[gmx-developers] private branch problem

[Szilárd Páll]

Actually, since 2.1.4 gerrit has had private branches which AFAIR has
been mentioned by Roland:
http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=577

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Szilárd


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Berk Hess <hess at kth.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gerrit is not intended to work with private branches.
> It is set up for reviewing changes that go into official gromacs branches.
>
> You can set up a private git repository on the gromacs server instead.
> The policy is now that only branches scheduled for merge into a release
> are in the main repository, all others should be in private repositories.
> But this doesn't seem to be documented yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Berk
>
>
> On 07/10/2012 10:55 AM, Jochen Hub wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> one update:  In order to push to gerrit, I tried:
>>
>> $ git push private
>>
>> But his gives:
>>
>> [remote rejected] private_jochenhub/waxs -> refs/private/jochenhub/waxs
>> (can not create new references)
>> error: failed to push some refs to
>> 'ssh://jochenhub@gerrit.gromacs.org:29418/gromacs'
>>
>> Does anyone know what this means?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Jochen
>>
>> Am 7/10/12 10:33 AM, schrieb Jochen Hub:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I try to setup a private branch on gerrit that can be shared within the
>>> group. I followed the instruction in the Gerrit tutorial, added these
>>> lines to .git/config,
>>>
>>> [remote "private"]
>>>          fetch =
>>> +refs/private/jochenhub/*:refs/remotes/private_jochenhub/*
>>>          url = ssh://jochenhub@gerrit.gromacs.org:29418/gromacs
>>>          push = refs/heads/private_jochenhub/*:refs/private/jochenhub/*
>>>
>>> and did a
>>>
>>> $ git pull private release-4-5-patches
>>> (just "git pull private" as stated in the tutorial did not work)
>>> $ git checkout -b private_jochenhub/mybranch --track mybranch
>>>
>>> where mybranch was a local branch already present. Now, "git branch"
>>> lists (amount the other branches):
>>> mybranch
>>> private_jochenhub/mybranch
>>>
>>> But now I am a bit stuck. How do push changes to gerrit, so people from
>>> my group can access it? And where can I set the permissions, since on
>>> the Gerrit site under Admin/Project/Access I don't see my private
>>> branch. There is only a section "Reference: refs/private/${username}/*",
>>> which lists gmxcore under permissions.
>>>
>>> Any help is highly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Many tnanks,
>>> Jochen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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