Gerrit/Tutorial/tl;dr

This is a very short guide to using Git and Gerrit for MediaWiki development. For more details, including troubleshooting, see Git/Workflow and Git/Tutorial.


 * Things That are Described Very Well on Many Other Sites: Create an SSH key and install and configure Git.
 * Things that are special to MediaWiki: Get Developer access and Install git-review.

Get the code:



Write and send new code:

Go to Gerrit's web UI, click your change and write a reviewer name in the input box near the Add Reviewer button. If you don't know who to invite, ask on IRC.

If the reviewer asks you to make changes, you'll have to make them and amend your change:

To test other people's code, download it using the command. The CHANGE-ID appears on the change's page in Gerrit. downloads the change to a branch. You can work with this just you work with a branch that you created yourself.