Git Tutorial EclipseCon France 2014 - Gerrit Exercise

1. Configure for Gerrit
In this exercise you learn how you configure your local repository for the work with Gerrit.
This exercise is only necessary if you have not done it already in git exercise 1 “Installation
and Configuration”.
However you can run the Gerrit configuration wizard again if you want to e.g. change the
target branch.
Preparation
You have cloned the example repository.
Configure Gerrit
When you use Gerrit as a server for the central repository you need some configuration
settings of your local repository.
● Normally do not directly push to the branch on the remote repository but into the
review queue. Before you push to Gerrit you have to configure that once for your
local repository.
● You may need another URL. This is not the case in our training setup.
● You should push changes with a change-ID line in the commit message. You can
configure the local repository such that EGit will always create a Change-ID.
● You may want to fetch the review notes from Gerrit (More details in another
exercise).
Gerrit configuration wizard
Open the node “Remotes” of your repository in the Git Repositories View. Select Gerrit
Configuration… on “origin”

2. You can keep the default values in the Wizard page:
Resulting Repository Configuration
You can check the result in the Configuration of the local repository. Select Properties on the
repository node in the Git Repositories View.
Copyright © 2014 by C. Halstrick, E. Kempin, S. Lay, S. Zivkov, M. Sohn