gerrit-intellij-plugin

Introduction

Unofficial IntelliJ Platform plugin for the Gerrit Code Review tool. It supports any product based on the IntelliJ platform:

IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA CE
RubyMine
WebStorm
PhpStorm
PyCharm
PyCharm CE
AppCode
Android Studio
0xDBE
CLion
Rider

Only Gerrit 2.6 or newer is supported (missing / incomplete REST API in older versions).

You can install this plugin from the [IntelliJ Plugin Manager]. If you install this plugin directly in your IDE's plugin manager, you will get notified when a new release is available. [IntelliJ Plugin Manager]: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7272

Pre-Releases

If you want to get new releases earlier, you can subscribe to the release-candidate plugin channel:

Copy the following URL: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugins/rc/7272
Use the copied URL as the Custom Plugin Repository
Reload the list of plugins
Search for the 'Gerrit' plugin in the plugin manager and install it

Your Support

If you like this plugin, you can support it:

Spread it: Tell your friends who are using IntelliJ and Gerrit about this plugin (or even encourage them to use these fantastic products!)
Vote for it: Write your review and vote for it at the [IntelliJ plugin repository].
Star it: [Star it at GitHub]. GitHub account required.
Improve it: Report bugs or feature requests. Or even fix / implement them by yourself - everything is open source!
Donate: You can find donation-possibilities at the bottom of this file. [IntelliJ plugin repository]: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7272 [Star it at GitHub]: https://github.com/uwolfer/gerrit-intellij-plugin

Troubleshooting

List of changes is empty

By default, you will only see changes to Git repositories that are configured in the current project of your IntelliJ IDE.

Make sure that Git repositories are configured in the 'Version Control' settings.
Make sure that the Git repository remote url (at least one of them) is on the same host as configured in Gerrit plugin settings. Or:
Add a remote whose name equals the Gerrit project name with Gerrit as remote url.

Error-message when clicking a change: "VcsException: fatal: bad object"

In Gerrit 2.8, fetch information was pulled out of default functionality into a plugin. You need to install the plugin download-commands. When you run the Gerrit update procedure, it asks you to install this plugin (but it isn't selected by default). Just run the update script again if you have not installed it yet.

When installing Gerrit 2.8 (or newer) from scratch (rather than using the update script) the following command will install the download-commands plugin (for a new installation or an existing Gerrit instance):

$ java -jar gerrit.war init -d {gerrit-instance} --install-plugin=download-commands

Error-message when loading changes: "SSLException: Received fatal alert: bad_record_mac"

There are two workarounds for this issue:

allow TLSv1 (instead of SSLv3 only) connections in your reverse-proxy in front of Gerrit. SSLv3 is considered insecure, therefore TLS should be the default in any case.
use a recent Java setup (> 1.6)

Checking out from VCS with Gerrit plugin does not work

Checking out directly with the Gerrit plugin does not work for some authentication methods. If you get an authentication error or checking out does not properly finish, you can try to:

use SSH clone URL in checkout dialog (you can find the SSH URL in the Gerrit Web UI project settings)
or: check out with the default Git plugin and set up the Gerrit plugin manually afterwards

You can find background information about this issue in a [Gerrit mailing list topic]. [Gerrit mailing list topic]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/UnQd3HsL820

Loading file-diff-list is slow

Diff viewing is based on Git operations (i.e. it fetches the commit from the Gerrit remote). When loading the file list takes a lot of time, you can run a local "[git gc]" and ask your Gerrit administrator to do run a "[gerrit gc]". [git gc]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html [gerrit gc]: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/cmd-gc.html

Architecture

IntelliJ Integration

The plugin is integrated into the IntelliJ IDE with a [tool window]. [tool window]: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IntelliJ+IDEA+Tool+Windows See package com.urswolfer.intellij.plugin.gerrit.ui.

REST API

Most of the communication between the plugin and a Gerrit instance is based on the [Gerrit REST API]. The REST specific part is available as [standalone implementation]. [Gerrit REST API]: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/rest-api.html [standalone implementation]: https://github.com/uwolfer/gerrit-rest-java-client See package com.urswolfer.intellij.plugin.gerrit.rest.

Git

Some actions like comparing and listing files are based on Git operations. [IntelliJ Git4Idea] is used for these operations. [IntelliJ Git4Idea]:http://git.jetbrains.org/?p=idea/community.git;a=tree;f=plugins/git4idea See package com.urswolfer.intellij.plugin.gerrit.git.

Build (and develop!) the Plugin

It's very easy to set it up as an IntelliJ project.

Activate plugins Gradle, Plugin DevKit and UI Designer in IntelliJ.
git clone https://github.com/uwolfer/gerrit-intellij-plugin (probably switch to intellij{version} branch, but keep in mind that pull-requests should be against the default branch ("intellij13" and older are not supported anymore))
Open checked out project in IntelliJ ("File" -> "New" -> "Project from Existing Sources" -> select file build.gradle in gerrit-intellij-plugin folder and press "OK")
Create a new run configuration: "Gradle" -> "Gradle project": select the only project -> "Tasks": "runIdea"
Press "Debug" button. IntelliJ should start with a clean workspace (development sandbox). You need to checkout a project to see changes (it shows only changes for Git repositories that are set up in current workspace by default).

Once build.gradle gets updated, you need to "Refresh all Gradle projects" in the Gradle panel.

Credits

IntelliJ Github plugin (some code of this plugin is based on its code)

Donations

If you like this work, you can support it with [this donation link]. If you don't like Paypal (Paypal takes 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction fee from your donation), please contact me. Please only use the link from github.com/uwolfer/gerrit-intellij-plugin to verify that it is correct. [this donation link]: https://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8F2GZVBCVEDUQ

Copyright and license

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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