Git gerrit patch settings

If you only want to play with gerrit and do not want to write a patch for a real wikimedia software project, use our gerrit test. To use ssh you may need to configure your ssh public key in your settings. Upload your patch from git to the target project, where project is the project specifier as per the gerrit web ui and may include a prefix, eg cdtorg. Choose a project, enter committer name and email, commit message and unified diff, and press submit.

Checkout the change the checkout b is optional but recommended. The uploader will apply the patch and upload it for you to gerrit. Input a list of change numbers, pickpatch can help you cherry pick patches from gerrit server reolve install path automatically if your project is created by repo. The obvious and easiest way is to download the archive or the patch file through the gerrit web interface and manually apply it to my local source. In gerrits settings click the new contributor agreement link and sign the agreement. If you do not have a wikimedia developer account yet, go to wikitech.

After setting up the server the next thing youll probably want to do is open the gerrit page and log in at least thats the first thing we wanted to do. Gerrit web interface admin groups noninteractive users add your jenkins user. Gerrit is also a good collaboration tool for storing the conversations that occur. Again, reopen tortoisegit settings and choose git or git config click on edit global. This option is useful to rebase a change edit on the newest patch set when the.

Since you will be frequently working with the same gerrit server, add an ssh host block in. Working with git for windows typo3 contribution guide. Get the cherrypick command from gerrit ui for the required patch set. You can run git daemon for the repositories to make them available via git. Everyone configure local checkouts for your account. Follow the instructions in one or more of the following subsections, depending on which qt repositories you want to setup gerrit for. Gerrit configure git once you have installed git, you need to customize the configuration variables to add your personal information. I am sajid, i like to know is it possible that i can go back to my previous patch in my commit. If the patch is to be applied to another branch which can be found in gerrit, use cherrypick button to do it. In order to easily push your changes to gerrit, we recommend setting a git remote that points to gerrit.

Now that youve configured your account on the server, you should configure your local checkouts. On the way to delivery, i fixed and update things and pushed into gerrit with commit amend. Run the git fetch part in checkout or cherry pick commands, use git merge, git rebase, git cherrypick or any command that can manipulates commits to apply the patch you need. Git pulling should i use git pull origin master or git pull gerrit master. Imagine that on top of the public commit p, you applied wellknown patches x, y and z from somebody else, and then built your three patch series a, b, c, the history. We will get the result as shown in the following screenshot. This page describes the change related rest endpoints. Please also take note of the general information on the rest api. Open the folder with the repository here youll find folders such as build, typo3 and the hidden. This option is useful to rebase a change edit on the newest patch set when. Once all the steps above have been completed, youre ready to submit your patch to qt. The original patch set for the contributing guidelines doc did not include a sample commit message, this new patchset does. To verify a patch, we use one of two different automated processes.

Imagine that on top of the public commit p, you applied wellknown patches x, y and z from somebody else, and then built your threepatch series a, b, c, the history. For example, a notification email for a vote being set on the seventh patch set will take a value of 7. To be more specific, when amending an existing change adding changes to an existing patch set, you dont want to rebase against the master branch, as it causes the diffs to be cluttered. When you modify the code in the local file system, you can check for the changes within the directory using the following command. Webbased patch uploader for wmfs or any other, if you use a different. Always cherry pick the patch set, ignoring the parent lineage and instead creating a brand new.

The patch set footer states the number of the patch set that the email relates to. Verify, approve andor submit a patch set from the command line. For example, a notification email for a vote being set on. A gerrit change is a single commit, but there can be more than one version of the commit in the same change. Finally to create new patchset patchset 2 git add server. This is a tutorial which explains how to use git and gerrit for wikimedia development. On the way to delivery, i fixed and update things and pushed into gerrit with commit. The change number footer states the numeric id of the change, for example 92191. Because of this licensing model every file within the project must list the license that covers it in the header of the file. Run that cherrypick command, and use git commit amend, then push your change. The url you need to use will include not just the change number, but the patch set number too. Revert to older patch set version via the gerrit ui. May 05, 2014 this page describes the change related rest endpoints.

The remote repository gerrit is the origin for the code of wikimedia projects. You can cherry pick multiple patches in different repositories at the same time. If you want to save time and are techsavvy, use the very short howto guide instead. How to get previous patch in gerrit stack overflow. Create the profile through in gerrit web interface for your jenkins user, and set up a ssh key for that user. Sending a patch to gerrit is exactly the same as pushing a sequence of commits to a remote git repository. If you do, it will set up the changeid hook and gerrit remote for you. Follow the instructions below for your operating system, and dont. It may ask you for submitting lots of changes from one of the merged branches, or otherwise mangle the commit. If you dont know what your gerrit username is, you can check the gerrit settings. Unless youre a git expert, they should be the same. In the project options page you can see amongst other settings the url to use for cloning the git repository like you would normally do.

A prerequisite patch is shown as prerequisitepatchid. The same username and password will be used to log into gerrit below. You will need to add your ssh key to gerrit to access hosted git projects. But what i am experiencing now my last patch is a faulty so i like to go back to previous patch. Run the git fetch part in checkout or cherry pick commands, use git merge,git rebase,git cherrypick or any command that can manipulates commits to apply the patch you need. A prerequisite patch is shown as prerequisite patch id. In the field local there is already the name of your branch in the field remote make sure there is the value refsformaster if you push for current master. In the web ui, click the gear icon in the upper right to go to user settings. These may not all be available for you, depending on the server configuration. Cherrypick the specific patch set of the change list e. The above command allows to see which changes have been staged, which have not, and which files are not tracked by git.