Basics of Git and Gerrit | Git & Gerrit Overview | Git and Gerrit Concept

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As per British English, Git means “unpleasant person”. The inspiration of designing Git is taken from “BitKeeper” and “Monotone”.

Both are distributed revision control system. Git was originally designed as a low level version control system engine and on top of this Cogito and StGIT(Stacked Git) is developed. StGIT is a Python application that provides functionality similar to quilt.

Git is a highly performant free and open source distributed version control system as compare and contrast to other centralized version control systems such as CVS, SVN, ClearCase, and Perforce.

It was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development in 2005.
As per the analysis corresponding to Eclipse IDE users, Git has reported 30% adoption as of 2013 in software industry for VCS(Version Control System)/RCS(Revision Control System)/SCM(Source code management).
The Stable release of Git is released on August 23, 2013 which is of version 1.8.4. Its Initial release was introduced in the 7^th april 2005 . Originally Git is developed in “C”.

It is developed with a git based workflow in mind. It acts as a firewall in front of a Git repository.

Software developers working in a team can review each other’s changes/modifications on their source code using a web browser and approve or reject those changes.

Gerrit works on “Change”s. A change is a set of modifications to various files in your repository to accomplish a task. It is essentially one large git commit with all the necessary changes which can be both built and tested.

It was developed at Google by Shawn Pearce (founder of JGit) for the development of the Android project. Gerrit uses Google Web Toolkit to generate front-end JavaScript code from Java source.

Gerrit centralizes the distributed nature of Git, while maintaining the advantages of a DVCS, by imposing a centralized workflow.

Large corporations such as SAP, Sony Mobile, Qualcomm and many other enterprises, organisations and non affiliated individuals/volunteers contributed to the review and development of the code-base.

The Stable release of Gerrit is released on September 18, 2013 which is of version 2.7.

Originally this tool was written in Python and now this tool is written in Java, Servlet and GWT.

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