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Please see the new Developer's Guide here: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
= Gerrit Workflow Quick Reference =
 
 
 
This section is intended as a quick reference of commands needed to
 
begin work in a new repository.  Please read this entire documentation
 
to understand the workflow in use, and then consult this section when
 
you need to start work on a new [[OpenStack]] project.
 
 
 
For a more complete description of the setup, see [[GerritJenkinsGithub]].
 
 
 
<<[[TableOfContents]]()>>
 
 
 
== Git Review Installation ==
 
 
 
We recommend using the "git-review" tool which is a git subcommand
 
that handles all the details of working with Gerrit, the code review
 
system used in [[OpenStack]] development.  Before you start work, make
 
sure you have git-review installed on your system.
 
 
 
On Ubuntu, or most other Unix-like systems, it is as simple as:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
pip install git-review
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
On Fedora 16 and later, git-review is included into the distribution,
 
so install it as any other package:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
yum install git-review
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
On Fedora 15 and earlier, or on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you have to
 
install pip (its package name is `python-pip`), then install git-review
 
using pip in a conventional way.
 
 
 
All of git-review's interactions with gerrit are sequences of normal git commands. If you want to know more about what it's doing, just add -v to the options and it will print out all of the commands it's running.
 
 
 
== Project Setup ==
 
 
 
Clone a project in the usual way, for example:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git clone git://github.com/openstack/nova.git
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
You may want to ask git-review to configure your project to know about
 
Gerrit at this point (though if you don't, it will do so the first
 
time you submit a change for review).  To do so (again, using Nova as
 
an example):
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
cd nova
 
git review -s
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
Git-review will check that you can log into gerrit with your ssh key.
 
It assumes that your gerrit/launchpad username is the same as the
 
current running user.  If that doesn't work, it will ask for your
 
gerrit/launchpad username.
 
 
 
If you get the error "We don't know where your gerrit is.", you will need to add a new git remote. The url should be in the error message. Copy that and create the new remote.
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git remote add gerrit ssh://<username>@review.openstack.org:29418/openstack/nova.git
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
== Normal Workflow ==
 
 
 
Once your local repository is set up as above, you must use the
 
following workflow.
 
 
 
Make sure you have the latest upstream changes:
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git remote update
 
git checkout master
 
git pull origin master
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
Create a [http://progit.org/book/ch3-4.html topic branch] to hold
 
your work and switch to it.  If you are working on a blueprint, name
 
your topic branch '''bp/BLUEPRINT''' where BLUEPRINT is the name of a
 
blueprint in launchpad (e.g., "bp/authentication").  Otherwise, give
 
it a meaningful name because it will show up as the topic for your
 
change in Gerrit.
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git checkout -b TOPIC-BRANCH
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
=== Committing Changes ===
 
 
 
Git commit messages should start with a short 50 character or less
 
summary in a single paragraph.  The following paragraph(s) should
 
explain the change in more detail.
 
 
 
If your changes addresses a blueprint or a bug, be sure to mention
 
them in the commit message using the following syntax:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
blueprint BLUEPRINT
 
bug #######
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
e.g.:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
Adds keystone support.
 
 
 
Implements blueprint authentication.  Fixes bug 123456.
 
 
 
(Long description of the change).
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
Make your changes, commit them, and submit them for review:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git commit -a
 
git review
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>#!wiki caution
 
'''Note'''
 
 
 
Do not check in changes on your master branch.  Doing so will cause
 
merge commits when you pull new upstream changes, and merge commits
 
will not be accepted by Gerrit.
 
 
 
Prior to checking in make sure that you run "./run_tests.sh -p"
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
=== Long-lived Topic Branches ===
 
 
 
If you are working on a larger project, you may be working on your
 
topic branch for a while.  In that case, you may want to check in your
 
changes frequently during development and you will need to rebase your
 
change to the current state of the master repository before submitting
 
it for code review.  In these situations you should prepare your
 
change carefully before submitting it.
 
 
 
If the master repository has changed since you started, you should
 
rebase your changes to the current state.  And if you have made many
 
small commits, you should squash them so that they do not show up in
 
the public repository.  Remember: each commit will become a change in
 
Gerrit, and need to be approved separately.  If you are making one
 
"change" to the project, squash your many "checkpoint" commits into
 
one commit for public consumption.  Here's how to do both of those:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git checkout master
 
git pull origin master
 
git checkout TOPIC-BRANCH
 
git rebase -i master
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
 
 
 
Use the editor to squash any commits that should not appear in the
 
public history.  If you want one change to be submitted to Gerrit, you
 
should only have one "pick" line at the end of this process.  After
 
completing this, you will be able to prepare your public commit
 
message(s) in your editor.  You will start with the commit message
 
from the commit that you picked, and it should have a Change-Id line
 
in the message.  Be sure to leave that Change-Id line in place when
 
editing.
 
 
 
Once the commit history in your branch looks correct, run '''git
 
review''' to submit your changes to Gerrit.
 
 
 
=== Updating a Change ===
 
 
 
If the code review process suggests additional changes, make them and
 
ammend the existing commit.  Leave the existing Change-Id: footer in
 
the commit message as-is and Gerrit will know that this is an updated
 
patch for an existing change:
 
 
 
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
git commit -a --amend
 
git review
 
</nowiki></pre>
 

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Please see the new Developer's Guide here: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html