Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by delsarto on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:17PM (#24924743)

The git-review [1] tool makes it trivial to interface with Gerrit (it's likely packaged for your distro, see [2]). I've found many people struggling with Gerrit don't know about it and it has made their life significantly easier. It handles all the magic of pushing to refs so that you never need to know about it. You drop a .gitreview in your project and then your work-flow is literally

    $ git checkout -b my-feature-branch
    $ emacs ... <edit edit edit>
    $ git add -i ...
    $ git commit
    $ git review
     read reviews, edit
    $ git add -i ...
    $ git commit --amend
    $ git review # push new change revisions

You can download an upstream change to use locally with "git review -d 123456"

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/git-review/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review

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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by bawolff on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:10PM (#24926005)

Honestly, i find git-review much more annoying than just memorizing `git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master` (if that's too much easy to create a normal alias) and the gerrit web interface gives you the command to download a specific changeset. Git-review tends to break in unclear ways and sometimes do things other than what i expect it to.

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