Question

I am configuring Gerrit and I would like to avoid writing:

git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master

I would like to write:

git push review

I am sure it’s possible modifying .git/config but I can’t make it work.

Answer 1

I set up two different push types, review and noreview:

for reviews:

git config remote.review.pushurl ssh://<GERRIT_HOST>:29418/<PROJECT_PATH>.git
git config remote.review.push refs/heads/*:refs/for/*
git push review # this will push your current branch up for review

to bypass review:

git config remote.noreview.pushurl ssh://<GERRIT_HOST>:29418/<PROJECT_PATH>.git
git config remote.noreview.push refs/heads/*
git push noreview # this will push your current branch up, bypassing review

Note that there are some Gerrit Project changes that need to be made by the Project Owner/Gerrit Admin in order to bypass a review as well. I think the “Push” permission will need to be added to the project for refs/* (unless you’re getting specific about what branch you’ll allow bypassing the review in). However, for reviews, the permissions needed to post in will already be set up. In other words, if your

git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master

is working, than the “review” part above should work as well without changing anything else.