Description Alex Blewitt 2011-02-21 13:03:58 EST

The history view is great for stepping through the prior history of the code. However, it would also be an ideal place to allow you to push changes to a remote system, instead of having to have it as a branch checked out locally first. For example, you could push an unmerged set of branch data to a Gerrit review system without having to be on that branch as well. Or you could use it to push the HEAD to a different branch (or on a backup server, or GitHub, which you may maintain).

You can of course do this by pushing from the repositories view, but this only pushes the HEAD. Being able to push from the review would permit you to push other changes as well. In other words, thsi would allow you to do the graphical equivalent of:

git push github HEAD^2:untested
git push backup master~4:backup
git push gerrit 8e50211:refs/for/master

Right now, you'd have to check that out to push it for a non-tagged release, as well as filling in the source refspec manually.