gitUrl support for Gerrit

[spmiller]

Our local Gerrit server has disabled HTTPS clone operations. We have to use SSH to clone, and Gerrit has a helpful link to do this in the web UI in the General tab.

I would like the existing Gerrit platform support to read the server config to see what download schemes are supported, and use ssh if configured by the existing gitUrl parameter.

I have a fork that has implemented this, which seems to work well: https://github.com/spmiller/renovate/tree/feat-gerrit-gitUrl

I can see that @felipecrs has some Gerrit WIP, and I don't want to step on any toes. Is this change something that would be suitable for a PR?

[felipecrs]

Supporting gitUrl: 'ssh' for Gerrit would be great!

I'm just not sure a new API request is worth it. We could construct the URL based on what user provides via gitUrl and let it fail if not supported as it normally would. Just a thought, though

Anyway, definitely send a PR. I do have other PRs that would likely conflict, but we can sort it out depending on whichever is merged first.

[spmiller]

Thanks for the quick response @felipecrs!

The reason I think we have to use an API request to get the clone URL is because (at least on our server) the port is non-standard.

I'll send the PR now, happy to work through conflicts with you if/when that happens.

[felipecrs]

The reason I think we have to use an API request to get the clone URL is because (at least on our server) the port is non-standard.

Meaning it's not 29418?

[spmiller]

Oh, you're right, it is the default. I saw sshd.listenAddress and didn't check the default value.

I can remove that part of the code if required -- the PR is #42672 so feel free to leave comments there too.

[felipecrs]

How about removing that part of the code for now?

It can be proposed separately as a future enhancement if later some real use-case for it arises.

It would also make it simpler to review.

[spmiller]

Yup, sounds good. Will update the PR asap.

[spmiller]

PR updated!

[marquisesenior383-ctrl]

No

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