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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by kortilla on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:37PM (#24924958)
The branch model must have changed. I used to push directly to a branch that was the change number (not the revision number) and of course had to force because it was the same.

So what happens when you push to changes/nnnn/12 when revision 11 hasn’t been created?

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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by lacksconfidence on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:13PM (#24926352)
At least the way our installation works we don't push to changes/nnnn/12, rather changes are pushed to refs/for/{branch} (often refs/for/master). This endpoint isn't an actual branch. It triggers gerrit to look up the nnnn for the Change-Id in the commit message and create the appropriate branch for the next patch set.
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