gerritr

Wrapping some Git for Gerrit

A command line app with opinionated flows for a subset of Gerrit functionalities. Intended to ease people familiar with GitHub et al., to work with Gerrit. And hopefully help them remember to add reviewers to a change.

Inspired from:

• Lack of non-tedious way in git-review to add reviewers
• Lack of Python tooling for cross compilation
• The ease of Golang tooling for cross compilation

Installation

Download the binary and add to $PATH.

Usage

gerritr is supposed to be used in the same context as git - a command line application from the repository root directory. gerritr has two subcommands: push and patch.

Common flags

• --branch or -b: Target branch name. Required if the target branch is not main or master.
• --message or -m: Commit message.
• --state or -s: Change state. Ignored if the value is not one of:
  • private
  • remove-private
  • wip
  • ready

push

Flags

• --reviewers or -r: Space separated list of reviewer email IDs or aliases

Push the latest commit to the target branch, thereby creating a new change in Gerrit.

If --message flag is present, a new commit is created initally - with the staged changes and the provided message - and then pushed.

Adding reviewers without verbosely typing in everyone's email ID, is possible in two ways:

config.yml or global config

• Go to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which is generally:
  • ~/.config for Linux
  • ~/Library/Application Support for macOS
  • %LOCALAPPDATA% for Windows
• Create a gerritr directory there.
• Add a config.yml in gerritr directory with content similar to the sample below:

   alias:
     backend:
   	- b1@org.com
   	- b2@org.com
     frontend:
   	- f1@org.com
   	- f2@org.com
     someone:
       - someone.with.long.email.id@somewhere.com
     ...

The configured aliases can then be used as values to --reviewers. Unresolvable values for --reviewers are ignored.

REVIEWERS or local config

Add a plaintext REVIEWERS file to the repository root directory, with a list of email IDs of people who should always be added as reviewers to every change pushed from this repository:

r1@org.com
r2@org.com
...

Both the ways to add reviewers are independent:

• With just the above global configuration in place, gerritr push -r backend x1@org.com will add x1@org.com, b1@org.com and b2@org.com as reviewers
• With just the above local configuration in place, gerritr push will add r1@org.com and r2@org.com as reviewers
• With both of the above sample configurations in place, gerritr push -r x1@org.com frontend will add x1@org.com, f1@org.com, f2@org.com, r1@org.com and r2@org.com as reviewers

patch

Amend the latest commit with the staged changes and push it to the target branch, thereby adding a patchset to an already existing change in Gerrit.

If --message flag is not specified, the commit message will be preserved. No change to the added reviewers.