On Sat, Mar 31 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? Seems like a fairly common case, especially as gerrit tends to be used in Big Corp setups where your username is the same. According to the docs I linked to it'll ask you if it doesn't happen to match, but as I've said never used it, and that may be wrong.
