An ISC-licensed program which allows for reviewing patches, downloading patches, and querying a Gerrit server via SSH, from the command line. It aims to be unobtrusive and fast.
Your distribution likely has most of the requirements packaged already.
Exherbo users, there is an exheres in ::somasis; dev-scm/git-gerrit.
git clone https://github.com/Somasis/git-gerritor download a release.makemake installas root
After installation, run man git-gerrit. If you prefer, you can also just do
git gerrit -h for a non-manpage help message.
Keep in mind, that since git-gerrit does aim to an extent to be a
replacement for git-review, it actually uses .gitreview files for
finding where the repository's Gerrit instance is at. It is currently
compatible with the host and project parameters of .gitreview files, and
there's not really much reason to change it.
Originally, I had been using OpenStack's git-review for using Gerrit in a
more usable interface than plain git. However, it has a few drawbacks:
- Has one main function: pushing patches for review.
- Also can list patches, but the listing is pretty useless and is obviously not intended to be one of the main features of the program.
- Code-Review functionality is limited. I don't think there even is any.
In addition, I wanted to teach myself some more about how Gerrit works, and
provide for myself a nice alternative to offerings like git-review, and the
more interactive and full-featured gertty. gertty is also nice, but I
found it's interface to be a little confusing, and I felt like I might as well
just be using the web interface; gertty feels like an attempt at emulating
Gerrit's web interface in the terminal, which doesn't work well to me.
So, I set out for a few goals:
- Provide the ability to do very common functions in code reviewing, via a non-interactive command interface. No GUIs, no prompts.
- Don't be very dependency heavy, but don't rely on very fragile methods of
working with Gerrit's output and
gitinternals. Thus, the dependency on the very useful but lean program,jshon. - Do not attempt to emulate the web interface, or it's oddities; create a
new interface which does not have the drawbacks of emulations of the web
interface. This gave it the non-interactive methods, which are modeled
heavily after
git's own commands; push, log, etc.
With these in mind, I created git-gerrit, which aims to provide a nice
interface to Gerrit, with it's common operations in mind, that does not
attempt to entirely replace the web interface, but instead aims to let you
go between working on code and review lists of patches without interrupting
the workflow by needing web interface usage for simple tasks.
Licensed under the ISC license.
Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Kylie McClain somasis@exherbo.org
Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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Written by Kylie McClain somasis@exherbo.org, 2015-2016.