Document change set dependencies and cherry-pick

Add a note about dependencies being ignored in cherry-pick mode
to help project administrators choose the right submit action.

This is based on a mailing list discussion:

  http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/aa53fe63197183af

Change-Id: I4131c0fe8725ffc5ccbf0a0f16053665a7a5b50b
Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>
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Francois Marier 2011-04-12 16:00:37 +12:00
parent 463427a371
commit 8748e5e159

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@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ end of the commit message a short summary of the change's approvals,
and a URL link back to the change on the web. The committer header
is also set to the submitter, while the author header retains the
original patch set author.
+
Note that Gerrit ignores patch set dependencies when operating in
cherry-pick mode. Submitters must remember to submit changes in
the right order since inter-change dependencies will not be
enforced for them.
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