Gerrit - Setting Up Git-Review

Git-review can be used to send git branches to Gerrit for reviewing. You can set up gitreview using the following command in the project directory.

$ git review -s

Git-review can be used as the command pne tool for configuring Git clone, submitting the branches to Gerrit, fetching the existing files, etc. Git-review looks for the remote named gerrit for working with Gerrit by default.

If git-review finds the Gerrit remote, then it will submit the branch to HEAD:refs/for/master at the remote location and if there is no Gerrit remote access, then git-review looks for the .gitreview file at the root of the repository along with the gerrit remote information.

Git-review processes the following internally −

It will check whether the remote repository works or not for submitting the branches.

If there is no Gerrit remote access, then it will ask for the username and try to access the repository again.

It will create a remote access called gerrit that points to Gerrit.

It will install the commit-msg hook.