# Gertty, console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system

Gertty is a console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system.

As compared to the web interface, the main advantages are:

* Workflow -- the interface is designed to support a workflow similar
  to reading network news or mail. In particular, it is designed to
  deal with a large number of review requests across a large number of
  projects.

* Offline Use -- Gertty syncs information about changes in subscribed
  projects to a local database and local git repos. All review
  operations are performed against that database and then synced back
  to Gerrit.

* Speed -- user actions modify locally cached content and need not
  wait for server interaction.

* Convenience -- because Gertty downloads all changes to local git
  repos, a single command instructs it to checkout a change into that
  repo for detailed examination or testing of larger changes.

This presentation will provide an overview and demonstration of
Gertty, as well as some discussion about Gerrit's excellent REST API.

*[James E. Blair, Red Hat](../speakers.md#corvus)*