gerrit Tools

A few scripts to make code review via Gerrit Code Review easier for developers. They are improved and maintained to fit the needs of the TYPO3 review workflow.

gerrit-cherry-pick

This is a script that allows you to cherry-pick a particular patch from Gerrit, so that it can be reviewed easily. It comes with Gerrit, but is included here because Gerrit 2.1.1.1 does not yet contain support for the --latest option.

gerrit-setup

Gerrit-setup will attempt to convert a repository cloned from github to use Gerrit as the origin instead.

git-review

Git-review is a wrapper script to make creating, reviewing, and approving Gerrit changes very simple. In the simplest case, you can have an entire Git workflow that looks like this for people creating a new changeset:

git review push

And looks like this for people reviewing someone else's changeset:

git review 123
rake && git review approve
git review reset

You may find it helpful to alias gr to git review.

Installation

You can either install it locally for your user only or you can install it globally for all users.

First cd into the downloaded directoy into the subdir bin:

cd gerrit-tools/bin/

Local install

If the directory ~/bin does not exist, create it in your in your home path:

if [[ ! -d $HOME/bin ]]; then mkdir $HOME/bin; fi

Now check if your $PATH variable already contains that path or add it do ~/.bashrc:

if [[ ! $PATH =~ $HOME/bin ]]; then echo -e "\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$HOME/bin" >> $HOME/.bashrc; source $HOME/.bashrc; fi

Finally symlink all files (you need to be in gerrit-tools/bin/) and make them executable:

for i in *; do ln -s `pwd`/$i $HOME/bin/$i; chmod +x $i; done

Check if all worked by running:

cd ; git review

It will print "git-review can only be run from a git repository." in red (unless your home directory is already a git repository ;) )

Global install

First become root:

sudo su

Then you can either create the symlinks like above (make sure to be in gerrit-tools bin) or you can cp the files:

for i in *; do ln -s `pwd`/$i /bin/$i; chmod +x $i; done

for i in *; do cp -u $i /bin/; chmod +x /bin/$i; done

Now quit root:

exit

Finally check if it worked by running:

cd ; git review