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Support renaming repositories in Gerrit
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My understanding is that the Gerrit metadata will no more be in the database and would only be in the Git repository (known as NoteDB). Gerrit the index those metadata from git into a faster system (the secondary index, supported by Lucene).

So if I get it right, renaming a repository would mean something like:

  • stop Gerrit
  • move the git repository on disk
  • run offline indexing to get rid of the old repository and notice the new repository
  • start Gerrit
  • Possibly flush the project_list cache? Had an issue with the parentproject:integration query after deleting a repository ( T263682 ). Can be done using gerrit flush-caches --cache project_list

But:

  • the offline indexing takes age iirc (roughly an hour when we did it for Gerrit 3.2 upgrade).
  • online indexing does not seem to support deleting informations for a no more existing repository

Gerrit mailing list discussion (2020-09-14): https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/ZPVSc5h2hNw

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hashar created this task.Dec 3 2019, 10:08 AM
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hashar added a comment.Dec 3 2019, 10:08 AM

Filled that task since I could not find a task to support renaming repositories. At least no task that express the feature request.

hashar added a subtask: T201953: Install rename-project plugin.Dec 3 2019, 10:09 AM
hashar closed subtask T201953: Install rename-project plugin as Declined.
hashar mentioned this in T201953: Install rename-project plugin.
hashar added a parent task: T125031: PHP libraries as Gerrit top-level projects.
hashar added a parent task: T103614: Rename git repo to "SyntaxHighlight".Dec 3 2019, 10:11 AM
hashar added a parent task: T239688: Rename operations/debs/poolcounter-prometheus-exporter to match other Prometheus repositories.Dec 3 2019, 10:22 AM
MarcoAurelio subscribed.Dec 3 2019, 10:57 AM
Paladox added a comment.Dec 3 2019, 11:02 AM

This should be supported with the online indexer I think (I remember testing this but it was on a different version and also a while ago)

Under 2.16+ you need to reindex the project index and changes.

hashar reopened subtask T201953: Install rename-project plugin as Open.Dec 4 2019, 9:00 AM
hashar added a parent task: T261199: Rename repo name on Gerrit from "examples" to "Examples".Aug 25 2020, 12:43 PM
hashar mentioned this in T103614: Rename git repo to "SyntaxHighlight".Sep 6 2020, 10:11 PM
hashar mentioned this in T125031: PHP libraries as Gerrit top-level projects.Sep 6 2020, 10:14 PM
hashar triaged this task as Low priority.Sep 14 2020, 7:47 AM

I have bring it up to the Gerrit discussion mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/ZPVSc5h2hNw

hashar updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 14 2020, 7:47 AM
Aklapper mentioned this in T257775: mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda repository has a leading space in the name.Sep 23 2020, 3:56 PM
hashar updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 23 2020, 7:16 PM
thcipriani edited projects, added Release-Engineering-Team (thcipriani-workboard-fiddling); removed Release-Engineering-Team (Development services).Apr 20 2021, 1:17 AM
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hashar mentioned this in T336902: Gerrit gives spurious V-1 Merge Failed in wikimedia/fundraising/tools repo.Jun 27 2023, 1:55 PM
hashar closed subtask T201953: Install rename-project plugin as Resolved.Feb 5 2024, 2:47 PM
hashar closed this task as Resolved.Feb 6 2024, 9:14 AM
hashar claimed this task.

From T201953, I have finally added to our Gerrit instance the rename-project plugin which provides a rename-project ssh command (as well as a REST API entry point).

I think the interest of this task was to detail the manual steps that would be required to complete a project renaming, notably flushing the project-list cache or reindexing the changes. The plugin handles that for us.

Thus I guess we can mark this one as solved (by the plugin) and remove the stalled state from all parent tasks.

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