Chad wrote: > I've just come across (and enabled) a feature in Gerrit that I think > many will find useful. I'm calling them "personal sandboxes." The > basic premise is that each user can have a personal branch space > that they have push rights to that don't require admin intervention. > > The branches are named in the format "sandbox/$username/*" so I > could make a sandbox called "sandbox/demon/weekend-hacking" > and push that to gerrit without requiring review or anyone to make > the branch first. Quick example: > > $ cd mediawiki/core > $ git checkout -b sandbox/demon/foo-bar > [ hack away ] > $ git push --set-upstream origin sandbox/demon/foo-bar > > (The --set-upstream is only necessary the first time you push) > > This isn't designed to replace long-lived branches where you are > collaborating with others, but to simply give you a space where you > can push some work when you want to stash it (and it should be > viewable by Gitweb, if you want others to see it).
I've thrown this on mediawiki.org here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/personal_sandbox>. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
