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Re: Setup non-pushing gerrit instance for glibc.
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Gerrit's notion of a rebases and conflicts is a bit unclear to me. I
> think it doesn't run the real Git behind the scenes, so it can't know
> what kind of conflicts can be resolved by automated merging.
Gerrit uses JGit, which does perform automated merging. It is an
independent implementation from Git --- there's no guarantee that
their behavior always matches each other, but if one is worse in a
particular case then the relevant project would consider it a bug.
Thanks,
Jonathan