What are "p"-style Gerrit HTTPS URLs

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Hi,

I recently saw for the first time a supposed-to-be Gerrit clone URL in the form

https://gerrit.server.com/p/parent/project.git

While cloning from such a URL works in our Gerrit instance, I wasn't aware of this style until now. I though (authenticated) HTTPS URLs are in the form

https://gerrit.server.com/a/parent/project

Note the "a" instead of "p", and the omitted ".git" suffix. That's also the "http" URL style our Gerrit instance shows on each project's "General" tab.

Is the "p"-style URL documented somewhere? What's its purpose?

Thanks,
Sebastian

[Matthias Sohn]

before the patch [1] the p/ style URLs were mandatory for http URLs for the GitServlet

to distinguish them from the URLs used for GWT UI and REST API.

[1] https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/4332/

-Matthias

[Sebastian Schuberth]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:10 AM, Matthias Sohn <matthi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> before the patch [1] the p/ style URLs were mandatory for http URLs for the
> GitServlet
> to distinguish them from the URLs used for GWT UI and REST API.

Ok, thanks, but are they *documented* somewhere? I just wonder how
users of Gerrit find out about /p/ URLs if they are ot documented, and
they are also not what Gerrit offers to copy to the clipboard in the
project settings.

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Sebastian Schuberth

[Matthias Sohn]

I don't get why this should be documented if it's not needed.

Check your gerrit.config, maybe you have configured that in gerrit.canonicalWebUrl ?

-Matthias

[Sebastian Schuberth]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Matthias Sohn <matthi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't get why this should be documented if it's not needed.
> Check your gerrit.config, maybe you have configured that in
> gerrit.canonicalWebUrl ?

Because I see Gerrit users using /p/ style URLs with their local Git
client to clone repos from Gerrit. In my tries to encourage them to
use SSH instead (and also not /a/ style HTTPS URLs) it would help if I
could refer to either a) documentation that states that /p/ style URLs
are deprecated, or b) have some official answer on this mailing list
that /p/ style URLs are undocumented and thus are discouraged to be
used :-)

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Sebastian Schuberth

[David Pursehouse]

I only found one instance of /p/ being used in the documentation, and I'm removing that in [1].

You can probably use this mail thread as the official answer that /p/ urls are no longer used :)

[1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/156630

 

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Sebastian Schuberth

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[Sebastian Schuberth]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 12:30 AM, David Pursehouse
<david.pu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I only found one instance of /p/ being used in the documentation, and I'm
> removing that in [1].
>
> You can probably use this mail thread as the official answer that /p/ urls
> are no longer used :)

Thanks ;-)

Regards,
Sebastian