Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – committing and pushing a patch

To submit patches to Gerrit, the change must first be committed locally, and the remote repository pointed to Gerrit. Then the change can be pushed and the builds triggered.

1. When committing for the first time, Git will ask for a user name and an e-mail address. That's because changes in Git are associated with a name and e-mail address and nothing else. In Eclipse, triggering a commit will bring up a dialog asking for these details; alternatively they can be specified in the Preferences | Team | Git | Configuration panel under the user.name and user.email values. Alternatively the git command line can be used to set them, using:

   $ git config --global user.name "My Name" $ git config --global user.email ...