How to change the Username on Profile web page?
I.E.
see my Username set to something that I don't want. (It doesn't match
the first part of my email address.)
I want to change the username, but the website won't let me.
When I click on the Username field, and delete the existing text and
type new text, it doesn't get saved. Also, I don't see any "Change
Username" button, as mentioned here:
https://review.source.android.com/Documentation/user-upload.html
So how do I change my Username?
Also, how would I close my account if I wanted to close it in the
future?
Shawn Pearce
> When I log into review.source.android.com -> Settings -> Profile, I
> see my Username set to something that I don't want. (It doesn't match
> the first part of my email address.)
>
> I want to change the username, but the website won't let me.
Current versions of Gerrit don't permit the username to be modified once set.
> So how do I change my Username?
You can't.
> Also, how would I close my account if I wanted to close it in the
> future?
You can't. There currently is a way to delete an account, as it might
invalidate prior code reviews that the account was involved in. (And
we also didn't get to it, we've had more interesting issues to address
than trying to delete a user account.)
I.E.
Could someone please change my username for me?
Without changing it, "repo upload" won't work, so I have a dead,
useless account.
There is no "Contact Administrator" button on Gerrit.
On Oct 19, 3:18 am, Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com> wrote:
David Kohen
On Oct 19, 4:18 am, Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com> wrote:
> > When I log into review.source.android.com -> Settings -> Profile, I
>
> Current versions of Gerrit don't permit theusernameto be modified once set.
would it be considered?
Shawn Pearce
> On Oct 19, 4:18 am, Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 14:56, I.E. <inib...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > When I log into review.source.android.com -> Settings -> Profile, I
>> > see myUsernameset to something that I don't want. (It doesn't match
>> > the first part of my email address.)
>>
>> > I want to change theusername, but the website won't let me.
>>
>> Current versions of Gerrit don't permit theusernameto be modified once set.
>
> Is this intentional or just for lack of code? If I add this feature,
> would it be considered?
Its intentional. Older versions supported changing the username. We
deleted that code and disabled the renaming support.
The reason is, Gerrit now supports per-user branch names. A project
owner may setup an access rule such as:
refs/dev/${username}/* Push +3
Allowing a user to push any branch they choose, so long as its
prefixed with their current username. If we allowed changing
usernames, we also need to change all of the references that the user
may have already created. That gets very ugly to code. It may also
confuse the user later when he tries to push again, his old push
configuration on the client may no longer work because the branch
namespace changed when his username changed. And his URLs also need
to change. Etc.
So to simplify the server code, we just disallowed username changes.
Once the name is chosen, its set.
Jean-Baptiste Queru
that the ssh username must match the username in the committer's email
address, this causes problems (not to mention that the usernames in
email addresses aren't guaranteed to be unique).
What are the options for people who'd like to use an email address
that doesn't match their ssh username?
JBQ
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Shawn Pearce
> That makes sense. Unfortunately, when combined with the requirement
> that the ssh username must match the username in the committer's email
> address, this causes problems (not to mention that the usernames in
> email addresses aren't guaranteed to be unique).
>
> What are the options for people who'd like to use an email address
> that doesn't match their ssh username?
Set the Gerrit username in ~/.gitconfig:
$ repo help upload
Summary
-------
Upload changes for code review
...
Configuration
-------------
...
review.URL.username:
Override the username used to connect to Gerrit Code Review. By default
the local part of the email address is used.
The URL must match the review URL listed in the manifest XML file, or in
the .git/config within the project. For example:
[remote "origin"]
url = git://git.example.com/project.git
review = http://review.example.com/
[review "http://review.example.com/"]
autoupload = true
autocopy = joh...@company.com,my-tea...@company.com
So I can do:
git config --global review.review.source.android.com.username MYNAME
Jean-Baptiste Queru
JBQ
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