NAME

git-gerrit - Git extension to implement a Gerrit workflow

VERSION

version 0.022

SYNOPSIS

git gerrit new         [--update] TOPIC [BRANCH]
git gerrit push        [--keep] [--force] [--[no]rebase] [--draft] [--submit] \
                       [--base BASE] [--topic TOPIC] [--reviewer USER] [--cc USER]

git gerrit query       [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [[NAME=]QUERY]*
git gerrit my          [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [changes|drafts|watched|starred]
git gerrit show        CHANGE*

git gerrit fetch       CHANGE*
git gerrit checkout    CHANGE*
git gerrit upstream    [--keep] [--delete]
git gerrit cherry-pick [--edit] [--no-commit] CHANGE*

git gerrit rebase

git gerrit reviewer    [--add USERS] [--confirm] [--delete USERS] CHANGE*
git gerrit review      [--message TEXT] [--keep] [[LABEL]=VOTE]* CHANGE*
git gerrit abandon     [--message TEXT] [--keep] CHANGE*
git gerrit restore     [--message TEXT] CHANGE*
git gerrit revert      [--message TEXT] CHANGE*
git gerrit submit      [--no-wait-for-merge] [--keep] CHANGE*

git gerrit web         [OPTIONS --] CHANGE*

git gerrit config
git gerrit version

DESCRIPTION

Git-gerrit is a Git extension to manage changes using Gerrit Code Review.

Git-gerrit offers a rich set of sub-commands to make it easy to create, query, amend, review, and submit changes to Gerrit, making it possible to interact with it through the command-line, avoiding its web interface most of the time and improving your efficiency. The goal is to make Gerrit's review process feel like a natural extension of Git.

Git-gerrit provides three main features:

An easy and safe way to push changes to Gerrit through the git gerrit push sub-command, avoiding the need to type remote names and long refspecs.
A standard way to map Gerrit changes into local branches, referred to as "change-branches", making it easier to manage several changes simultaneously and to perform the fetch-amend-push review cycle.
Several sub-commands to query and inspect Gerrit changes and also to review and submit them.

Git-gerrit is implemented on top of Gerrit's REST API, which was consolidated in its version 2.6. As this API matures, expect git-gerrit to incorporate new functionality.

There are a few alternatives to git-gerrit described below.

GLOSSARY

There are a few concepts that should be clear in order to the sub-commands documentation below to make sense.

change

Each commit pushed to one of Gerrit's virtual branches (refs/for or refs/drafts) creates a change for review.

Change-Id

A Change-Id is a 40-hexadecimal characters long SHA-1 hash prefixed with an I. It uniquely identifies a change and is normally generated by the commit-msg hook and inserted in the commit message footer.

{change-id}

A {change-id}, is a more general identifier used by Gerrit's REST API to uniquely identify a change . It can be expressed in one of three forms:

As an ID of the change in the format "<project>~<branch>~<Change-Id>", where, for the branch, the refs/heads/ prefix can be omitted (e.g., myProject~master~I8473b95934b5732ac55d26311a706c9c2bde9940).
As a Change-Id if it uniquely identifies one change (e.g., I8473b95934b5732ac55d26311a706c9c2bde9940).
As a legacy numeric change ID (e.g., 4247).

You may pass any form of change-id to git-gerrit's sub-commands when they require a CHANGE argument. Most commonly, you'll be using the legacy numeric ID, just because it's more convenient.

upstream branch

You normally should avoid creating changes directly on a local tracking branch. Instead, you should create a local topic branch deriving from the tracking branch to work on each change. We refer to the tracking branch from which your topic branch derived as the topic's upstream branch.

change-branch

A change-branch is a local branch with a special name that git-gerrit creates and maps to a Gerrit change.

When the sub-command git gerrit new TOPIC BRANCH starts a new change it creates a topic branch named change/BRANCH/TOPIC, which we call a change-branch. We refer to BRANCH as the change-branch's upstream, because it is the branch from which the change-branch derives and to which it will be ultimately merged back again.

When git gerrit fetch CHANGE fetches an existing change it creates a change-branch named change/BRANCH/ID, where BRANCH is the name of the branch associated with the change, and ID is its legacy numeric change ID.

So, you should reserve the change/ top-level branch name for the change-branches managed by git-gerrit.

WORKFLOW

Here are the main use-cases of git-gerrit to manage your changes.

Creating a new change for review

Suppose you want to create a new change on master:

git gerrit new topic master
# edit
git commit
git gerrit push

First you create a new change-branch for your new change. If you're already in master you don't need to mention it on the first line. Then you make your change editing your working area and committing. When you're done, simply tell git-gerrit to push your change and get back to master.

In order to do the same thing using only standard Git commands you'd do something like this:

git checkout master
git pull --ff-only
git checkout -b change/master/topic
# edit
git commit
git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master
git checkout master
git branch -D change/master/topic

Reviewing a change

git gerrit my changes
git gerrit checkout 1234
git show
git gerrit review =-1

First, if you don't know the {change-id} of the change you want to review, you ask my changes to get a list of the changes still unreviewed. Then you checkout one change and study it. Finally, you record your review and gets back to the change's upstream branch.

Without git-gerrit you'd have to perform the review using Gerrit's web interface.

Amending a change

git gerrit checkout 1234
# edit
git commit --amend
git gerrit push

To amend a change you first check it out to a local change-branch. Then you can amend it and, finally, push it as another patch-set to Gerrit, checking out upstream again.

What if you want to make a comment on your new patchset? No problem, simply change the last line above for this:

git gerrit push --keep && git gerrit review

Without git-gerrit you would have to go first to Gerrit's web interface, find the change, and copy its fetch/checkout command line. Then you could paste it in your terminal and perform the amending like this:

git fetch https://gustavo@gerrit.example.net/project refs/changes/90/1190/2 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
# edit
git commit --amend
git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master
git checkout master

Oh, and if you want to comment on the new patchset, you have to go to Gerrit's web interface again.

Working on top of changes pending revision

You normally should strive to push changes independent of each other, because it's a pain to amend a change which others depend upon, because you have a cascading rebase problem. However, sometimes you want to start work on top of some changes already pushed to Gerrit but that haven't been submitted yet. Git-gerrit's cherry-pick command can help you here. Suppose you pushed two changes (e.g. 101 and 102) that you need to have integrated in order to start working on another change. You may create a new change and cherry-pick those two changes over it, creating a commit over which you can work. Like this:

git gerrit new topic master
git gerrit cherry-pick 101 102

Now you can start working on a future change and make another commit. At the end, the change/master/topic change-branch will have two commits. First the one created by the cherry-pick and then the one you created by yourself. You don't want to push it to Gerrit, though, while those changes are still being reviewed. When they're finally submitted, you can pull them to master, rebase your change-branch on top of master and push it to Gerrit. Like so:

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout change/master/topic
git rebase --onto master HEAD^
git gerrit push

This will discard the commit created by the cherry-pick.

SUB-COMMANDS

Each git-gerrit sub-command has its own set of options, described in its own section below.

The options below, however, are accepted by all of them:

--debug: This option makes git-gerrit print to STDERR every system command (usually a Git command) invoked and every Gerrit REST call made during the execution of its sub-commands. System commands are prefixed with CMD: and Gerrit REST calls with GERRIT:.
--help: Shows git-gerrit's manpage and quits.

Options names may be abbreviated to uniqueness, case does not matter, and a single dash is sufficient, even for long option names.

git gerrit new [--update] TOPIC [BRANCH]

The new sub-command creates a new change-branch off of BRANCH called change/BRANCH/TOPIC and checks it out for you to start making changes to your working area.

If no BRANCH is specified, the new change is based on the current branch, unless it's a change-branch itself, in which case the new change is based on the current change-branch's upstream branch.

The TOPIC name must contain at least one non-digit character so that it's clear that this is a new change-branch, not yet pushed to Gerrit. Also, the TOPIC name cannot contain slashes so that it's not confused with the branch name. It's usually best to use only letters and hyphens.

--update: This option makes git-gerrit update BRANCH before creating the change-branch by fetching from Gerrit and fast-forward-merging it with its remote branch. This way you guarantee to start a change on top of the newest state of your project, which is usually the right thing to do.

You will be warned if your working area is dirty, as this is sometimes a mistake.

git gerrit push OPTIONS*

The push sub-command should be invoked to push a change-branch to Gerrit's refs/for/ branch associated with its upstream branch. It should be invoked when you have the change-branch checked out in your working area.

When a new change-branch is pushed it creates a Gerrit change associated with the TOPIC in its name, as created by git gerrit new above.

After a successful push, git-gerrit checks out the upstream branch and deletes the original change-branch. The goal is to maintain a clean namespace, containing only the change-branches that are being worked on. When you push one to Gerrit, you don't need to keep it any longer locally. If you need to amend it later, you'll be able to get to it with the git gerrit checkout sub-command.

--keep

This option tells git-gerrit not to checkout the upstream and not to delete the change-branch, keeping your working area intact.

--force

By default, git-gerrit refuses to push a change-branch unless it contains a single commit dangling from its upstream and git status is clean (i.e., git status --untracked-files=no doesn't show any modification that hasn't been added to the index). If either one of these conditions don't hold it dies with an error message telling what's the problem. If you're sure you want to push anyway, you can use this option. If both conditions don't hold, you'll have to use the option twice.

It's best to avoid multiple commit pushes, because if you have to amend them later, having multiple commits may require rebasing dependent commits, which is a more complex operation and clutters the review history of the change.

If git status isn't clean, the the upstream isn't checked out.

--[no]rebase

Before a brand new change-branch (one ending in a TOPIC name) is pushed, its upstream branch is updated and it is rebased on top of its upstream. This is to make sure you're pushing a change based on the newest project state. If, by any reason, you don't want to have it rebased, use the --norebase option.

A change-branch that has been checked out (one ending in an ID) isn't rebased by default, because this would clutter the change review history in Gerrit. If you want it rebased nonetheless, use the --rebase option.

If git status isn't clean or if the commit being pushed is a merge commit it's not rebased.

--draft

This option makes git-gerrit push the change-branch to refs/drafts/UPSTREAM instead of to refs/for/UPSTREAM, creating a draft change in Gerrit.

--submit

This option tells Gerrit to auto-merge the change during push, which is a feature implemented in Gerrit 2.7.

--base BASE

This option selects a new merge base for Gerrit, which is a feature implemented in Gerrit 2.7.

--topic TOPIC

This option specifies another name for the topic that will be associated with the change. By default, the topic name is the last component of the current change-branch name, as specified by the git gerrit new sub-command.

--reviewer USERS

This option let's you invite a list of users to review your change.

USERS is a colon-separated list of usernames. You may also pass this option more than once, to invite more than a set of users.

--cc USERS

This option let's you notify a list of users about your change.

USERS is a colon-separated list of usernames. You may also pass this option more than once, to invite more than a set of users.

git gerrit query [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [[NAME=]QUERY]*

The query sub-command let's you list Gerrit changes meeting specific criteria. The matching changes are shown in tabular format, one change per line, listing their legacy ID, status, Code-Review vote, time of last update, project name, branch name, owner name, and subject line.

You may pass a list of queries. Each QUERY's results is presented separated from the other by a empty line and a header containing the query's name and expression inside brackets. For example:

$ git gerrit query 'Starred changes=is:starred' is:draft

[Starred changes=is:starred]
ID    STATUS CR UPDATED    PROJECT    BRANCH OWNER          SUBJECT
1186  MERGED +2 2013-09-18 helloworld master Gustavo Chaves [SB-1] Test amend 3

[QUERY=is:draft]
ID    STATUS CR UPDATED    PROJECT    BRANCH OWNER          SUBJECT
1187  NEW       2013-09-08 helloworld master Gustavo Chaves [SB-2] Make foo

Note that unnamed queries are prefixed by QUERY= instead of by their names.

Each QUERY can be specified by a Gerrit search expression.

--limit LIMIT: This option put a limit on the number of changes that are shown for each QUERY.
--verbose: This option makes the change topic be shown inside parenthesis to the right of the change branch name. This requires a separate REST call for each change, making the result appear more slowly.

git gerrit my [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [changes|drafts|watched|starred]

The my sub-command provides a set of pre-defined queries for the query sub-command. It's based on Gerrit's standard queries shown in its web interface under the My tab.

The changes argument is used by default if you don't specify any.

The options taken by the my sub-command are passed to the query sub-command.

git gerrit show CHANGE*

The show sub-command describes one or more CHANGEs in detail, showing much like what Gerrit shows in a change page of its web interface. For example:

$ git gerrit show 1186
 Change-Num: 1186
  Change-Id: I0bb976fe1890657d7a1c3ba403e0b58ac2b63cd7
    Subject: [SB-1] Test amend 3
      Owner: Gustavo Chaves
    Project: helloworld
     Branch: master
    Created: 2013-09-18 16:22:21
    Updated: 2013-09-18 19:45:56
     Status: MERGED

REVIEWER                         Code-Review
Gustavo Leite de Mendonça Chaves  0
Jenkins                          +1
Laurel Keys                      +2
------------------------------------------------------------

If no CHANGE is specified, the one associated with the current change-branch is described. If you're not in a change-branch, you'll get an error.

git gerrit fetch CHANGE*

The fetch sub-command fetches one or more CHANGEs from Gerrit and creates change-branches pointing to them.

A Gerrit change may contain a series of patch-sets. The fetch sub-command fetches the current (latest) one. If there is already a change-branch for the change, it will be updated to the change's current patch-set.

If you omit the CHANGE argument and you are in a change-branch, it will be updated with its current patch-set.

git gerrit checkout CHANGE*

The checkout sub-command fetches one or more CHANGEs from Gerrit, creates change-branches pointing to them, and checks out the last one. It's like invoking git gerrit fetch CHANGE and then git checkout CHANGE-BRANCH.

The shorter name co can also be used instead of checkout.

git gerrit upstream [--keep] [--delete]

The upstream sub-command should be invoked when you're in a change-branch. It checks out the upstream branch and deletes the change-branch if it's associated with an already pushed change, i.e., if its name ends in a legacy numeric id, not in a topic name.

The shorter name up can also be used instead of upstream.

--keep: This option prevents the change-branch deletion after the upstream checkout.
--delete: This options forces the change-branch deletion when it's a new change. However, the <--keep> option has precedence, meaning that if both options are present the change-branch isn't deleted.

git gerrit cherry-pick [--edit] [--no-commit] CHANGE*

The cherry-pick sub-command invokes the fetch sub-command to fetch a list of CHANGES from Gerrit and to create local change-branches for them. Then it applies all those changes to the current branch using the git cherry-pick command.

You may want to use this command to work on top of changes not submitted in Gerrit yet. You can cherry-pick them on top of a scratch branch and then continue to work on top of it while you wait for those changes to be reviewed.

The shorter name cp can also be used instead of cherry-pick.

--edit

If specified, this option is passed to git cherry-pick to let you edit the commit message.

--no-commit

If specified, this option is passed to git cherry-pick to avoid performing any commits.

"This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick each named commit to your working tree and the index, without making any commit. In addition, when this option is used, your index does not have to match the HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the beginning state of your index.

This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits' effect to your index in a row."

git gerrit rebase

The rebase sub-command simply rebases the current change-branch onto its upstream. It's a shortcut for git rebase UPSTREAM but arguably easier because you don't have to remember the upstream's name.

An error message is produced if it's invoked when HEAD isn't pointing to a change-branch.

git gerrit reviewer [--add USERS] [--confirm] [--delete USERS] CHANGE*

The reviewer sub-command allows you to manage the list of reviewers for one or more CHANGEs. You can omit the CHANGE argument if you're in a change-branch. In this case, you'll be managing the associated change reviewers.

--add USERS

This option let's you invite new users to review the changes. You can pass a comma-separated list of users and even use more than one --add option.

You can use Gerrit groupnames in addition to usernames, if you want to invite a group of users to review.

--confirm

Gerrit may reject the addition of groups with too many users because it recons you may be doing it by mistake. In this case, you'll receive an error message something like this:

"The group My Group has 15 members. Do you want to add them all as reviewers?"

If you really want to invite them all, try again with using the --confirm option.

--delete USERS

This option let's you remove reviewers from the changes. You can pass a comma-separated list of users and even use more than one --delete option.

You can use Gerrit groupnames in addition to usernames, if you want to remove a group of reviewers.

After adding and removing reviewers, git gerrit reviewers shows the remaining list of reviewers of the changes.

git gerrit review [--message TEXT] [--keep] [[LABEL]=VOTE]* CHANGE*

The review sub-command allows you to review (duh!) one or more CHANGEs by casting votes and adding messages to them. If you want to be precise and add a message, you should be reviewing a single change at a time, but sometimes it's convenient to be able to cast the same vote to a set of changes.

You can omit the CHANGE argument if you are in a change-branch, in which case you'll be reviewing the associated change. In this case, after a successful review, the change-branch will be deleted and its upstream checked out.

You can cast multiple votes using LABEL=VOTE arguments, where LABEL names a Gerrit label and VOTE is a negative, zero, or positive number. If you omit the LABEL name (but not the equal sign!) you'll be voting in the standard Code-Review label.

The Git editor (see the definition of GIT_EDITOR with the git help var command) is invoked for you to compose a message to be added to the review.

--message TEXT: This option adds a message to the review avoiding the Git editor invocation.
--keep: This option avoids the change-branch deletion after a successful review.

git gerrit submit [--no-wait-for-merge] [--keep] CHANGE*

The submit sub-command submits one or more approved CHANGEs, making Gerrit merge them into their remote upstream branches.

You can omit the CHANGE argument if you are in a change-branch, in which case you'll be submitting the associated change. In this case, after a successful submission, the change-branch will be deleted and its upstream checked out.

--no-wait-for-merge: By default git-gerrit will wait for the merge of the changes into their branches to complete in Gerrit. This option tells it not to wait and finish as soon as it receives Gerrit's submit acknowledgement.
--keep: This option avoids the change-branch deletion after a successful submission.

git gerrit abandon [--message TEXT] [--keep] CHANGE*

The abandon sub-command abandons one or more unmerged CHANGEs.

You can omit the CHANGE argument if you are in a change-branch, in which case you'll be abandoning the associated change. In this case, after a successful abandonment, the change-branch will be deleted and its upstream checked out.

The Git editor (see the definition of GIT_EDITOR with the git help var command) is invoked for you to compose a message to be added to the action.

--message TEXT: This option adds a message to the review avoiding the Git editor invocation.

--keep: This option avoids the change-branch deletion after a successful abandonment.

git gerrit restore [--message TEXT] CHANGE*

The restore sub-command restores one or more abandoned CHANGEs.

You can omit the CHANGE argument if you are in a change-branch, in which case you'll be restoring the associated change.

The Git editor (see the definition of GIT_EDITOR with the git help var command) is invoked for you to compose a message to be added to the action.

--message TEXT: This option adds a message to the review avoiding the Git editor invocation.

git gerrit revert [--message TEXT] CHANGE*

The revert sub-command reverts one or more already merged CHANGEs. Gerrit does so by creating, in the server, for each CHANGE, a new change with an inverted patch on top of the CHANGE remote upstream branch.

You can omit the CHANGE argument if you are in a change-branch, in which case you'll be reverting the associated change.

The Git editor (see the definition of GIT_EDITOR with the git help var command) is invoked for you to compose a message to be added to the action.

--message TEXT: This option adds a message to the review avoiding the Git editor invocation.

git gerrit web [OPTIONS --] CHANGE*

The web sub-command opens up in your browser Gerrit's web page for each CHANGE. It does it by invoking git web--browse for the list of URLs associated with each CHANGE. If no CHANGE is specified and you are in a change-branch, the page associated with the current CHANGE is openned.

Every option (but --debug) is passed as-is to the git web--browse command. If you pass any option you must mark the end of them with a '--' mark.

git gerrit config

The config sub-command lists Git's configuration variables in the git-gerrit section. The variables remote, baseurl, and project are always shown, even if they're inferred and not explicitly configured.

git gerrit version

The version sub-command shows the versions of git-gerrit, Git, and Gerrit that you're using.

INSTALLATION

Git-gerrit requires Perl 5.10 or newer and Git (any version should do, but 1.8 is better integrated). Check it like this:

perl -v
git --version

Git-gerrit is part of the App::GitGerrit distribution that you have to download from CPAN and install. There are a few ways to do it, depending on your environment. Here are a few tips:

If you cook your own Perl

If you build your own Perl, perhaps using perlbrew, you know the drill:

cpanm App::GitGerrit

Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

If you want to use the Perl that comes packaged in your Debian-based distribution, you can install some git-gerrit dependencies from packaged perl modules. These are the ones packaged with Ubuntu 12.04:

sudo apt-get install -y \
    liburi-encode-perl libhtml-tree-perl libjson-perl \
    libscope-guard-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libwww-perl cpanminus

The nifty cpanm installer should take care of the remaining dependencies and of installing git-gerrit for you like this:

sudo su -l -c "cpanm App::GitGerrit"

RedHat, CentOS, etc.

If you want to use the Perl that comes packaged in your RedHat-derived distribution, you can install some git-gerrit dependencies from packaged perl modules. These are the ones packaged with CentOS 6.4:

sudo yum install -y \
    perl-URI perl-HTML-Tree perl-JSON perl-Scope-Guard \
    perl-Test-Exception perl-Test-use-ok perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-YAML \
    perl-CPAN perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

The verbose cpan installer should take care of the remaining dependencies and of installing git-gerrit for you like this:

sudo su -l -c "cpan App::GitGerrit"

Windows

On Windows I suggest that you install Strawberry Perl. Then, open a command line tool and type this:

cpanm Data::Util App::GitGerrit

Note that on Windows you may have to invoke git-gerrit directly as git-gerrit and not through Git as git gerrit. This is because Git will probably use the old Perl that comes bundled with it, not Strawberry Perl. Your mileage may vary, though.

CONFIGURATION

Git-gerrit is configured through Git's standard configuration framework, which you can read about with the git help config command. All git-gerrit's configuration variables are in the git-gerrit section and can be created at the system, the global, or the local level. More specifically, git-gerrit groks its configuration from the output of the git config -l command.

Git and Gerrit access

In order to interact with Gerrit, git-gerrit has to know three things which it can usually infer from your default Git configuration, but that you may be explicit about using these Git configuration variables:

git-gerrit.remote

Whenever git-gerrit invokes a Git command to interact with Gerrit (e.g., git-push and git-fetch) it refers to Gerrit using a remote name. You probably already have a remote configured for Gerrit. If you don't, git-gerrit assumes the name origin by default.

You can check your Git remotes by issuing the command git remote -v. Note that the remote's URL must use the HTTP or (better yet) HTTPS protocol, not SSH.
git-gerrit.baseurl

This is the value of the gerrit.canonicalWebUrl variable configured in the etc/gerrit.config file at Gerrit's server. It's needed so that git-gerrit can interact with Gerrit's REST API.

If you don't specify it, git-gerrit assumes that it is equal to the remote's URL minus the path.

This usually can be configured globally, if you have a Gerrit server hosting several of your repositories.

It's a good idea to have your username in this URL to avoid being asked for it interactively.
git-gerrit.project

This is the name of the project associated with the Gerrit repository. It's needed so that git-gerrit can interact with Gerrit's REST API.

If you don't specify it, git-gerrit assumes that it is equal to the path of the remote's URL stripped of any path in git-gerrit.baseurl.

This is designed so that for most Gerrit instances git-gerrit should work out of the box, without any explicit configuration.

For example, if you're working on Android's kernel project, you may clone it with the suggested command:

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common

Then, git-gerrit will figure this out from the clone URL:

git-gerrit.remote = origin
git-gerrit.baseurl = https://android.googlesource.com
git-gerrit.project = kernel/common

If you're working on Eclipse's egit project, however, you must help git-gerrit figuring its configuration. This is the suggested command to clone it:

git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/egit/egit

Note that the base URL has a path part (/r). So, in this case you must configure it explicitly like this:

git config --global git-gerrit.baseurl https://git.eclipse.org/r

The remote and the project names can be inferred automatically.

Option defaults

Each git-gerrit sub-command accept a specific set of options and each option has a default value which is specified in the sub-commands documentation. You can specify a default set of options for each sub-command by defining a variable like this:

options.COMMAND OPTIONS

OPTIONS is the option list that should be passed as default for COMMAND. Specifically, it's a string which is split on spaces and the resulting list is unshifted on @ARGV, so that it's like you have passed these options on the command line first.

So, for example, if you'd like to always update the upstream branch when you create a new change-branch, you can pass the --update option to new by default by setting this:
```
git config git-gerrit.options.new --update
```
Options common to all commands can be specified to the pseudo-command 'all' like this:
```
git config git-gerrit.options.all --debug
```

Automatic reviewers

You can tell git-gerrit to invite automatically some users to review your pushed changes based on their upstream branch name and on the files affected.

git-gerrit.reviewers USERS [CONDITION]*

This variable specifies a list of Gerrit users to be automatically invited as reviewers in a git gerrit push command.

USERS is a colon-separated list of usernames.

CONDITIONs are space-separated boolean expressions. All CONDITIONs, if any, must be true for USERS to be invited. If no CONDITIONS are specified, USERS are invited.

A CONDITION may check either the name of the branch to which the change is being pushed or the names of the files affected by the change itself. The matching may be either exact or by regular expressions, as follows.
- branch=REFNAME
  
  Checks if REFNAME is exactly equal to the change's upstream name (without the refs/heads prefix).
- branch~REGEXP
  
  Checks if the upstream name matches REGEXP.
- path=PATH
  
  Checks if the path of any file affected by the commit being pushed, as shown by git diff --name-only upstream..HEAD is exactly equal to the complete path of one of those files.
- path~REGEXP
  
  Checks if the path of any affected file matches REGEXP.
You may specify the git-gerrit.reviewers variable multiple times. All users mentioned in all specifications that match their CONDITIONs are invited as reviewers to the current change being pushed.

COMMIT-MSG HOOK

Gerrit provides a commit-msg hook for Git that should be installed in your repositories. Its purpose is to insert a Change-Id footer in the commit messages so that Gerrit can discern independent commits from merely amended ones.

Git-gerrit takes care of installing this hook for you. When you invoke its new or push sub-commands, it checks to see if your repository already has a commit-msg hook installed. If not, it automatically downloads Gerrit's standard hook and installs it for you.

AUTHENTICATION

If you have Git 1.8.0 or later, git-gerrit uses Git's credential management system via its git-credential command to obtain credentials for connecting to Gerrit. You can take advantage of this by configuring Git's credential.helper variable to use a persistent credential storage and avoid being asked for the authentication credentials repeatedly. Please, read gitcredentials manpage to know how to configure this system. But here are a few tips anyway:

On Ubuntu Linux (tested on 13.04)

Use the git-credential-gnome-keyring program which provides a very nice integration with your desktop environment. You have to compile the helper first:

sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev
sudo make -C /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring
git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring

On other Unix-like systems

The git-credential-cache command which comes with Git is as a balanced compromise between convenience and security:
```
git config --global credential.helper cache --timeout 86400
```
On Windows systems

The best choice seems to be the third-party application git-credential-winstore, which you have to install first.
```
git config --global credential.helper winstore
```

If you're using a pre-1.8 Git that doesn't support the git-credential command, there are a few fall-backs.

First, git-gerrit tries to get credentials from the git-gerrit.baseurl configuration variable. The URL should be in a format like https://username:password@host/path. Security conscious people should avoid putting credentials there, but if you do git-gerrit will be satisfied.

Then, git-gerrit tries to load Perl's Net::Netrc module, if available, to get credentials from a netrc(5) file.

As a last resort, git-gerrit tries to load Perl's Term::Prompt module to prompt you for the credentials.

If none of this works, git-gerrit dies screaming.

BASH COMPLETION

If you use bash and have bash completion enabled for Git you may also enable it for git-gerrit by sourcing the etc/bash_completion.d/git-gerrit script that comes with App::GitGerrit distribution. You may do it in your ~/.bashrc file like this:

source $PERL_ROOT/etc/bash_completion.d/git-gerrit

Where PERL_ROOT is the root of your Perl installation.

AUTHOR

Gustavo L. de M. Chaves <gnustavo@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

To install App::GitGerrit, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm App::GitGerrit

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::GitGerrit

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

	Global
`s`	Focus search bar
`?`	Bring up this help dialog

	GitHub
`g` `p`	Go to pull requests
`g` `i`	go to github issues (only if github is preferred repository)

	POD
`g` `a`	Go to author
`g` `c`	Go to changes
`g` `i`	Go to issues
`g` `d`	Go to dist
`g` `r`	Go to repository/SCM
`g` `s`	Go to source
`g` `b`	Go to file browse

	Search terms
module: (e.g. module:Plugin)
distribution: (e.g. distribution:Dancer auth)
author: (e.g. author:SONGMU Redis)
version: (e.g. version:1.00)

NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

GLOSSARY

WORKFLOW

Creating a new change for review

Reviewing a change

Amending a change

Working on top of changes pending revision

SUB-COMMANDS

git gerrit new [--update] TOPIC [BRANCH]

git gerrit push OPTIONS*

git gerrit query [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [[NAME=]QUERY]*

git gerrit my [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [changes|drafts|watched|starred]

git gerrit show CHANGE*

git gerrit fetch CHANGE*

git gerrit checkout CHANGE*

git gerrit upstream [--keep] [--delete]

git gerrit cherry-pick [--edit] [--no-commit] CHANGE*

git gerrit rebase

git gerrit reviewer [--add USERS] [--confirm] [--delete USERS] CHANGE*

git gerrit review [--message TEXT] [--keep] [[LABEL]=VOTE]* CHANGE*

git gerrit submit [--no-wait-for-merge] [--keep] CHANGE*

git gerrit abandon [--message TEXT] [--keep] CHANGE*

git gerrit restore [--message TEXT] CHANGE*

git gerrit revert [--message TEXT] CHANGE*

git gerrit web [OPTIONS --] CHANGE*

git gerrit config

git gerrit version

INSTALLATION

If you cook your own Perl

Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

RedHat, CentOS, etc.

Windows

CONFIGURATION

Git and Gerrit access

Option defaults

Automatic reviewers

COMMIT-MSG HOOK

AUTHENTICATION

BASH COMPLETION

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Module Install Instructions