Time for action – setting up a Gerrit profile

Gerrit is a distributed version control system review tool that can be used to upload patches for review and ultimate merging with the repository. It provides a Git interface and acts as a remote Git server, so using it with existing tools or command lines is trivial.

  1. Navigate to the Gerrit user interface at https://git.eclipse.org/r/ and ensure that the profile is correctly set up. The name and e-mail address will be taken from the information provided when creating the Eclipse account.

    Note

    A password is required in order to push changes to Gerrit. This can be done either through a Gerrit-specific randomly generated HTTP password, or through an uploaded SSH key. Note that while the e-mail address and ...

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