This plugin provides a way to mark a change dependent on other change(s). To mark a change dependent, click on edit button in ‘Depends-on’ section in change info block and save dependencies with the format c1 c2 c3 .... where c1, c2 and c3 are gerrit change numbers. User can also post a change level comment with the list of dependencies under a change in the Gerrit page (not an inline diff comment or patchset level comment) in a single line with the format Depends-on: c1 c2 c3 .... where c1, c2 and c3 are gerrit change numbers. Any number of changes can be provided in the depends-on edit textbox and after the Depends-on: tag in comment section. The Depends-on: tag is case-sensitive. Only changes listed in the most recent Depends-on: tag are considered as valid dependencies and older tags are ignored. To remove existing dependencies, a Depends-on: tag with no changes must be added (or) save depends-on edit window with empty text.
When a change is propagated, the @PLUGIN@ plugin adds a Depends-on: tag to the propagated change. Depends-on: created via change propagation have Change-Ids rather than actual change numbers. This plugin doesn't automatically propagate dependencies as there is no generic way to determine what the right destination branches are. A new Depends-on: tag can be added manually by updating the Change-Ids to the right change numbers if they resolve to changes destined for the desired branches.
Adding below as a change comment makes the change dependent on two other changes, 123 and 124.
Depends-on: 123 124
When the change is propagated, following tag is added on the destination change, where Ibd61365f87a4d7fbb5d62ffbe4f563f675e000c5 and I9a4b8b1499422464310cd6fd54e01fe0d1cf6714 are the Change-Ids of 123 and 124 respectively.
Depends-on: Ibd61365f87a4d7fbb5d62ffbe4f563f675e000c5 I9a4b8b1499422464310cd6fd54e01fe0d1cf6714
Adding below as a change comment makes the change not dependent on any other changes. When such a change is propagated, no Depends-on tag is added to the propagated change.
Depends-on: