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Gerrit notifications: How to tame them?

Pavol Rajzak on January 22, 2018

We are currently required to use Gerrit for our code reviews. While in general I am okay with the "one-review-per-commit" mechanism and I actually ...
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Anders Lindén • Edited

I have a love-hate relationship with gerrit, the user interface is terrible.

You might find a way as I did, integrate gerrit within your IDE. For me I have the luxury that there is an awesome Gerrit plugin for JetBrains Intellij plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7272-...

You might find other plugins for other IDEs, if not you can always develop one because gerrit have a REST-api.

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Pavol Rajzak

Yes, I've been using Gerrit Intellij plugin, but it really didn't have the realtime notifications I would like to have. Anyway, I ended up writing my own simple UI just for the notification part (web app with browser notifications)