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Using Differential with plain Git, without requiring Arc
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Phorge would like to introduce a "git magic ref", so that you can just push your changes there and automatically create a Differential revision.

This would make it easier to use Differential, since some newcomers do not want to install the Arcanist cli tool just for this Phab/Phorge's workflow.

Prior work:

In Phabricator, the planned implementation was using T8092 virtualizing Git refs in hosted repositories, but we might want a different implementation.

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avivey created this task.Jul 6 2023, 13:29
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avivey mentioned this in T15096: Discuss Arcanist as a barrier to adoption of Phorge and how to address the underlying issues..Jul 6 2023, 13:29
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For completeness - Landing revisions from the UI Since they wouldn't be able to land from git? - Would have to be enabled in the UI

At one point I did get this working on a test install (land from UI) - the steps are a bit convoluted, but, it is functional

avivey added a subtask: T15250: Raw use of "git diff" provides insufficient Diff Context.Aug 20 2023, 08:20
avivey mentioned this in D25359: Generate more fields in Download Raw Diff.Aug 20 2023, 08:34
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avivey mentioned this in Q109: Multiple commits in one Audit? (Answer 140).Feb 10 2024, 09:46
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Something I stumbled upon few months ago (via forgejo): agit-flow[^1]. Maybe worth sharing here -- for teh record? It does have some CLI client (git-repo) but it's optional and push via git push origin HEAD:refs/for/<target-branch>/<session> would trigger the Code Review process, without gerrit's Change-Id hack.

[^1]: agit stands for "Alibaba git" because that's from Alibaba (the Chinese conglomerate).

Cigaryno added a project: Differential.Dec 30 2024, 08:47
Cigaryno moved this task from Backlog to Improvements on the Feature Requests board.
Cigaryno moved this task from Backlog to Feature Requests on the Differential board.
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