fetching from gerrit.ovirt.org

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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 04:58:07AM -0500, Allon Mureinik wrote:
> Stupid question: any reason gerrit.ovirt.org only has a button for
> fetchs via git and not http(s)?
> Not that I can't replace git:// with http:// in my command line, but
> it's kinda annoying.

I'm not that familiar with gerrit so I can only provide a workaround.
You can tell git to always use http://gerrit.ovirt.org insteadof
git://gerrit.ovirt.org. Add the following to your git config:

[url "http://gerrit.ovirt.org:"]
	insteadOf = "git://gerrit.ovirt.org"

See http://blog.mraw.org/2011/05/24/Git_tip_of_the_day_insteadOf/

Personally I've taken this a step further (but that doesn't work with
the copy paste URLs from gerrit):

[url "git://gerrit.ovirt.org/"]
        insteadOf = "ovirt:"
[url "gerrit.ovirt.org:"]
        pushInsteadOf = "ovirt:"

Then you can do things like git clone ovirt:vdsm and it will use
git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm to fetch/pull and gerrit.ovirt.org:vdsm to
push.

Perhaps a better alternative is to use git-review -d to retrieve
changes:

$ git review -d 11852
Downloading refs/changes/52/11852/3 from gerrit into review/yeela_kaplan/11852
Switched to branch 'review/yeela_kaplan/11852'

See https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git-review#Downloading_a_change_with_git-review