Re: Issues rebasing other people's branches

Hi,

Yep, maybe something changed in gitlab (haven't checked in details)! 
You are now "Maintainer" of xfburn, you should be able to rebase and merge :)

October 18, 2022 at 8:57 AM, "Gaël Bonithon" wrote:



> 
> Hi Hunter,
> 
> It seems to me that before you could rebase merge requests as a developer, and that's what the doc says [1] (force push to non-protected branches). But apparently you can't anymore: I've tried on components where I'm a developer and I can't, yet there's no conflict (otherwise the message is different), and I'm pretty sure the branch is unprotected (recent requests not made on master).
> 
> Cheers,
> Gaël
> 
> --
> [1] https://gitlab.xfce.org/help/user/permissions.md
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 at 3:32 AM, Hunter Turcin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello again :)
> >  
> >  I was recently given Developer permissions on the Xfburn repository and
> >  had a question about the current preferred workflow for rebasing
> >  changes in a merge request before merging.
> >  
> >  I see that the GitLab instance is configured to require a rebase of the
> >  source branch onto the target branch before a merge can be performed in
> >  the UI. I am able to perform the rebase through the UI when I own the
> >  branch in the merge request ([1]), but when I attempt to do the same
> >  for merge requests involving branches I don't own ([2], [3], [4]), I
> >  get an error. The UI says "Something went wrong. Please try again."
> >  Normally I would assume this is due to me not having permissio to
> >  write to the source branch (which I can confirm I don't when attempting
> >  to rebase and then push to the source branch manually outside of the
> >  GitLab UI), but I notice that the error is preceded by a request to
> >  https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/-/merge_requests/null?skip_ci=false
> >  which does not seem right (specifically, the merge request number being
> >  null).
> >  
> >  I would like to confirm: is the behavior of not being able to rebase
> >  branches I don't own through the UI expected?
> >  
> >  Thanks,
> >  Hunter Turcin
> >  
> >  [1]: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/-/merge_requests/11
> >  [2]: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/-/merge_requests/13
> >  [3]: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/-/merge_requests/12
> >  [4]: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/-/merge_requests/10
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