Gerrit SSH interface status and "SSH API" replacement?

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Shawn,

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:12:24 -0700
Shawn Pearce <sop at google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:41, Paul Sokolovsky
> <paul.sokolovsky at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Now that Google itself doesn't use SSH interface to Gerrit
> > (https://android-review.googlesource.com/ssh_info), does it mean
> > that SSH interface is deprecated,
> 
> No, it isn't deprecated. The SSH interface is too useful for
> end-users, administrators, etc.

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Thanks for the detailed explanation, Shawn, much appreciated.

[]

> > Well, what we'd need right now is
> > analog of "gerrit ls-projects", i.e. a stable, machine-readable way
> > to get a list of projects in AOSP Gerrit. Any hints?
> 
> AOSP maintains an additional manifest file that lists every project...
> because ls-projects isn't (yet) available over HTTP. ls-projects has
> to be one of the simpler SSH commands... and patches are always be
> appreciated.  :-)

We need this to automatically pull new AOSP projects to our mirror at
http://android.git.linaro.org , and just had some old code using
ls-projects which worked at kernel.org times. It probably makes sense
to just rewrite it to use a manifest instead, especially if there's
one maintained to list all projects, so it won't take parsing multiple
manifests in multiple branches.


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Best Regards,
Paul

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