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Getting your ReviewBoard Account

Go to https://reviews.apache.org and create an account.

Setting up your ReviewBoard Environment

Run ./rbt status. The first time this runs it will bootstrap and you will be asked to login. Subsequent runs will cache your login credentials.

Submitting a Patch for Review

Post a review with rbt, fill out the fields in your browser and hit Publish.

./rbt post -o -g

Updating an Existing Review

Incorporate review feedback, make some more commits, update your existing review, fill out the fields in your browser and hit Publish.

./rbt post -o -r <RB_ID>

Merging Your Own Review (Committers)

Once you have shipits from the right committers, merge your changes in a single commit and mark the review as submitted. The typical workflow is:

git checkout master
git pull origin master
./rbt patch -c <RB_ID>  # Verify the automatically-generated commit message looks sane,
                        # editing if necessary.
git show master         # Verify everything looks sane
git push origin master
./rbt close <RB_ID>

Note that even if you’re developing using feature branches you will not use git merge - each commit will be an atomic change accompanied by a ReviewBoard entry.

Merging Someone Else’s Review

Sometimes you’ll need to merge someone else’s RB. The typical workflow for this is

git checkout master
git pull origin master
./rbt patch -c <RB_ID>
git show master  # Verify everything looks sane, author is correct
git push origin master