Preferred approach to backporting a group of patches in Gerrit

[Patrick Luby]

On 2023-11-27 10:24 a.m., Caolán McNamara wrote:
> I generally go with option 2. Typically cherry-pick them locally to the
> branch I want them in, git rebase -i, s to squash the dependants into
> the parent, add a bit of text about the overall issue, leave the two
> commit messages and review links so each bit can be read separately at
> the original gerrit review.
> 
> FWIW gerrit uses the last Change-Id line it sees as the identifier to
> link the new review to an old review in the UI.

Thanks for the tips, Caolàn! I had forgotten about adding/editing the 
Gerrit headers in the commit message to further link the backport change 
to the original commits.

Patrick