First time setting up Gerrit ... how to configure existing Git repositories that are remote thru firewall

[Michael Norman]

Subject pretty much says it all.

I can connect via (ssh) command-line and see what 'Add Project' wants, but I can't figure out

how to add a remote repository, especially one that requires 'special' configuration 'cause

I gotta tunnel thru our corporate firewall to get to it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Mike Norman

[Magnus Bäck]

On Friday, September 09, 2011 at 04:57 CEST,
Michael Norman <mwno...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject pretty much says it all.
>
> I can connect via (ssh) command-line and see what 'Add Project' wants,
> but I can't figure out
> how to add a remote repository, especially one that requires 'special'
> configuration 'cause
> I gotta tunnel thru our corporate firewall to get to it.

What do you mean by remote repository? All projects (gits) added to
a Gerrit installation are local. There's no way to connect Gerrit to
a git stored elsewhere. What you can do is create a local git as a
clone of another git and set up a job to mirror the remote git to
your git.

Anyway, please state the original problem that led you to want to
add a remote repository. "I want to add a remote repository" isn't
a problem, it's a solution to a problem.

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[Michael Norman]

Hmm, I guess I didn't understand that part of the docs.

So I clone an existing repo into Gerrit's directory $gerrit.basePath:

   git clone ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/eclipselink/sandbox.git

Do I need to use 'gerrit create-project' (via command-line over ssh) of the same name?

Or do I have to use 'gerrit gsql' to manually insert the project?

  INSERT INTO projects
    (use_contributor_agreements
     ,submit_type
     ,name)
  VALUES
    ('N'
    ,'M'
    ,'sandbox');

[Magnus Bäck]

On Friday, September 09, 2011 at 16:21 CEST,
Michael Norman <mwno...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I guess I didn't understand that part of the docs.
>
> So I clone an existing repo into Gerrit's directory $gerrit.basePath:
>
> git clone ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/eclipselink/sandbox.git

You need to make it a bare git with the --bare option.

> Do I need to use 'gerrit create-project' (via command-line over ssh)
> of the same name?

I wouldn't expect that to work since the git will already exist on the
server.

> Or do I have to use 'gerrit gsql' to manually insert the project?

That's another option I guess. I would've just created an empty git on
the server (with the create-project command), then cloned the upstream
git on a client and pushed its contents to Gerrit.

I'm not sure, but I think you can re-init Gerrit to have it import
the existing projects it finds.

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[Deniz Türkoglu]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Michael Norman <mwno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm, I guess I didn't understand that part of the docs.

So I clone an existing repo into Gerrit's directory $gerrit.basePath:

   git clone ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/eclipselink/sandbox.git

Do a bare clone, you don't need a working copy in gerrit and it causes problems. 

Do I need to use 'gerrit create-project' (via command-line over ssh) of the same name?

During installation point it to the directory where your clone(s) are hosted when asked, they need to be something like:

project1.git, project2.git 

Or do I have to use 'gerrit gsql' to manually insert the project?

And accept when it asks to import existing projects. I believe pretty much everything I said is in documents?!?

 

-deniz

  INSERT INTO projects
    (use_contributor_agreements
     ,submit_type
     ,name)
  VALUES
    ('N'
    ,'M'
    ,'sandbox');

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[Michael Norman]

I finally 'cracked' it!

I ran the installation as usual - and then under the ${gerrit.basePath}/git I cloned my existing repository:

however, I need to do it in 'bare' mode, without a staging directory:

   git clone --mirror ssh://some_machine/path/to/favourite/project.git project.git

There is a bug that I understand will be fixed in 2.2.2 - but until then, you have to manually

'fix' the meta-data ref:

   prompt > cd ${gerrit.basePath}/git/project.git/refs

   prompt > mkdir meta

   prompt > cd ${gerrit.basePath}/git

   prompt > mkdir tmp

   prompt > cd tmp

   prompt > git init

   prompt > touch project.config

   prompt > git add project.config

   prompt > git commit -m "Initially empty project.config" 

   prompt > git push ../project.git/ HEAD:refs/meta/config

NB - the ${gerrit.basePath}/git/project.git directory must end in '.git' or Gerrit won't pick up

the new project when the cache is flushed:

    ssh -p 29418 gerrit-host gerrit flush-caches projects

I now have all the project's history, but subsequent commits can go thru the Gerrit review process

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Mike Norman