Push existing repositories to Gerrit.

[hakie]

Hi all,

I want to introduce Gerrit system into our workflow.
I have installed Gerrit and the basic operation is workable.
Now i am going to push all repositories from the orginal server to
Gerrit server.
I've doing the searching for a while, but still have no idea how to do
push all repositories to Gerrit server in an easy way.
The only one way i know is to create each project manually.
ex: ssh -p 29418 hostname gerrit create-project --name projectname

And push all commits to Gerrit
ex: git push ssh://sshusername@hostname:29418/projectname HEAD:refs/
for/branchname

But this way is very stupid.
So anyone can tell me how you moved all repositories from outside to
Gerrit server.

Thank you.

Justin

[Magnus Bäck]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 11:44 CEST,
hakie <haki...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pushing to refs/for/branchname will create changes for each commit,
and this would of course be stupid, but if you instead push to
refs/heads/branchname you'll bypass the code review and push the
commits straight into the branch.

Now, a git is just files in a file system so you could use
rsync or similar, but I'd just push everything.

I've experienced out of memory problems when pushing a large repository
(like the Linux kernel) to the server, but that was over a year ago on
an underpowered virtual machine with an old Gerrit release. A workaround
then was to push a little bit a time instead of everything in one go.

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[hakie]

Thank for your reply.

So you mean if i have a hundred of git projects, I would create them
first by a hand-written script. And push them each by each?

Thank you~

Justin

On 8月24日, 下午6時12分, Magnus Bäck <magnus.b...@sonyericsson.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 11:44 CEST,

[Magnus Bäck]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 15:29 CEST,
hakie <haki...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So you mean if i have a hundred of git projects, I would create them
> first by a hand-written script. And push them each by each?

Something like that. Of course, given a list of gits the creation and
push operations would be accomplished with a simple for loop in the
shell. If you have the gits listed in a Repo manifest you can even have
Repo do the looping for you -- have a look at the "repo forall" command.

[Nasser Grainawi]

On 08/24/2010 03:56 AM, hakie wrote:
> Hi all,

>
> I want to introduce Gerrit system into our workflow.
> I have installed Gerrit and the basic operation is workable.
> Now i am going to push all repositories from the orginal server to
> Gerrit server.
> I've doing the searching for a while, but still have no idea how to do
> push all repositories to Gerrit server in an easy way.
> The only one way i know is to create each project manually.
> ex: ssh -p 29418 hostname gerrit create-project --name projectname
>
> And push all commits to Gerrit
> ex: git push ssh://sshusername@hostname:29418/projectname HEAD:refs/
> for/branchname
>
> But this way is very stupid.
> So anyone can tell me how you moved all repositories from outside to
> Gerrit server.
>

> Thank you.
>
> Justin
>

You could rsync them, then re-run the 'init' command and tell it where
you rsync'ed the gits to.

Nasser

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[Shawn Pearce]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:12, Magnus Bäck <magnu...@sonyericsson.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 11:44 CEST,
>     hakie <haki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to introduce Gerrit system into our workflow.
>> I have installed Gerrit and the basic operation is workable.
>> Now i am going to push all repositories from the orginal server to
>> Gerrit server.
>

> Pushing to refs/for/branchname will create changes for each commit,
> and this would of course be stupid, but if you instead push to
> refs/heads/branchname you'll bypass the code review and push the
> commits straight into the branch.

If you do this, you need to ensure you have granted yourself the
following permissions:

Push Branch +2 (or +3)
Forge Identity +2 (or +3)

I would just add these to -- All Projects -- for group Administrators
and reference refs/*. That way you can push to all of your projects
to setup the import, and then remove these two lines once done.

[hakie]

Thanks for all your reply.

I have done this job by using "repo forall" to do "create project" and
"push" from my existing project to Gerrit server.
The commnad is like below:

1. repo forall -c 'ssh -p 29418 USER...@codereview.example.com gerrit
create-project --name $REPO_PROJECT'

2. repo forall -c 'git push ssh://USER...@codereview.example.com:29418/${REPO_PROJECT}
HEAD:refs/heads/master'

Hopefully this will be helpful to others as well.

Gracias~

Hakie

On 8月25日, 上午1時19分, Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:12, Magnus Bäck <magnus.b...@sonyericsson.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 11:44 CEST,