Gerrit (software)
| Company type | Web application |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development |
| Products | Code review tool |
| Owner | |
| Website | www |
Gerrit () represents a complimentary web application designed to facilitate team-based code review and collaborative development. It allows programmers to examine, endorse, or decline modifications to source code through a web browser, offering tight integration with Git, a distributed version control platform.
As a fork derived from Rietveld, a code review utility tailored for Subversion, Gerrit shares its namesake with Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld.
History
Initially developed using Python like its predecessor Rietveld, Gerrit shifted to Java (Java EE Servlet) starting with version 2, incorporating SQL capabilities and later introducing a proprietary Git-based storage system called NoteDb in version 3.
The user interface of Gerrit's browser front-end employed Google Web Toolkit from versions 2.0 through 2.16. Development of a new web UI utilizing the Polymer framework commenced between versions 2.14 and 2.16, ultimately replacing the GWT interface in the release of version 3.0.