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h1. Contributing using Gerrit
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At [[OpenBSC:OsmoDevCon2016]] we discussed problems with our past contribution / patch submission process using mails on the mailing list as well as patchwork.  The result is that we want to give Gerrit a try for some time and see if it helps us to have a better process
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Gerrit is a review tool that integrates nicely with git and ssh. You can find general information about Gerrit at https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
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The advantages of Gerrit are:
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* patch submission status is automatically tracked, also with several revisions for a patch set.
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* patches are build-tested (and possibly even further tested) by jenkins before they are applied
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* developers + maintainers can formally vote on a patch (developer: -1/0/+1, maintainer: -2/0/+2)
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* once a patch has +2 score, it can be (automatically) merged into master
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* patch sumissions not via git send-email but direcly from git
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h2. Osmocom Subprojects using Gerrit
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The following projects use Gerrit to contribute changes:
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* libosmocore.git
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* libosmo-abis.git
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* libosmo-netif.git
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* libosmo-sccp.git
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* libsmpp34.git
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* openbsc.git
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* osmo-bts.git
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* osmo-iuh.git
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* osmo-pcu.git
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* cellmgr-ng.git
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* osmo-sip-connector.git
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h2. Configuring Gerrit/Account
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You will need to sign-up at https://gerrit.osmocom.org/login/. If you have an Osmocom Redmine account you can use https://osmocom.org/openid as OpenID provider.
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* first sign in on https://osmocom.org. Do this before logging in on gerrit (the redmine login process loses the gerrit login data and you'd have to do the same thing twice if not logged in on osmocom.org already).
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* go to https://gerrit.osmocom.org and click the "Sign in" link.
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* click the "Sign in with Osmocom":https://gerrit.osmocom.org/login/%23%2Fq%2Fstatus%3Aopen?id=https://osmocom.org/openid link (can be bookmarked). -- This is the same as entering https://osmocom.org/openid as OpenID provider and hitting the "Sign in" button.
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*careful:* enter 'https' to ensure that your openid credentials are passed on encryptedly.
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*pitfall:* if you're logged in on 'projects.osmocom.org' (including the 'projects.' part), you should also use the openid provider: https://projects.osmocom.org/openid; the 'projects.' part may be omitted, what's important is that redmine login and OpenID URLs match. Also, decide for one of those URLs once, because when picking a different OpenID URL next time, you will create a new user instead of logging in as yourself.
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*note:* gerrit will create a distinct user for each openid URL you pass. If you logged in successfully but your user seems to have lost permissions, you may have created an evil twin user: contact us on the mailing list so we can fix it in the user database.
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If you have no Osmocom redmine account, you can simply create one online at the "Register" link in the upper right corner.
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Even without an existing or new redmine account, you should also be able to use any other OpenID provider to authenticate against gerrit (untested).
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After the initial sign-up you will need to:
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* Pick a username (can not be changed)
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* Add your public ssh key(s)
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* Add email addresses you intend to use as author/comitter
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If you would like to push private branches to the Gerrit repository, you also need to be added to the "known users" group.
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Please send a short requesting email to openbsc@lists.osmocom.org.
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h2. Setting up Gerrit for commits and pushing
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*Note:* it is easiest to work with gerrit when gerrit is the only remote in your git clone.
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When you clone from git.osmocom.org and add the gerrit remote, git will have two remotes,
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so when you first checkout a branch you have to supply the remote explicitly (cumbersome).
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The gerrit repositories and git.osmocom.org are constantly synced, so it is sufficient
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to clone from gerrit only.
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h3. Simplest: new clone
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* Create a new clone from gerrit
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* Fetch the commit hook that adds Change-Id to each commit to uniquely identify a commit
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<pre>
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git clone ssh://$USERNAME@gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/$PROJECT.git
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scp -P 29418 $USERNAME@gerrit.osmocom.org:hooks/commit-msg $PROJECT/.git/hooks/
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h3. SSH config
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In '~/.ssh/config', add these lines:
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Host go
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Hostname gerrit.osmocom.org
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Port 29418
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User $USERNAME
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('go' means gerrit.osmocom, replace with your favorite shortcut name,
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replace '$USERNAME' with your user name as used on the gerrit website)
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Then you can shorten above commands to
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git clone ssh://go/$PROJECT.git
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cd $PROJECT
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scp go:hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/
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h3. Commit hook: Always put Change-Id at the bottom of the log message
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The commit-msg hook places a Change-Id tag in the footer, often above other tags like 'Depends:' or 'Related:'. Since the Change-Id is an implementation detail for Gerrit, I personally prefer it always placed right at the bottom. This simple edit changes the commit-msg hook to add Change-Id at the bottom unconditionally:
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The goal is to disable the condition in line 163 with an 'if (0...':
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Then the Change-Id will be placed by line 170 instead.
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h3. Committer must match
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Your email address on gerrit and the email address git places in your
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commits must match, or you will get rejected with an error message like
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"invalid commiter". You can add email addresses on the gerrit web UI.
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h3. Add gerrit to an existing clone
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* Add the remote to be able to fetch and push to gerrit
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* Fetch the commit hook that adds Change-Id to each commit to uniquely identify a commit
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git remote add gerrit ssh://$USERNAME@gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/$PROJECT.git
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h2. Push for review
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Checkout the revision or branch that you want to submit for review, then
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git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master
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</pre>
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You can optionally add a topic name with
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git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master/my_topic
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h2. Merge patch to master
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A patch can be merged when it has CR+2 and V+1 votes, and if, in case of a
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series of patches pushed from a branch, when its ancestor patches can also be
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to merge the patch to master. Sometimes it is left up to the owner of the patch
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to decide when to hit "Submit" (who needs to be in the "Known Users" group).
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The V+1 vote means "build is verified" and is usually given by our jenkins
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gerrit builds: https://jenkins.osmocom.org/jenkins/view/Jenkins-Gerrit/
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The CR+2 vote means "code reviewed and ready for merge to master branch".
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Accounts with the "Reviewer" role for a given project are allowed to give CR+2
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votes. Others are allowed to give CR+1 (and CR-1). CR votes _don't_ add up.
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_Fixed by gerrit 2.12.6, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=4158:_
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-Sometimes hitting the "Submit" button results in an error message saying
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"Change is New", which is a bug related to a private branch with the same
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patches being present. Can be fixed e.g. by an admin's manual push to master.-
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h2. Push a "private" user branch
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*Note* that you must be a member of the "known users" group, see above.
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If your local branch name is of the form 'your_name/topic', you can just
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git push
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and git will tell you what to do.
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To push from a "nonstandard" local branch name, do
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git push gerrit HEAD:refs/heads/user/$USERNAME/branch_name
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h2. List changesets in gerrit
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git ls-remote gerrit changes/*
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h1. Tips and Tricks
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h2. Throw-away branch
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If you need to adjust and re-submit patches, it may be handy to create a throw-away branch ("R D" in magit-gerrit in emacs for example),
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make your changes/amendments and then send patch(es) back to gerrit while removing temporary branch automatically with "git review -f".
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h2. Fetch a patch from gerrit
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This script (I called it @P@) makes fetching a patch set from gerrit a breeze:
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#!/bin/sh
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# fetch gerrit patch into new branch named like the patch number.
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# Usage: go to a git clone and pass a patch number:
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h2. Re-submit a Branch with Amended Commits
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On a feature branch, one typically has numerous commits that depend on their preceding commits.
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Often, some of the branch commits need to be amended for fixes. You can re-submit changes to
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patches on your branch by pushing in the same way that you first submitted the branch.
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Note: if you modify the Change-Ids in the commit logs, your push would open entirely new
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review entries and you would have to abandon your previous submission. Comments on the first
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submission are "lost" and you cannot diff between patch sets.
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(There used to be a bug in gerrit that required editing the first patch to be able to
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re-submit a branch, but that's fixed.)
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h2. Re-submit Previously Abandoned Changes
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h2. Submit a "private" branch for master
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If you've pushed a branch to refs/heads/* somewhere, gerrit will already know the Change-Ids on it.
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Make sure the option [[Gerrit#Private-Branches-Create-a-new-change-for-every-commit|Create a new change for every commit not in the target branch]] is _TRUE_ for your project,
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or gerrit will refuse to accept your submission.
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h2. 502 Bad Gateway
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When getting a "Bad Gateway" error message upon trying to login on gerrit, you probably just need to restart your web browser. The reason is not clear.
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h1. Reasons for Particular Configuration
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h2. Rebase if necessary
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There are different merge strategies that Gerrit performs to accept patches.
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Each project can be configured to a specific merge strategy, but unfortunately you can't
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decide on a strategy per patch submission.
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history with numerous merge commits that are usually not at all necessary.
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linear history. However, this will cause merge failures as soon as one patch depends on
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So we prefer the "Rebase if Necessary" strategy, which always tries to apply your patches to
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the current master HEAD, in sequence with the previous patches on the same branch.
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However, some problems still remain, including some bugs in "Rebase if Necessary".
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There's a problem with "Rebase if Necessary": If your branch sits at master's HEAD, Gerrit
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This is a bug in Gerrit, which holger has fixed manually in our Gerrit installation:
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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=4158
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h2. Private Branches: Create a new change for every commit...
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Say you have an extensive feature in development, and you want to keep it on the
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So, of course, you have regularly pushed to refs/heads/yoyodyne/feature.
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Change-Id tags in all commit log messages.
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Gerrit by default enforces that a Change-Id must be unique across all branches,
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h2. Allow content merges
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By setting _Allow content merges_ to _TRUE_ in the git project config, we tell Gerrit to
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perform text merges of the submitted patches and only complain about actual content
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conflicts, in the usual software engineering sense.
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h1. Admin
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h2. Adding users to groups
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This seems to be the MySQL dialect.
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ssh go "gerrit gsql -c \"select * from account_external_ids where email_address like '%foo%'\""
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ssh go "gerrit gsql -c \"select * from account_external_ids where email_address like '%foo%'\""
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