Yeah, if you push to GitLab in the normal way (ssh) it should trigger a hook. If you write to the disk directly the hook is not triggered.
Best regards, Sytse Sijbrandij CEO GitLab B.V. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Jonas Hellström <jbh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, good to know. Thanks for the quick replies, much appreciated. > > The reason for why: > > 1: We use Gerrit at work, so I'm most familiar with that > 2: The transition between Gerrit and Gitlab would be smoother if I could > have both worlds > 3: I'm currently experimenting with the setup to see what can be supported > > I wouldn't know really how to properly make these syncs work with ssh. I > guess you mean that I would use a post-merge hook that pushes the changes > from Gerrit to Gitlab? Would Gitlab be aware of the changes and present > them as Activities if I managed to do this? > > Thank you, > Jonas > > On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:53:10 UTC+2, sytse wrote: >> >> Hi Jonas, >> >> In that case I misunderstood, GitLab should be fine with other programs >> symlinking to its directories. >> >> But you are left with your initial problem. There is no way for GitLab to >> be informed that Gerrit is modifying the files. >> >> I'm not sure if it is practical but it would be better to modify a local >> repository with Gerrit and than push those changes to GitLab over ssh. >> >> By the way, why use Gerrit at all? Is there something you're missing from >> GitLab merge requests? >> >> Best regards, >> Sytse Sijbrandij >> CEO GitLab B.V. >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Jonas Hellström <jbh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hmm, either I'm misunderstanding the warning in that configuration file >>> or I'm not 100% clear. >>> >>> * The symlink itself is not the Gitlab repos_path. >>> * Gitlab's repos_path is a regular folder that contains regular bare >>> repositories. >>> * The symlinks I create are placed in Gerrits repositories path. Gerrit >>> finds them without issues. It is just that Gitlab does not seem to become >>> aware of a merge made within Gerrit. >>> >>> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:00:31 UTC+2, sytse wrote: >>>> >>>> FYI We explicitly warn against making the repo path a symlink >>>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/1d432e9 >>>> 6bc44ad2f7f67dc4a551d34083f51f281/config/gitlab.yml.example#L236 since >>>> it has caused a lot of problems in the past. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Sytse Sijbrandij >>>> CEO GitLab B.V. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Jonas Hellström <jbh...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've been dabbling with both Gerrit and Gitlab for a very brief period >>>>> and I've come to like them both in their own special ways. >>>>> I'm also collaborating with a few other people who have varying >>>>> experience with both Gitlab and Gerrit, which is why I'm trying to please >>>>> both parties. >>>>> >>>>> I've been successful at setting up Gerrit 2.8 and Gitlab 7.3.2 and >>>>> they seem to be working nicely. >>>>> What I've done in order to satisfy that both Gerrit and Gitlab share >>>>> the same codebase is to point a symlink from Gitlab to Gerrit's repo_home >>>>> folder. This is working out ok, Gerrit sees the repositories. It's also >>>>> possible to clone the repositories from either end and work with them. >>>>> Gitlab shows the commit history of whatever merge is done by Gerrit. >>>>> >>>>> What doesn't work as well as I'd like is that the Dashboard never >>>>> reflects any of the Gerrit-merges. I'm trying to figure out if there's a >>>>> way to add a hook or something else to the merge flow, to trigger Gitlab >>>>> to >>>>> become aware of the change and make it show up. >>>>> >>>>> This is where I'd like to turn to you all. This setup is not ideal, >>>>> because you would normally not use more than one code review tool, but you >>>>> can see this as an experiment that I'd like to see if it's possible to >>>>> follow through on. >>>>> >>>>> If anyone has a tips on how it would be possible for Gitlab to become >>>>> aware of a Gerrit merge (submit) into a Git repository shared by both >>>>> Gitlab and Gerrit, please share. 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