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authorThéo Zimmermann2020-05-14 15:31:11 +0200
committerThéo Zimmermann2020-05-14 15:31:11 +0200
commit8dd5c47007817c104d57a449409a6b9c6f8ef12e (patch)
tree416c8be9d63ea6b21ea66d7a3e1ff47cc132ba4b
parent6f2b88649ec0c1e27befe7bcd2cdbec0ccee95d6 (diff)
parent122ab27b2b4f02f370826a0a8ade78a0c0b2d416 (diff)
Merge PR #12312: Clarify the documentation for merging PRs with overlays
Reviewed-by: Zimmi48
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@@ -828,7 +828,12 @@ organization, because of a limitation of GitHub).
- the overlays that are backward-compatible (normally the case for
overlays fixing Coq code) should have been merged *before* the PR
- can be merged;
+ can be merged; it might be a good idea to ask the PR author to
+ remove the overlay information from the PR to get a fresh CI run
+ and ensure that all the overlays have been merged; the PR assignee
+ may also push a commit removing the overlay information (in that
+ case the assignee is not considered a co-author, hence no need to
+ change the assignee)
- the overlays that are not backward-compatible (normally only the
case for overlays fixing OCaml code) should be merged *just after*