Tips and Tricks

SSH Tuning

Add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host gerrit.lix.systems
    User YOUR_GERRIT_USERNAME
    Port 2022
    # Keep sessions open for a bit in the background to make connections faster:
    ControlMaster auto
    ControlPath /tmp/ssh-%r@%h:%p
    ControlPersist 120

Now you can use ssh://gerrit.lix.systems/lix instead of ssh://USERNAME@gerrit.lix.systems:2022/lix URL, and have faster iterations on a change!

Splitting Commits

Sometimes a commit that was supposed to be a single feature gets out of hand. You have options. git rebase -i is a "default" suggestion, but you might want to look at git-revise or even at Jujutsu, which has a pretty cool squash workflow to do this!