repoload
is a commandline tool, written in python3, that should make your
life and daily work with the repo tool and the gerrit review
system more pleasant.
repoload
has currently only a very limited set of functionalities and a lot
of TODOS
in the code, but it's already useful. The possibility to download
multiple CRs (Change Requests) by naming the crossrepo topic is the must-have
feature, because it's not supported by repo
itself.
The full feature list is:
- Query gerrit for open CRs
- Query gerrit for open topic names
- Download a CR or multiple CRs linked by a topic at once.
It also works with gerrit using the autosubmitter plugin.
Before using repoload
you have to install the script and configure the gerrit
server URL. See below.
The primary use case of repoload
is to easily checkout crossrepo/
CRs
(Change Requests) from gerrit.
Example:
# Change directory into the repo checkout
$ cd to/repo/checkout
# Bring your repo checkout into a consistent state
# Beware: 'repo sync' maybe drops your local modifications without a warning
# Backup your code changes!
$ repo sync
# Query the gerrit server for open CRs
# You can use `grep` to filter for your coworker's CRs
$ repoload changes | grep -i john
123: Add feature A (John Doe <[email protected]>) [topic: crossrepo/feature-a]
128: Update library for feature A (John Doe <[email protected]>) [topic: crossrepo/feature-a]
[...]
# For downloading all CRs linked by a topic, just use the topic name
$ repoload download crossrepo/feature-a
# For downloading only a single CR, use the CR number
$ repoload download 123
# Build, test and have fun.
All repoload
commands have an abbreviation:
$ repoload c # for 'changes'
$ repoload t # for 'topics'
$ repoload d # for 'download'
For further information see:
$ repoload --help
$ repoload download --help # and so forth
The installation of repoload
is possible over PyPI or by directly using the
python script.
PyPI:
$ python3 -m pip install --user repoload
To manually install the self contained repoload.py
python script. Just drop
the file in a folder that your environment variable PATH
references.
Example:
$ mkdir -p ~/bin
$ cp repoload/repoload.py ~/bin/repoload
$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
$ chmod +x ~/bin/repoload # ensure that the script is executeable
After that the command repoload
should be available in a newly started shell
and the command
$ repoload changes
should print a list of open change requests.
Repoload looks for the manifest repository configuration file to determine the
URL of the Gerrit server. It works automatically if the current working
directory is below a repo
checkout. Alternatively, the environment variable
ANDROID_BUILD_TOP
can be set to the directory where a repo
checkout is
located. Finally, the URL can be set directly via the environment variable
GERRIT_URL
.
If you execute repoload
with a non UTF8 locale, the program may abort with a
python UnicodeEncodeError
exception. Example:
$ LC_ALL=C repoload c
[...]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/johndoe/.local/bin/repoload", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/johndoe/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/repoload/repoload.py", line 252, in main
ret = args.func(args)
File "/home/johndoe/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/repoload/repoload.py", line 122, in print_open_changes
print("%d: %s (%s)%s" % (cr.get('number'), cr.get('subject'), author, topic_str))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 70: ordinal not in range(128)
The reason are non-ASCII characters, e.g. in the author or topic field, that cannot be printed to the terminal, if the locale is non-UTF8. The current workaround is to not use repoload with non-UTF8 character sets.
It's planned to fix this issue in the next version of repoload.
The code is licensed under the MIT License.
See the file COPYING
.
The project is open for contribution. Open a github pull request or send a patch via email. If you take the patch route, you can find our mail addresses in the git history easily.
Please add a Signed-off-by
tag in the commit/patch message to state the
copyright ownership and license information of your patch. Read Developer
Certificate of Origin v1.1 to understand
the meaning and obligations your are taking by adding your sign-off. Thanks in
advance.
To create a release of repoload additional packaging dependency's are needed:
$ python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade twine setuptools wheel
Next the release which is described in the setup.py file gets packaged.
The version number is taken from the repoload/repoload.py __VERSION__
string.
$ python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
As final step the release can be uploaded to PyPI. See the PyPI documentation on how to configure the credentials for twine.
$ python3 -m twine upload dist/*