How to manage your source code with Git, Gerrit and Jenkins


Are you managing a piece of code? Are there several contributors to that code? Maybe some are less know to you which provides questionable quality? How do you control of the incoming changes to the code?

If you are in an code environment which uses Git as a version control system then using Gerrit can help you with the process of reviewing code changes. Adding Jenkins to the game can be a game changer…

Never heard about Gerrit? As described by Google…

Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.

Never heard about Jenkins?

Jenkins is a continuous integration tool which provides continuous integration services for software development, such automatic build and test of code.

The following video introduces how one could use Git and Gerrit together with Jenkins. For any one that which to take control of their code and its quality then this is the way to go in the future!

Using Gerrit Git Review with Jenkins CI Server from Alex Blewitt on Vimeo.

What do you think? Do you already use Git , Gerrit and Jenksin? Let us know by leaving a comment!