Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Synchronize your client
While you were working, others might have submitted changes to the repository. To update your local branch, run
$ git codereview sync
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Synchronize your client
While you were working, others might have submitted changes to the repository. To update your local branch, run
$ git codereview sync
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Reviewing code by others
As part of the review process reviewers can propose changes directly (in the GitHub workflow this would be someone else attaching commits to a pull request). You can import these changes proposed by someone else into your local Git repository. On the Gerrit review page, click the "Download ▼" link in the upper right corner, copy the "Checkout" command and run it from your local Git repo. It will look something like this:
$ git fetch https://go.googlesource.com/review refs/changes/21/13245/1 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Quickly testing your changes
The same applies to other internal tools of the Go tool chain, such as
$ cd $GODIR/test
$ $GODIR/bin/go run run.go
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Copyright headers
New files that you contribute should use the standard copyright header:
// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Set up git aliases
The git-codereview subcommands have been chosen to be distinct from Git's own, so it's safe to define these aliases. To install them, copy this text into your Git configuration file (usually .gitconfig in your home directory):
[alias]
	change = codereview change
	gofmt = codereview gofmt
	mail = codereview mail
	pending = codereview pending
	submit = codereview submit
	sync = codereview sync
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Quickly testing your changes
Running all.bash for every single change to the code tree is burdensome. Even though it is strongly suggested to run it before sending a change, during the normal development cycle you may want to compile and test only the package you are developing.
$ cd <MYPROJECTDIR>
$ $GODIR/bin/go test
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Troubleshooting mail errors
If you see something like...
remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done
remote:
remote: ERROR:  In commit ab13517fa29487dcf8b0d48916c51639426c5ee9
remote: ERROR:  author email address XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
remote: ERROR:  does not match your user account.
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Troubleshooting mail errors
you need to configure Git for this repository to use the e-mail address that you registered with. To change the e-mail address to ensure this doesn't happen again, run:
$ git config user.email email@address.com
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Troubleshooting mail errors
Then change the commit to use this alternative e-mail address with this command:
$ git commit --amend --author="Author Name <email@address.com>"
Go Contribution Guide Miscellaneous topics Troubleshooting mail errors
Then retry by running:
$ git codereview mail

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