git-review
error: fatal: –preserve-merges was replaced by –rebase-mergesI ran into an error with git-review that I couldn’t find on the internet:
$ git review --version git-review version 2.1.0 $ git --version git version 2.34.0 $ git review Errors running git rebase -p -i remotes/gerrit/production fatal: --preserve-merges was replaced by --rebase-merges It is likely that your change has a merge conflict. You may resolve it in the working tree now as described above and then run 'git review' again, or if you do not want to resolve it yet (note that the change can not merge until the conflict is resolved) you may run 'git rebase --abort' then 'git review -R' to upload the change without rebasing.
Apparently the latest version of gerrit is incompatible with the latest version of git, due to git renaming flags.
Fortunately, the git-review
repository has already been updated with a fix:
$ git clone https://opendev.org/opendev/git-review $ cd git-review $ git show commit 7182166ec00ad3645821435d72c5424b4629165f Author: Pierre Riteau <[email protected]> Date: Wed Nov 17 12:29:06 2021 +0100 Fix use of removed --preserve-merges option The --preserve-merges (-p) option was replaced by --rebase-merges (-r). This fixes the following error when using git version 2.34.0: Errors running git rebase -p -i remotes/gerrit/stable/xena fatal: --preserve-merges was replaced by --rebase-merges [...]
As of November 22 2021, that commit has not yet been released to general availablity, so a source installation is currently necessary.
$ brew uninstall git-review Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/git-review/2.1.0_1... (851 files, 11.5MB) $ pipx install . installed package git-review 2.1.1.dev5, Python 3.9.8 These apps are now globally available - git-review done! ✨ 🌟 ✨ $ git-review --version git-review version 2.1.1.dev5
Now git-review
works as expected.
$ git review remote: remote: Processing changes: new: 1 (\) remote: Processing changes: new: 1 (|) remote: Processing changes: new: 1 (/) remote: Processing changes: new: 1 (-) remote: Processing changes: new: 1 (\) remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, new: 1 (\) remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, new: 1 (\) remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, new: 1, done remote: remote: SUCCESS remote: remote: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/740712 superset: set webserver timeout to 180 seconds [NEW] remote: To ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/puppet.git * [new reference] HEAD -> refs/for/production%topic=heads/T294771-superset-webserver-timeout