DEPOT_TOOLS_GERRIT_A(7)

NAME
depot_tools_gerrit_auth - Gerrit authentication for depot_tools

DESCRIPTION

The Chromium depot_tools(7) suite contains many tools which may need to authenticate to Gerrit.

Gerrit uses OAuth for authentication. For depot_tools, OAuth is handled by git-credential-luci.

Authentication is needed both for Gerrit API calls made by depot_tools and for operations done directly by Git (e.g., git push, git fetch).

For Gerrit API calls, depot_tools uses git-credential-luci out of the box, but for Git, you need to modify your Git configuration to use git-credential-luci.

GIT CONFIGURATION

You need to configure Git to authenticate to Gerrit. While depot_tools can help set up the necessary configuration (git cl creds-check), you can also do it manually.

You need to add the following lines to your Git config:

    [credential "https://chromium.googlesource.com"]
    helper =
    helper = luci
    useHttpPath = yes

This tells Git to use git-credential-luci. The first empty value line is needed to reset the helper list to prevent conflicts.

You should copy this for each Gerrit host you use.

For Googlers, see go/chrome-gerrit-auth.

CREDENTIAL HELPER

git-credential-luci is a Git credential helper that can provide OAuth credentials for Gerrit.

You will need to set up your OAuth credentials first by running git-credential-luci login. After that, it will be able to provide credentials to authenticate Git commands, if you have configured it according to the previous section.

git-credential-luci only keeps one active login session at a time per OS user.

CHROMIUM DEPOT_TOOLS

Part of the chromium depot_tools(7) suite. These tools are meant to assist with the development of chromium and related projects. Download the tools by checking out the git repository[1].

NOTES

1.  git repository
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git