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It refers to "changelist". Google uses a Perforce-like VCS internally, and they kept the Perforce terminology: https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.051/manuals
by jdm2212 7y ago
It refers to "changelist". Google uses a Perforce-like VCS internally, and they kept the Perforce terminology: https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.051/manuals/p4guide/07_changelists.html https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.051/manuals/p4guide/07...
- jonny_eh 7y agoaka "Pull Request" in Github parlance.
- hota_mazi 7y agoaka "Merge Request" in Gitlab vernacular (which makes more sense than "pull request" in my opinion).
- cpeterso 7y agoA Perforce changelist is more like a git commit than a GitHub pull request.
- jefftk 7y agoThe way Google uses it, a "CL" means both "a thing you sent out for pre-commit review" and "a submitted change". It's very similar to a GitHub PR, if you use a master branch and always squash your PRs when merging to master.
- aledalgrande 7y agoaka "patch" for the Linux kernel development community
- sanderjd 7y agoYeah, merge request seems like the best terminology of the ones I've seen.