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."