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Show which branch a change request came from

8e1005eb2c104934adef950c5afc090d4025ce06 · Keenan Nemetz · 13d ago · parent b7ac1a00

Show which branch a change request came from

A request records the exact commit under review, and the page showed only
that: `main ← 43f98bcd`. The branch the work is on is how people talk about
a change, fetch it, and find it after it lands, and it was being thrown
away when the request was opened — the web form resolved the chosen branch
to a commit and kept only the commit.

`request.md` now records `head_ref:` beside `head:`. It is a display hint
and nothing else: approvals, checks, the diff and the landing gate still
name the commit, and a test pins that a branch name cannot authorise a
different tip. The request page, the request list and `vole change show`
show it, and the page marks the branch as moved or deleted when it no
longer points at the reviewed commit, so the name reads as provenance
rather than as a claim about what is being reviewed.

It is optional on read: records written before it existed still load, and
a request opened from a bare commit id records no branch.

docs/change-requests.md +7

@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ vole change approve <id> --as <your-name>
	38	38	git push origin feature:refs/heads/main
	39	39	```
	40	40
		41	The request records the commit under review in `head:` and the branch it was opened
		42	from in `head_ref:`, and the request page, the request list and `vole change show`
		43	show both. The branch is a display hint, not part of the review: approvals, checks,
		44	the diff and the landing gate all name the commit, and when the branch moves past it
		45	the page says so instead of presenting the new tip as reviewed. A request opened
		46	from a bare commit id records no branch.
		47
	41	48	Other commands:
	42	49
	43	50	```sh