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# gerrit-queue
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This daemon automatically rebases and submits changesets from a Gerrit
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instance, ensuring they still pass CI.
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In a usual gerrit setup with a linear master history, different developers
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await CI feedback on a rebased changeset, then one clicks submit, and
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effectively makes everybody else rebase again. `gerrit-queue` is meant to
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remove these races to master. Developers can add a specific tag to a changeset,
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and if all preconditions are met (passing CI and passing Code Review),
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`gerrit-queue` takes care of rebasing and submitting it to master.
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## How it works
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Gerrit only knows about Changesets (and some relations to other changesets),
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but usually developers think in terms of multiple changesets.
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### The Fetching Phase
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`gerrit-queue` fetches all changesets from gerrit, and tries to identify these
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chains of changesets. We call them `Series`. All changesets need to have strict
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parent/child relationships to be detected.
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Series are ordered by the number of changesets in them. This ensures longer
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series are merged faster, and less rebases are triggered. In the future, this
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might be extended to other metrics.
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### The Submit Phase
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We loop over all series. If all changesets of a given series pass the required
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preconditions (passing CI, passing Code Review, autosubmit Tag) and it's
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rebased on top of the current destination branch's HEAD, it can be submitted.
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The current serie is removed from the list of series, and we update our HEAD to
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the commit ID of the last commit in the submitted series.
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### The Rebase Phase
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We loop over all remaining series. The first one matching the required
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preconditions is rebased on top of the (advanced HEAD) (and if this fails, we
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skip and keep trying with the next Series one after another).
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These three phases are designed to be stateless, and currently triggered once
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per run.
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This is supposed to be moved to a more reactive model, so that the submit phase
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is triggered by Webhooks for CI feedback, and we don't rebase too often
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## Compile and Run
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```sh
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go generate
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GERRIT_PASSWORD=mypassword go run main.go --url https://gerrit.mydomain.com --username myuser --project myproject
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```
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