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Installation and Configuration

Installing git-review

Install with pip install git-review

For assistance installing pip on your os check out get-pip: http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html

For installation from source simply add git-review to your $PATH after installing the dependencies listed in requirements.txt

Setup

By default, git-review will look for a remote named 'gerrit' for working with Gerrit. If the remote exists, git-review will submit the current branch to HEAD:refs/for/master at that remote.

If the Gerrit remote does not exist, git-review looks for a file called .gitreview at the root of the repository with information about the gerrit remote. Assuming that file is present, git-review should be able to automatically configure your repository the first time it is run.

The name of the Gerrit remote is configurable; see the configuration section below.

.gitreview file format

Example .gitreview file (used to upload for git-review itself):

[gerrit]
host=review.openstack.org
port=29418
project=openstack-infra/git-review.git
defaultbranch=master

Required values: host, project

Optional values: port (default: 29418), defaultbranch (default: master), defaultremote (default: gerrit).

Notes

  • Username is not required because it is requested on first run
  • Unlike git config files, there cannot be any whitespace before the name of the variable.
  • Upon first run, git-review will create a remote for working with Gerrit, if it does not already exist. By default, the remote name is 'gerrit', but this can be overridden with the 'defaultremote' configuration option.
  • You can specify different values to be used as defaults in ~/.config/git-review/git-review.conf or /etc/git-review/git-review.conf.

Hooks

git-review has a custom hook mechanism to run a script before certain actions. This is done in the same spirit as the classic hooks in git.

There are two types of hooks, a global one which is stored in ~/.config/git-review/hooks/ and one local to the repository stored in .git/hooks/ with the other git hook scripts.

The script needs be executable before getting executed

The name of the script is $action-review where action can be :

  • pre - run at first before doing anything.
  • post - run at the end after the review was sent.
  • draft - run when in draft mode.

if the script returns with an exit status different than zero, git-review will exit with the a custom shell exit code 71.