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Bug 360787

Summary:	GerritClientImpl: Implement projectExists() with "ls-remote" command
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Michael Ochmann <michael.ochmann>
Component:	Skalli	Assignee:	Project Inbox <skalli.extensions-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Michael Ochmann

2011-10-13 06:07:47 EDT

Edwin Kempin from the Gerrit team says:

"For checking whether a certain Gerrit project exists, you could use the
'ls-remote' command.

$ git ls-remote ssh://<repo> HEAD
<some-commitid> HEAD   
=> project exists

$ git ls-remote ssh://<repo> HEAD
fatal: '/non-existing-project.git': not a Gerrit project
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
=> project does not exist

That should improve the performance considerably compared to retrieving all projects with 'ls-projects' first and then iterating through that list to find out whether a project exists."

Comment 1 Michael Ochmann

2012-02-13 04:38:40 EST

would require native git installation on Gerrit server