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[Jason Kölker <jkoelker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:03 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
> Amongst things git-review does:
> 
>   Rebases against the branch you're submitting to, rather than against
> the place you cloned from
>   Allows you to skip rebasing if you want
>   Submit against a named branch
>   Explicitly set the topic
>   Downloads commit-msg hook if needed
>   Sets up the gerrit remote if needed - and knows how to map having
> cloned the repo from somewhere else to the gerrit repo you mean.

I'm wondering why not just use android's `repo` tool that does most of
this already and just add extra hooks or features to it (not sure if it
does named branch submission or topics currently).

Happy Hacking!

7-11