Phabricator Workflow Walk-through

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have set up Phabricator and set up MozPhab before proceeding!

While some developers use bookmarks/etc to track changes, for this this guide we will use just repository heads: no bookmarks or labels. This essentially means “just start coding off tip and commit”. The hg wip alias provides a view of the repository that allows for keeping track of the work.

(If you want to dig deeper into the “to label or not to label” discussion, see this document)

Landing a commit to mozilla-central

For this example we will craft one change for review. When we get feedback that changes are required we will amend our commit in-place.

We’ll use:

• One commit

• One review request per commit

• hg amend to add fix-ups to our commit

• moz-phab to request code reviews

Fixing the code

Let’s start with a clean checkout.

$ hg wip
@    460880 tip Merge inbound to mozilla-central.  a=merge
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~ ~

$ vim dom/audiochannel/AudioChannelAgent.cpp
# hack hack

$ hg status
M dom/audiochannel/AudioChannelAgent.cpp

When we write the commit message we should follow the Firefox source tree’s common commit message format. We will include a Bug ID and list of reviewers. See the committing rules for more information about proper commit message formatting.

$ hg commit
Bug 1445923 - WebAudio: Remove b2g dead code r?sylvestre


Removed dead code from ...

• You are allowed to skip the bug number and reviewer names if you don’t have them yet, but the Lando automated landing system, used later in this walk-through, will insist that you add them before the code can be landed.

Requesting a Review

Before we request a review we should check for changes upstream.

$ hg pull --rebase

The moz-phab command will take care of creating a code review for us. It will automatically link the review to the BMO bug as well as notifying the reviewers.

$ moz-phab
Submitting 1 commit:
(New) 460880:e376ef5bf453 Bug 1445923 - WebAudio: Remove b2g dead code r?sylvestre
Submit to Phabricator (YES/No/Always)?

...

Completed
(D55555) 460880:e376ef5bf453 Bug 1445923 - WebAudio: Remove b2g dead code r?sylvestre
-> https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D55555

Addressing feedback

When it’s time to address feedback we use hg amend.

• hg commit --amend also works, and allows you to update the commit description while amending the commit.

$ hg wip
@  460881 tip Bug 1445923 - WebAudio: Remove b2g dead code r?sylvestre
o    460880 Merge inbound to mozilla-central.  a=merge
|\
~ ~


$ hg checkout 460881
$ vim dom/audiochannel/AudioChannelAgent.cpp
# fixup fixup

$ hg amend

Check off the Done item in the Phabricator UI.

Now run moz-phab a second time. Phabricator will automatically submit your Done items in the UI and notify your reviewers that you have made updates.

$ moz-phab

Landing the changes

Everything looks good: the reviewers have approved our changes. Let’s land our changes.

On your revision page in Phabricator click the “View Stack in Lando” link in the right-hand menu:

You will be taken to the Lando revision overview page. Press “Preview Landing” and give the change one last review: double-check the commit message, etc., before hitting the “Land” button.

Hit the “Land” button and Lando will automatically land your changes.

Where to go from here

moz-phab has other features including the ability to update and land entire stacks of related commits. Check out the Submitting Patches section for more information.