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diff --git a/Help/dev/review.rst b/Help/dev/review.rst index e23c0fb..03f6cda 100644 --- a/Help/dev/review.rst +++ b/Help/dev/review.rst @@ -65,9 +65,14 @@ The "Kitware Robot" (``@kwrobot``) automatically performs basic checks on the commits proposed in a MR. If all is well the robot silently reports a successful "build" status to GitLab. Otherwise the robot posts a comment with its diagnostics. **A topic may not be merged until the automatic -review succeeds.** The MR submitter is expected to address the robot's -comments by *rewriting* the commits named by the robot's diagnostics -(e.g. via ``git rebase -i``). +review succeeds.** + +Note that the MR submitter is expected to address the robot's comments by +*rewriting* the commits named by the robot's diagnostics (e.g., via +``git rebase -i``). This is because the robot checks each commit individually, +not the topic as a whole. This is done in order to ensure that commits in the +middle of a topic do not, for example, add a giant file which is then later +removed in the topic. The automatic check is repeated whenever the topic branch is updated. One may explicitly request a re-check by adding a comment with the |