[I'm keeping you in Cc since you don't appear to be subscribed to this mailing list.] On 2021-03-22 15:00:03 +0000 (+0000), Chouchen, Moataz wrote: [...]
I extracted the revision IDs for the first and the last revisions (supposed to be first and last commit hashes) for each code review in puppet projects. However, when we have more than one revision, we were unable to find the commits for the first revision in the git for all the projects and we only have commits data for the last revision. I would like to know if the commit of the first revision does exist in the CVS, and it's possible to extract? [...]
Conveniently, Gerrit stores all of this in the repository and we replicate it to our Git server farm. The complication is that, because of the amend/rebase-oriented nature of Gerrit's code review workflow, those earlier revisions don't appear in the branch history. Instead, they are tracked with named references which look like changes/XX/YYYY/Z where YYYY is the numeric index identifier for the change, XX is the last two digits of YYYY (for sharding purposes), and Z is the revision number starting from 1. Let's take this puppet-nova change as an example: https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-nova/commit/d385ca8 There you can see Gitea is displaying an indicator that there is a named ref of changes/63/764763/5 associated with the commit. That means it was revision 5 of change 764763 in Gerrit. You can fetch that ref like so: git fetch origin changes/63/764763/5 That will fill FETCH_HEAD which you can then use with checkout, show, or any other relevant subcommands. Conveniently, if you instead want the first revision of 764763, all you have to do differently is adjust the revision number: git fetch origin changes/63/764763/1 Hopefully that's what you're looking for? -- Jeremy Stanley