Re: How to do add-on merge requests and get a pipeline to run?

>> I think that you have to physically add the commits from MR 3111
>> before the commits of MR 3115 to make the pipeline get executed (and
>> tell the users in the MR description to ignore these commits).  It
>> seems that gitlab's CI doesn't support the case where you want to
>> merge branch A into an arbitrary branch B.  Branch B must always be
>> 'master' AFAICS.
>>
>> Maybe Jonas knows more.
> 
> From what I have read so far, I consider it likely that once request
> 3111 gets merged upstream, request 3115 will be reoriented on master
> and will then presumably run the pipelines just fine.

Probably yes.

> But right now it doesn't.  Which means slow progress of projects
> done in multiple steps if the first step has to go through all
> stages of acceptance before the second one can even get review
> attention.

As a told you: Let's assume MR #1 contains commits a, b, c, and MR #2
commits d, e, f, and MR #2 depends on MR #1.  To make the pipeline run
successfully for MR #2, copy commits a, b, c so that MR#2 actually
consists of a, b, c, d, e, f.  This is tedious and awkward to manage,
I know, but better than waiting IMHO.


    Werner