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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.

metadata/request_write.go +11

@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ func validateRequestForWrite(r *Request) error {
	53	53	if r.Head != "" && !shaRE.MatchString(r.Head) {
	54	54	return fmt.Errorf("requests: head %q is not a full commit id", r.Head)
	55	55	}
		56	if r.HeadRef != "" {
		57	if !validHeadRef(r.HeadRef) {
		58	return fmt.Errorf("requests: head_ref %q is not a branch name", r.HeadRef)
		59	}
		60	if r.Head == "" {
		61	return fmt.Errorf("requests: head_ref names a branch, so head must name the commit it pointed at")
		62	}
		63	}
	56	64	if r.MergedBase != "" && !shaRE.MatchString(r.MergedBase) {
	57	65	return fmt.Errorf("requests: merged base %q is not a full commit id", r.MergedBase)
	58	66	}
@@ -71,6 +79,9 @@ func renderRequest(r *Request) ([]byte, error) {
	71	79	d.Word("author", r.Author)
	72	80	d.Word("base", r.Base)
	73	81	d.Word("head", r.Head)
		82	if r.HeadRef != "" {
		83	d.Word("head_ref", r.HeadRef)
		84	}
	74	85	d.List("closes", r.Closes)
	75	86	d.Word("created", r.Created.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
	76	87	if r.State == "merged" {