When working with Gerrit, we frequently have multiple parallel commits outstanding which are not merged to master. When master has changed compared to the parent of these commits, we frequently rebase the commit on top of the current master. This means that while the CommitDates of the commits are linear in time, the AuthorDates are not linear (because AuthorDate reflects the time the commit was originally made, not when it was rebased to master).
QB git plugin fails to record history in this case:
00:05:32,610 [master>
Clone@BUILDER:8811] WARN - Ignoring fetching changes because the start revision (11aea079bfe6e5688e5fe0f6f3a852aa286534f7) seems elder than end revision (06d5f002015f52af675d3028ce7794f8465541ed).
There is a similar issue
http://track.pmease.com/browse/QB-1139 which was closed with resolution "Won't fix" - can you please comment?
We are using "Author Name" as the "Committer User Schema". And we wouldn't like to switch to "Committer Name" because the committer does not necessarily have anything to do with the commit contents.
We would just like QB to not ignore commits (and report 0 SCM changes in build UI) when the AuthorDates are not linear in time.