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title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Gerrit Is A Mistake"
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date = 2019-07-29
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "git", "gerrit"]
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I hate calling software "a mistake", but I can't find any other way to
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describe Gerrit. You may see people using Gerrit 'cause Google uses it. The
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thing is: Google misunderstood what Git actually is.
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When Linus Torvalds came with Git, he was trying to mimic another system,
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BitKeeper. Along with some improvements over CVS and SubVersion, Git made
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really easy to create and merge branches, something that was either
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almost-not-supported or slow-as-heck, depending on which tool you look at.
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You need to take this into consideration: Git made branches easy.
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Then someone came with the idea of Gerrit: Instead of managing branches, it
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actually manages _commits_. Instead of having a branch for each feature, you
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should have _one single commit_ as feature. You can have branches on your
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machine, but the server only deal with commits.
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So Gerrit took Git, a tool that improved the way we deal with branches, and
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removed branches. This is akin to taking a text editor and taking away the
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ability to _edit text_. Does that sound right to you?
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In my personal opinion, what they did was to take git apart and put an err in
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the middle: gERRit.
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When I see someone using Gerrit, I know something is wrong there.
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{{ chapters(prev_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/one-change-commit", prev_chapter_title="One Commit Per Change", next_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/project-organization", next_chapter_title="Organize Your Code by Data/Type, Not Functionality") }}
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