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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor
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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Heh, a funny collision of terms.

The green Merged means that the pull request was submitted into the branch.

The DO NOT MERGE text is an instruction for automerger. Android is developed in a truly startling amount of related git branches. Automerger is the tool that propagates commits back and forth to make sure pull requests get to all flavours, versions and devices.

DO NOT MERGE tells Automerger not to propagate that pull request to newer versions of Android, i.e. it's a fix for the currently released version that's not relevant to the next development version of Android for whatever reason.

Also seen, although more rarely, is DO NOT MERGE ANYWHERE which tells Automerger not to propagate the pull request to any other branch other than where it was originally submitted, including branches for related products on the same version of Android.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Interesting, thanks for explaining. Like someone else was saying it is already in AOSP not introduced in lineage which makes sense since it is just a cherrypick

[–] CodeMonkey 1 points 10 months ago

Out of curiosity, any idea what automerger they use? I have always been on the lookout for one for hobby projects.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But thanks for keeping my phone up to date, it is appreciated ♥

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Same, I run 3 devices all on Lineage and its great. Who know that you could still get updates and support for a device from 10 years ago, suck on that apple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's just kind of sucks that updates consistently breaks banking apps and other stuff relying of passing safetynet. Every time I update I have to do the Magisk workaround again which is really annoying.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was merged I'd be more concerned how on earth you have infinite Firefox tabs open

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's when you have more than 99 tabs open

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What kind of psychopath has that many tabs open!?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I take personal offense to that. How do you not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I bookmark stuff I need at a later time, or will need again, and read the stuff I want to read now and close the tab when I'm done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I close all the tabs regularly. Bookmark for those that I need to save for longer than one session

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I keep tabs open as a sort of "read page later" list. I never seem to get to reading them though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So do I, for a few days. If I haven't read it by then, I'll either bookmark for later or just close. I pretty much never have more than 10-15 active tabs ever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I got to that once, on mobile I've never worked out the rule for when FF opens a new tab vs opening a site in your current tab. They just kind of silently accumulate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a bit weird with FF, I just purge open tabs for unnecessary tabs daily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's a setting to auto-close tabs after a certain amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

"Oh no! What if I need it later"

~ me, more than 99 times

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I like to be in control of what gets closed and when, so nothing gets closed before I bookmark it if need it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's the problem I have, started while ago. It opens a new tab instead switching to existing tab.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

As we know, scientists have not yet discovered any numbers past 99

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why did they submit this as a pull request in the first place? Just commit it to a WIP branch until it’s ready to merge. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably to get some other benefitof the PR system, such as CI tests

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does gerrit have a draft state? In azure devops you can mark PR as draft , won't trigger any builds but you can still start them manually

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

manually

This is probably why the dev created a PR, less clicks

[–] sf1tzp 2 points 10 months ago

I don’t remember if it did when I used it. Our convention was to -2 your own change until it was ready to go 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I do this often. It's useful if you want to send it to your coworker for some early feedback or as others have said, have the CI run

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's been a while since I've worked with AOSP, but I had always understood it to be some weird shit with Google's internal processes. The "do not merge" commits are all over the AOSP, or at least they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are a LOT of these in lineage repos. There must be a reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe they dont use squash merges, so all the intermediate commits remain on-chain?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

That's why there are draft merge requests nowadays. Although I kinda miss the "DONT MERGE WE GONNA DIE" comments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

gigachad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Nice