Our goal is to do internal development based on a project hosted on an external repo (github) using git and gerrit. We would pull from the external repo periodically to bring in new changes and branches, and use gerrit to manage the review process (and Jenkins to build it all).
Our initial process is to clone from the external repo to a local repo via git, then create an empty project in gerrit, and finally push the local clone to gerrit.
At that point, however, we see no branches in the gerrit repo! Right now we’re working around that by manually adding the branched and refids, but that seems convoluted and fragile. I’d think the external branches would come in by default, without extra contortions. They are certainly in the clone made from the github repo.
Ideally, it’d be nice to be able to clone straight from github to gerrit and have it just work… it’s not clear why the extra local repo is necessary simply to transfer things, or why branches aren’t appearing in the gerrit clone when the local clone is pushed to it. Suggestions?
When you perform a git push, it only pushes the active branch (HEAD). If you wish to push all branches and tags, do something like
git push origin refs/heads/* --tagsIt isn’t technically required to have a local copy of the repository before pushing to Gerrit, but it is probably the easiest method.