Clarify penalty performance for alternative change identifiers Release-Notes: skip Change-Id: I3c84998aca7e5f09e1e85c616bc70ce044caa6fd
diff --git a/Documentation/rest-api-changes.txt b/Documentation/rest-api-changes.txt index 72ee0b9..3974428 100644 --- a/Documentation/rest-api-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/rest-api-changes.txt
@@ -6262,7 +6262,13 @@ Identifier that uniquely identifies one change. It contains the URL-encoded project name as well as the change number: "'$$<project>~<numericId>$$'" -Gerrit also supports the following identifiers: +==== Alternative identifiers +Gerrit also supports an array of other change identifiers. + +[NOTE] +Using these identifiers comes with a performance penalty as they +require additional lookups to be translated to the +"'$$<project>~<numericId>$$'" identifier. * an ID of the change in the format "'$$<project>~<branch>~<Change-Id>$$'", where for the branch the `refs/heads/` prefix can be omitted