[Labs-l] git-review: guinea pigs wanted

Diederik van Liere dvanliere at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 21:05:51 UTC 2012


I am in.
Diederik
On 2012-01-23, at 1:04 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:

> From a presentation by the OpenStack people at linux.conf.au, I
> learned about a nifty tool called git-review. The short explanation
> for what git-review does is "figure out whatever the magic git
> incantation is that I need to make Gerrit happy this time, and run it
> for me". A longer explanation is posted at
> https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git-review . The setup
> instructions are a bit involved currently because the Wikimedia fork
> has features that haven't been upstreamed yet but that are necessary
> to make git-review work with our puppet repository, and because I
> haven't gotten around to making a proper Debian package for git-review
> just yet.
> 
> If this works for people, I want to make this the default way of doing
> things, and the only documented and supported way. We could throw out
> all the instructions regarding manual setup of remotes, aliases and
> commit-msg hooks (git-review handles all of these things) and tell
> people to just run "git review" and it'll just do what you want.
> 
> Before we make this The New Way of Doing Everything, though, I would
> like some people to test it and tell me how well it works for them.
> So, if you're interested in trying this out, please do, and I'll help
> you with any issues you might run into.
> 
> Roan
> 
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