Re: Killing obsolete Jenkins builds

Just in case,
Do you know
git commit --amend to update last commit before pushing it to gerrit
And
git rebase -i HEAD~5 to rewrite your local commit history including for exemple modify the third 
commit, merge commits 1 3 and 4 into a single one?
Philippe


Le 19 novembre 2015 04:20:03 CET, Ashod Nakashian <ashnakash@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Ashod Nakashian
> <ashnakash@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > (Sorry if this has already been discussed/considered.)
> > >
> > > Once a patch is pushed to Gerrit a Jenkins build automatically
> starts.
> > And
> > > once subsequent patches are pushed the cycle repeats.
> > >
> > > Is there a reason to keep running the builds of (old) patches that
> will
> > not
> > > get cherry picked?
> >
> > Is there a reason to keep pushing these patches then ?
> > Just stop building patch over patch and pushing them in bulk.. and
> > make your patch independent of each other as much as possible.
>
> Sorry, I didn't explain well.
>
> The patches are related. They are updates based on feedback, partial
> failure or improvement.
>
> They aren't bulk pushes (whatever that means). They are updates on a
> single
> changeset.
>
> Why do people send multiple patches per push? That's the right question
> to
> ask.
>
> And the answer is: to improve the previous patch.
>
> Hence my question. If a patch has partially failed, or I got feedback
> to
> improve it, or (insert reason here), and I want to push an update, why
> should the previous patch still build when it's not necessary?
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
>
> > iow: make a patch, push it to gerrit, come back to 'master' make
> > another patch, push it to gerrit etc.
> > and _not_
> > make a patch, push it to gerrit
> > git pull -r
> > make another patch (on top of the non merged patch you just pushed to
> > gerrit), push it to gerrit => both patch get rebuilt
> > etc..
> Obviously I'm not doing that. Obviously.
>
>
> > > To me it looks completely wasteful to spend hours building a few
> patches
> > > that were pushed one after the other when only the last one is
> relevant.
> > Then do not push new version of 'irrelevant' patches
> >
> > > Not
> > > only it is wasteful to valuable shared resources, but the user is
> > punished
> >
> > again, do not do that then.
> >
> > Norbert
>
>
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