finding out Gerrit version

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Tomasz Zarna

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Jul 3, 2013, 8:02:49 AM7/3/13
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Hi guys,

What's the most reliable way of finding out what's the version of a Gerrit server if the only thing I have is its URL?

For example:
Ideally, I would like to be able to recognize ancient versions like 2.1.x as well.

Cheers,
Tomek

Saša Živkov

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Jul 3, 2013, 8:09:38 AM7/3/13
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tomasz Zarna <tomasz...@tasktop.com> wrote:
Hi guys,

What's the most reliable way of finding out what's the version of a Gerrit server if the only thing I have is its URL?

The version is displayed in the bottom right corner in the UI.
 

For example:
Ideally, I would like to be able to recognize ancient versions like 2.1.x as well.

Cheers,
Tomek

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Saša Živkov

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Jul 3, 2013, 8:10:52 AM7/3/13
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Another way is to use:

ssh -p29418 you@gerrit-server gerrit version


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tomasz Zarna <tomasz...@tasktop.com> wrote:

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Tomasz Zarna

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Jul 3, 2013, 8:15:52 AM7/3/13
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Thanks for the lightning fast reply! I should have added I want to get that info programatically, as an anonymous user.

Cheers,

Shawn Pearce

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Jul 3, 2013, 11:35:40 AM7/3/13
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There isn't a good way to do this. We didn't export the server version
of HTTP until master (aka 2.8), and even then its embedded into the
host page data object in the / HTML response. Which is never fun to
parse from a program.

But I did find a backdoor into the version for you. Its still not
pretty but may be workable.

Parse the HTML of https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/tools/hooks/.
There is a "Powered by Gerrit Code Review" footer buried in an <p>
tag:

$ curl https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/tools/hooks/
<html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"><title>Gerrit Code Review -
/tools/hooks</title></head><body><h1>Gerrit Code Review -
/tools/hooks</h1><ul><li><a
href="commit-msg">commit-msg</a></li></ul><hr><p style="text-align:
right; font-style: italic">Powered by Gerrit Code Review
2.7-rc2-647-gba149ce</p></body></html>

This feature first appeared in 2.1.2-rc0 and has been available
unmodified since.

A change to add /config/server/version as a REST API that can be more
reliably polled and parsed would be welcome.

Edwin Kempin

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Jul 4, 2013, 10:06:23 AM7/4/13
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2013/7/3 Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com>

Tomasz Zarna

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Jul 4, 2013, 4:55:13 PM7/4/13
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