How do you enable/use refs/meta/config?

[Joshua J. Kugler]

I'm reading over this:

https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8.4/config-project-config.html

(mind the wrap)

It says I should be able to find project.config (among others) in
refs/meta/config when I check out a project (I am an admin, so have read on
all areas of the project).

However, when I clone a project, I do not even have a .git/refs/meta
directory. What do I have to do to enable this namespace? I'd very much like
to programtically edit permissions, the instructions on the above web page are
lacking when it comes to how to actually extract that information.

Thanks!

j

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[Matthias Sohn]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Joshua J. Kugler <jos...@azariah.com> wrote:

I'm reading over this:

https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8.4/config-project-config.html

(mind the wrap)

It says I should be able to find project.config (among others) in
refs/meta/config when I check out a project (I am an admin, so have read on
all areas of the project).

However, when I clone a project, I do not even have a .git/refs/meta
directory.  What do I have to do to enable this namespace? I'd very much like
to programtically edit permissions, the instructions on the above web page are
lacking when it comes to how to actually extract that information.

refs/meta/config is a branch which isn't under refs/heads hence git doesn't fetch

it by default. Do something like

$ git init cfg ; cd cfg

$ git remote add origin ssh://developer@localhost:29418/All-Projects

$ git pull origin refs/meta/config

$ vi project.config

$ git commit -a -m 'Updated permissions'

$ git push origin HEAD:refs/meta/config

see slide 51 in [1].

[1] http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/files/Deploying%20Gerrit%20Code%20Review.pdf

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[Alex Blewitt]

On 12 Apr 2014, at 00:05, Joshua J. Kugler <jos...@azariah.com> wrote:

> I'm reading over this:
>
> https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8.4/config-project-config.html
>
> (mind the wrap)
>
> It says I should be able to find project.config (among others) in
> refs/meta/config when I check out a project (I am an admin, so have read on
> all areas of the project).
>
> However, when I clone a project, I do not even have a .git/refs/meta
> directory. What do I have to do to enable this namespace? I'd very much like
> to programtically edit permissions, the instructions on the above web page are
> lacking when it comes to how to actually extract that information.

When you clone a repository, by default it only gets the branches and tags, not necessarily every reference. So you’ll need to fetch these additional refs from the repository.

To do this in your case, you can do git fetch orgin +refs/meta/config:refs/meta/config, from which you can check it out.

Alex

[Joshua J. Kugler]

Thank you to Matthais and Alex (and jrnieder on #gerrit) I got it figured out
and working.

Thank you very much!

j

[Welch, Ronald P (US SSA)]

Is there a (reasonably easy) way to change the entries in the
download menu on the change screen?

For example, I would like to add a couple switches to the end
cherry-pick command.

A plugin perhaps?

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[Jan Kundrát]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 19:08:30 CEST, Welch, Ronald P (US SSA) wrote:
> Is there a (reasonably easy) way to change the entries in the
> download menu on the change screen?
>
> For example, I would like to add a couple switches to the end
> cherry-pick command.
>
> A plugin perhaps?

If you're OK with writing Java, you can either patch [1] locally, or create
your own plugin based on that.

Cheers,
Jan

[1]
gerrit-gwtui/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/client/download/DownloadCommandLink.java



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[Dave Borowitz]

Unfortunately you can't modify existing download commands, you would have to disable the built-in version of cherry-pick and replace it with your own.

What flags are you considering adding? It might be worth changing the upstream command if they're of enough general interest. For example someone requested recently to add --ff, which I think would be a reasonable default.

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[Edwin Kempin]

The project-download-commands plugin [1] allows you to freely define download commands on project level.

It also supports inheritance, so you can define your download command in the All-Projects project to make

it available for all projects. For details check the plugin documentation [2,3].

[1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/project-download-commands
[2] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/project-download-commands/+/refs/heads/master/src/main/resources/Documentation/about.md
[3] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/project-download-commands/+/refs/heads/master/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md

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[Welch, Ronald P (US SSA)]

Hi Dave,

I am thinking of adding -Xtheirs -Xpatience --strategy-option=recursive

to the cherry-pick command. Long story short, it is one potential 

way of avoiding merge conflicts in our (rather convoluted) change

management process. 

I am not sure it would be a recommended best practice for most 

people and therefore probably not a good candidate for become 

the default :)

Thanks,

Ron

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[Dave Borowitz]

Thanks for the explanation, yeah, that sounds pretty specific to your workflow.

[Welch, Ronald P (US SSA)]

Hi Edwin,

The project-download-commands plugin sounds like it might be 

exactly what I am looking for. I will check it out (no pun

intended :)

Thanks,

Ron

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