Re: Gitlab Migration

[Theodor Thornhill]

On 28 August 2021 17:24:12 CEST, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no> writes:
>
>> ** Submitting patches by email.
>> It is possible to send patches using a web interface.  It works by using
>> the `prepare a patchset` button on your own clone.  So the process
>> is usually:
>>   - clone the repo
>>   - pull it locally
>>   - do the work
>>   - push the work
>>   - use the `prepare a patchset` button or `git format-patch`
>
>Oh, the "prepare a patchset" button sounds very much like Github/Lab's
>"pull request" button?  Is that accurate?
>

100%. That is what it's for. 
If you look at https://lists.sr.ht/~theo/public-inbox you'll see three posts. 
One is with a patch as attachment(this fails), other is git send-email and the 
last one is a patch of a personal fork of Emacs sent using the web UI.


>> * Code should be accompanied by documentation
>> * Formatting code commits
>
>I don't quite understand why we have these in the Gitlab requirements
>list -- they seem pretty orthogonal to everything.
>
>> * Closely integrated bugtracker
>> automated tasks for patch application and status updates exist here
>
>Is an issue automatically closed if we push a change containing a
>magical string like "closes issue #foo" in the commit message?
>
Yes