Re: git and peer review

> On Sat, May 03 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
>
>  > Case 1
>  >     I ask someone to review my patches at my machine. If the review
>  > passes, i have to add Reviewed-by line to each commit and then merge
>  > it to the master branch. However, i find no easy way to add
>  > reviewed-by line. Maybe adding --reviewed-by  option to cherry-pick or
>  > rebase or merge?
>  >
>  > Case 2
>  >    The reviewer is the maintainer, so i ask him to pull and review. So
>  > now it is his turn to add review-by line. But still, how?
>
>  I do something similar using git filter-branch --msg-filter.  I have a
>  little shell script call git-add-checked (our convention is to have a
>  "checked: " line in the commit message):
>
>  --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  #!/bin/sh
>
>  usage() {
>     cat <<EOF
>  Usage: git-add-checked <checker> [<filter-branch options>] <rev-list options>
>  EOF
>  }
>
>  checker="$1"
>  [ -n "$checker" ] || { usage >&2; exit 2; }
>  shift
>
>  set -x
>  git filter-branch --msg-filter "sed '\$a\\
>  \\
>  checked: $checker'" "$@"
>  --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>  Then, after getting my changes reviewed, I just do:
>
>  $ git-add-checked joe.bloggs trunk..
>
>  This adds a "checked: joe.bloggs" line at the end of the commit message
>  for all of the commits on the current branch since trunk (which is a
>  remote branch maintained by git-svn).
>