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.


 * General git setup: create an SSH key and install and configure Git.
 * MediaWiki-specific setup: register a developer account 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, try the maintainer for the component you've edited, or ask on IRC.

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

To test or otherwise work with other people's code, just follow the same steps to amend a change described above, using the corresponding.