Thoughts on "usd-merge commit"

[Robie Basak]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Presumably I would need to push to the repository before uploading, so
> that the importer will pick up my commit in favour of importing its own
> even after we have it running automatically. I wonder though if it would
> be better to push to some other branch or tag (or even no branch, just
> the upload/<version> tag), and let the importer pull that into the
> correct pocket branch?
> 
> If so, could it detect that the one of the parents of my upload commit
> is the same as that of the current pocket branch pointer, and just move
> the pocket branch pointer up? Is this logic sound?

Taking this one step further, what if the user doesn't run "usd-merge
commit" at all, and just pushes to an upload/<version> tag? This would
have debian/sid (the new merge base) as an ancestor, but not the pocket
branch. Then could the importer create the merge commit instead?