Add docs on renaming a project in gerrit.

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James E. Blair
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Renaming a Project
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Renaming a project is not automated and is disruptive to developers,
so it should be avoided. Allow for an hour of downtime for the
project in question, and about 10 minutes of downtime for all of
Gerrit. All Gerrit changes, merged and open, will carry over, so
in-progress changes do not need to be merged before the move.
To rename a project:
#. Make it inacessible by editing the Access pane. Add a "read" ACL
for "Administrators", and mark it "exclusive". Be sure to save
changes.
#. Update the database::
update account_project_watches
set project_name = "openstack/OLD"
where project_name = "openstack/NEW";
update changes
set dest_project_name = "openstack/OLD"
where dest_project_name = "openstack/NEW";
#. Wait for Jenkins to be idle (or take it offline)
#. Stop Gerrit and move the Git repository::
/etc/init.d/gerrit stop
cd /home/gerrit2/review_site/git/openstack/
mv OLD.git/ NEW.git
/etc/init.d/gerrit start
#. (Bring Jenkins online if need be)
#. Rename the project in GitHub
#. Update Jenkins jobs te reference the new name. Rename the jobs
themselves as appropriate
#. Remove the read access ACL you set in the first step from project
#. Submit a change that updates .gitreview with the new location of the
project
Developers will either need to re-clone a new copy of the repository,
or manually update their remotes.