GitButler Gerrit Support

[Scott Chacon]

Hey all,

Luca has perhaps mentioned this here and there on this list, but GitButler has put some effort over the last few months into adding native Gerrit support to our client (both GUI and CLI).

This includes automatic change-id generation (without a commit-msg hook), publishing to `for/refs/` automatically, linking to the change URL, etc.

https://blog.gitbutler.com/gerrit-mode

We would love to hear feedback if anyone tries it out. We hope it can be particularly helpful for users newer to Gerrit, since they can avoid the complex or error prone hook installation, rebasing, amending, or pushspec issues.

If you try it out and have any feedback, please let me know.

Thanks!

Scott

(also, if it's important, the client is free, source available and published under an eventual open source FSL license - essentially MIT with a noncompete clause that converts to MIT after 2 years)

[Daniele Sassoli]

On Monday, 10 November 2025 at 13:39:29 UTC sch...@gmail.com wrote:

Hey all,

Luca has perhaps mentioned this here and there on this list, but GitButler has put some effort over the last few months into adding native Gerrit support to our client (both GUI and CLI).

This looks great, will be giving it a go over the upcoming weeks. 

This includes automatic change-id generation (without a commit-msg hook), publishing to `for/refs/` automatically, linking to the change URL, etc.

https://blog.gitbutler.com/gerrit-mode

Love the cover image, maybe the best representation of Diffy  yet? ahah.

We would love to hear feedback if anyone tries it out. We hope it can be particularly helpful for users newer to Gerrit, since they can avoid the complex or error prone hook installation, rebasing, amending, or pushspec issues.

If you try it out and have any feedback, please let me know.

Thanks!

Scott

(also, if it's important, the client is free, source available and published under an eventual open source FSL license - essentially MIT with a noncompete clause that converts to MIT after 2 years)

+1, useful info 

[Luca Milanesio]

Hey Scott, good to hear from you on this channel !

On 10 Nov 2025, at 13:38, Scott Chacon <sch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

Luca has perhaps mentioned this here and there on this list, but GitButler has put some effort over the last few months into adding native Gerrit support to our client (both GUI and CLI).

This includes automatic change-id generation (without a commit-msg hook), publishing to `for/refs/` automatically, linking to the change URL, etc.

https://blog.gitbutler.com/gerrit-mode

We would love to hear feedback if anyone tries it out. We hope it can be particularly helpful for users newer to Gerrit, since they can avoid the complex or error prone hook installation, rebasing, amending, or pushspec issues.

I confirm the feedback I gave you a couple of weeks ago at the Gerrit User Summit 2025 (see [1]) … you are making Gerrit sexy again!

I truly like the flow of GitButler with Gerrit, it looks so natural.

If you try it out and have any feedback, please let me know.

Will do and thanks for sharing it.

Luca.

[1] https://youtu.be/boJOHlJj5C0?t=1513

Thanks!

Scott

(also, if it's important, the client is free, source available and published under an eventual open source FSL license - essentially MIT with a noncompete clause that converts to MIT after 2 years)

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[John de Largentaye]

Thanks Scott,

Coming from a CLI-native (with some Magit excursions), I've been interested in the innovations you're introducing with GitButler. I'm excited to give this new Gerrit support a try.