On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (technically not a git question, but i kind of need to know the > > answer to this quickly as i'm writing some documentation and this is > > something i have to explain.) > > > > i cloned a repository (hyperledger fabric) which has a top-level > > .gitreview file: > > > > [gerrit] > > host=gerrit.hyperledger.org > > port=29418 > > project=fabric > > > > and, as i read it, if i want to configure to use gerrit, an initial > > invocation of "git review --setup" should do that for me, which it > > appears to do, as it adds the following to .git/config: > > > > [remote "gerrit"] > > url = ssh://rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:29418/fabric > > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gerrit/* > > > > and copies over the commit-msg hook. so far, so good. > > > > but from where does it figure out the username (rpjday) to use when > > configuring that remote? i have no gerrit configuration in my > > .gitconfig file. however, i have configured gerrit at the hyperledger > > end to use my SSH key, which is associated with my linux foundation ID > > (rpjday) that i registered to start using that repo. > > > > is that where it gets the username from? > > I've never used gerrit, but from my skimming of > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review#Setting_up_git-review > and > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial#Configuring_git-review > it seems (to me) to say that it simply tries if your local loginname > works on the remote. Is rpjday your loginname on this system? yes, but it's just a fluke that i used the same user name in both places ... what if i hadn't? which one would it have selected? rday
