Hi everyone,
I've just come across (and enabled) a feature in Gerrit that I think
many will find useful. I'm calling them "personal sandboxes." The
basic premise is that each user can have a personal branch space
that they have push rights to that don't require admin intervention.
The branches are named in the format "sandbox/$username/*" so I
could make a sandbox called "sandbox/demon/weekend-hacking"
and push that to gerrit without requiring review or anyone to make
the branch first. Quick example:
$ cd mediawiki/core
$ git checkout -b sandbox/demon/foo-bar
[ hack away ]
$ git push --set-upstream origin sandbox/demon/foo-bar
(The --set-upstream is only necessary the first time you push)
This isn't designed to replace long-lived branches where you are
collaborating with others, but to simply give you a space where you
can push some work when you want to stash it (and it should be
viewable by Gitweb, if you want others to see it).
Happy hacking!
-Chad