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This was added when the index system was first built in order to support testing out reindex without overwriting an existing index. I don't think anybody is using it at present. Since reindex is only ever run while the server is shut down, if an admin really needs to point the reindexer at a different location, they can edit the configured location in gerrit.config for index implementations that are configured in this way. Alternatively, for something like Lucene where the index just goes to a directory, they can move the old directory out of the way to keep it as a backup. We don't need yet another way of accomplishing this goal that also clutters up the code. Change-Id: Id5af3318d8a5e537be67e5953a6d43c180ab3095
Gerrit Code Review
Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects.
Objective
Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.
Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.
Documentation
For information about how to install and use Gerrit, refer to the documentation.
Source
Our canonical Git repository is located on googlesource.com. There is a mirror of the repository on Github.
Reporting bugs
Please report bugs on the issue tracker.
Contribute
Gerrit is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!
Please read the contribution guidelines.
Note that we do not accept Pull Requests via the Github mirror.
Getting in contact
The IRC channel on freenode is #gerrit. An archive is available at: echelog.com.
The Developer Mailing list is repo-discuss on Google Groups.
License
Gerrit is provided under the Apache License 2.0.
Build
Install Buck and run the following:
git clone --recursive https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
cd gerrit && buck build release
Install binary packages (Deb/Rpm)
The instruction how to configure GerritForge/BinTray repositories is here
On Debian/Ubuntu run:
apt-get update & apt-get install gerrit=<version>-<release>
NOTE: release is a counter that starts with 1 and indicates the number of packages that have been released with the same version of the software.
On CentOS/RedHat run:
yum clean all && yum install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]
NOTE: release is optional. Last released package of the version is installed if the release number is omitted.
Events
- March 14-18 2016: Gerrit Hackathon, Berlin (free seats are still available).