Hello everyone, Stefan and Patrick recently made some changes which allow us to use the draft feature of Gerrit.
This feature allows developers to create changes which are visible only to the author and selected reviewers and do not cause e-mail to be sent to the list. Once the developer is happy with the patch it can be published for general review as usual. A draft cannot be submitted directly.
This is particularly handy for early development of a patch or patch set with multiple people. It can also be used by individuals to stash a work in progress on-line so that it's easy to access on multiple machines.
Details about drafts here: http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow#Drafts
To use it, push to refs/drafts/. There's also a nice helper utility, git-review, which makes it easy to upload patches whether they are drafts or not. Use "-D" to upload a patch (and all subsequent updates) to keep it in draft state. When you wish to publish a patch, use "git review" without -D or press the "Publish" button on the gerrit UI.
More details about git-review here: https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git-review
"git review" does a bit more than just the bare minimum amount of work, but those curious: dhendrix@noumenon:coreboot$ git review -Dv 2012-11-02 16:03:59.010298 Running: git log --color=never --oneline HEAD^1..HEAD 2012-11-02 16:03:59.014268 Running: git remote 2012-11-02 16:03:59.017472 Running: git branch -a --color=never 2012-11-02 16:03:59.022055 Running: git branch --color=never 2012-11-02 16:03:59.026509 Running: git log HEAD^1..HEAD Found topic 'test' from parsing changes. 2012-11-02 16:03:59.033992 Running: git rev-parse --git-dir 2012-11-02 16:03:59.038054 Running: git remote update gerrit Fetching gerrit
From ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot
41392df..7309709 master -> gerrit/master 2012-11-02 16:04:11.037711 Running: git rebase -i remotes/gerrit/master 2012-11-02 16:04:11.850276 Running: git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD 2012-11-02 16:04:11.927762 Running: git remote update gerrit Fetching gerrit 2012-11-02 16:04:22.140791 Running: git config --get color.ui 2012-11-02 16:04:22.145475 Running: git log --color=auto --decorate --oneline test --not remotes/gerrit/master 2012-11-02 16:04:22.152204 Running: git push gerrit HEAD:refs/drafts/master/test remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1) remote: Processing changes: new: 1, refs: 1, done remote: remote: New Changes: remote: http://review.coreboot.org/1671 [DRAFT] remote: To ssh://dhendrix@review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot * [new branch] HEAD -> refs/drafts/master/test
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David Hendricks