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+# Origin Story
+
+## Google Mondrian
+
+Google developed [Mondrian], a Perforce based code review tool to
+facilitate peer-review of changes prior to submission to the central
+code repository. Mondrian is not open source, as it is tied to the
+use of [Perforce] and to many Google-only services, such as
+[Bigtable]. Google employees have often described how useful Mondrian
+and its peer-review process is to their day-to-day work.
+
+[Mondrian]: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502904076440714866
+[Perforce]: http://www.perforce.com/
+[Bigtable]: http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html
+[Rietveld]: http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
+
+## Rietveld
+
+Guido van Rossum open sourced portions of Mondrian within [Rietveld],
+a similar code review tool running on Google App Engine, but for use
+with Subversion rather than Perforce. Rietveld is in common use by
+many open source projects, facilitating their peer reviews much as
+Mondrian does for Google employees. Unlike Mondrian and the Google
+Perforce triggers, Rietveld is strictly advisory and does not enforce
+peer-review prior to submission.
+
+## Gitosis and Gitolite
+
+Git is a distributed version control system, wherein each repository
+is assumed to be owned/maintained by a single user. There are no
+inherent security controls built into Git, so the ability to read from
+or write to a repository is controlled entirely by the host's
+filesystem access controls. When multiple maintainers collaborate on
+a single shared repository a high degree of trust is required, as any
+collaborator with write access can alter the repository.
+
+[Gitosis] and [Gitolite] provide tools to secure centralized Git
+repositories, permitting multiple maintainers to manage the same
+project at once, by restricting the access to only over a secure
+network protocol, much like Perforce secures a repository by only
+permitting access over its network port.
+
+[Gitosis]: https://github.com/tv42/gitosis
+[Gitolite]: http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html
+
+## Android
+
+The [Android Open Source Project][AOSP] (AOSP) was founded by Google
+by the open source releasing of the Android operating system. AOSP
+has selected Git as its primary version control tool. As many of the
+engineers have a background of working with Mondrian at Google, there
+is a strong desire to have the same (or better) feature set available
+for Git and AOSP.
+
+[AOSP]: http://source.android.com/
+
+## The Rietveld fork
+
+Gerrit Code Review started as a simple set of patches to Rietveld, and
+was originally built to service AOSP. This quickly turned into a fork
+as we added access control features that Guido van Rossum did not want
+to see complicating the Rietveld code base. As the functionality and
+code were starting to become drastically different, a different name
+was needed. Gerrit calls back to the original namesake of Rietveld,
+[Gerrit Rietveld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Rietveld), a
+Dutch architect.
+
+## Gerrit 2.x rewrite
+
+Gerrit 2.x is a complete rewrite of the Gerrit fork, changing the
+implementation from Python on Google App Engine, to Java on a J2EE
+servlet container and a SQL database.
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+# Code Review for Git
+
+Gerrit provides web based code review and repository management for
+the [Git][git] version control system.
+
+[git]: http://git-scm.com/
+
+|||---||| 2,2,2,3,:1,2
+
+
+## Discuss code
+and boost your team's code fu by talking about specifics.
+
+## Serve Git
+as an integrated experience within the larger code review flow.
+
+## Manage workflows
+with deeply integrated and delegatable access controls.
+
+*** promo
+## Download
+[Gerrit 2.10](https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.10.html)
+***
+|||---|||
+
+--
+
+## Discuss code
+
+Read old and new versions of files with syntax highlighting and
+colored differences. Discuss specific sections with others to make
+the right changes.
+
+
+
+--
+
+## Manage and serve Git repositories
+
+Gerrit includes Git-enabled SSH and HTTPS servers compatible with all
+Git clients. Simplify management by hosting many Git repositories
+together.
+
+
+
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+# Gerrit Code Review
+
+* [Home][home]
+* About
+* [Documentation](https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.11/index.html)
+* [Download](http://gerrit-releases.storage.googleapis.com/index.html)
+* [Issues](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list)
+* [Source](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/)
+* [Reviews](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:open+project:gerrit)
+
+[home]: /index.md
+[logo]: images/diffy45.png
