query about gerrit cherrypick ( and some annoying behaviour ) etc

Hi,
I found some unreviewed patches of mine and also a patch ( some commits 
in the past ) in master that I just wanted to promote for review in 3.6, 
it seems that easiest way was to use the mail interface to ask for a 
cherry-pick ( or at least I didn't see anything else appropriate on the 
wiki ) Is that right, is there no command line interface to do similar? 
is there a better way to do that?

After I did that I noticed I was getting spammed by gerrit with 
"[CHANGEUPLOAD FAILED] [CHERRYPICK] commit blah blah blah for branch 
libreoffice-3-6" type messages indicating there was some problem ( but I 
couldn't figure out what the problem was, some example attached, there 
were some warnings various things and one error with little/no info )
Strangely I did get some "Change in core[libreoffice-3-6]: blah blah 
blah" messages which I presume meant things worked sometimes even before 
the corresponding "[CHANGEUPLOAD FAILED] [CHERRYPICK] commit ...." message.
Also strange ( to me ) that I don't see any "[PATCH] " messages send to 
the dev list and I assume the patch *is* actually uploaded as it appears 
in gerrit.
Another annoyance is that the owner of the bug in gerrit  ( e.g see 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/958/ ) is marked as "LibreOffice 
gerrit bot" instead of the author of the patch.

Is this the expected way that things work? or did I just make a mess of 
things ( if so would be grateful to know what I should have done for 
future reference )

Noel

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• gerrit -AT- libreoffice.org
• Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:18:40 +0000 (UTC)

2012-11-01 16:09:35,192 INFO     Handling incoming mail from Noel Power <nopower@suse.com>
2012-11-01 16:09:35,192 INFO     subject: '[CHERRYPICK] commit 
a705c6cac4182d62c3495be7367d4ae34fd47fac  for
 branch libreoffice-3-6'
2012-11-01 16:09:35,192 INFO     executing command: cherrypick, branch: libreoffice-3-6, commit: 
a705c6cac4182d62c3495be7367d4ae34fd47fac
2012-11-01 16:09:35,245 INFO     Cloning into /tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo...
2012-11-01 16:18:35,263 INFO     call to "git clone --branch libreoffice-3-6 ssh://logerrit/core 
/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo" succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:35,290 INFO     call to "git config gc.auto 0" succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:35,292 INFO     Fetching origin
2012-11-01 16:18:35,535 INFO     call to "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo fetch --all" 
succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:36,019 WARNING  Already on 'libreoffice-3-6'
2012-11-01 16:18:36,025 INFO     call to "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo checkout 
libreoffice-3-6" succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:37,401 INFO     [libreoffice-3-6 fbd1e10] halt corrupted styles with multi-saved 
xlsx document fdo#55418
2012-11-01 16:18:37,402 INFO      Author: Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
2012-11-01 16:18:37,402 INFO      Committer: gerritbot <gerritbot@vm2.documentfoundation.org>
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2012-11-01 16:18:37,403 INFO     
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2012-11-01 16:18:37,404 INFO     
2012-11-01 16:18:37,404 INFO         git commit --amend --reset-author
2012-11-01 16:18:37,404 INFO     
2012-11-01 16:18:37,405 INFO      1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
2012-11-01 16:18:37,417 INFO     call to "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo cherry-pick 
a705c6cac4182d62c3495be7367d4ae34fd47fac" succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:37,658 WARNING  remote: Resolving deltas:  20% (1/5)           
remote: Resolving deltas:  40% (2/5)           
remote: Resolving deltas:  60% (3/5)           
remote: Resolving deltas:  80% (4/5)           
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5)           
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5)        
2012-11-01 16:18:38,403 WARNING  remote: 
remote: Processing changes: updated: 1, refs: 1        
remote: Processing changes: updated: 1, refs: 1, done            
2012-11-01 16:18:38,404 WARNING  To ssh://logerrit/core
2012-11-01 16:18:38,404 WARNING   ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> refs/for/libreoffice-3-6 (no changes 
made)
2012-11-01 16:18:38,404 WARNING  error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://logerrit/core'
2012-11-01 16:18:38,405 ERROR    call to "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo push 
ssh://logerrit/core HEAD:refs/for/libreoffice-3-6" returned: 1
2012-11-01 16:18:38,780 INFO     # On branch libreoffice-3-6
2012-11-01 16:18:38,780 INFO     # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/libreoffice-3-6' by 1 commit.
2012-11-01 16:18:38,780 INFO     #
2012-11-01 16:18:38,780 INFO     nothing to commit (working directory clean)
2012-11-01 16:18:38,784 INFO     call to "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo status" succeeded.
2012-11-01 16:18:40,009 ERROR    "git --work-tree=/tmp/tmpHZMY4L/repo push ssh://logerrit/core 
HEAD:refs/for/libreoffice-3-6" command returned non-null.

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