Git Tutorial EclipseCon France 2014 - Gerrit Exercise

1. Push a Change to Gerrit
In this exercise you will learn how to push a change to the Gerrit code review system.
Preparation
● Make sure you configured the push to Gerrit in your local Git repository
● Create a new local branch starting from the origin/master and create one new commit
in that branch.
● Make sure the Compute Change-Id for Gerrit Code Review button in the commit
dialog is selected when you commit the changes. This will create the “Change-Id: …”
footer in the commit message which is necessary for the Gerrit Code Review.
Pushing to Gerrit
Right click the Git repository node in the Git Repositories view and select Push to Upstream:

2. After the change is pushed a confirmation dialog is shown:
The confirmation dialog shows the URL of the change in Gerrit. We also see that the numerical
ID of the change is 1 in this case.
Check your Change in Gerrit
● copy the URL of the change from the confirmation dialog to the clipboard and open it in a
web browser
● alternatively open the Gerrit UI in a web browser and find your change in the list of open
changes. Usually, it is the one on the top as the entries are sorted by modification time
Finally, in your web browser you should see your change. It will look like:

3. Get familiar with the information Gerrit displays on the change page. The change contains one
patch set on its creation. A patch set corresponds to one Git commit.
Click on a file to see the Side-by-Side diff.
Compare the local commit SHA1 and the SHA1 of the Patch Set 1. Are they the same?
Copyright © 2014 by C. Halstrick, E. Kempin, S. Lay, S. Zivkov