that point you might as well rebase anyway.
But in any case, I don't think it matters
that much what commits github
shows (except that it is confusing)--the reality in git is the same,
right?
I don't think it matters but it was confusing to some folks reviewing
the backport PRs.
--
Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D.
He / Him / His
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat Sunnyvale, CA
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