Gerrit uses Closure Templates (Soy) for the bulk of the standard mails it sends out. There are builtin default templates which are used if they are not overridden. These defaults are also provided as examples so that administrators may copy them and easily modify them to tweak their contents.
Compatibility Note: previously, Velocity Template Language (VTL) was used as the template language for Gerrit emails. VTL has now been deprecated in favor of Soy, but Velocity templates that modify text emails remain supported for now.
Template Locations and Extensions:
The default example templates reside under: '$site_path'/etc/mail
and are
terminated with the double extension .soy.example
. Modifying these example
files will have no effect on the behavior of Gerrit. However, copying an
example template to an equivalently named file without the .example
extension
and modifying it will allow an administrator to customize the template.
Supported Mail Templates:
Each mail that Gerrit sends out is controlled by at least one template. These
are listed below. Change emails are influenced by two additional templates,
one to set the subject line, and one to set the footer which gets appended to
all the change emails (see ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.soy
below.)
Many types of Gerrit email message support HTML in addition to plain-text. Where
both are supported, templates to control the HTML part have …Html
appended
in their file names. For example, for "Abandoned" emails, the Abandoned.soy
template determines the text part of the message, whereas AbandonedHtml.soy
determines the HTML part.
Abandoned.soy and AbandonedHtml.soy
The "Abandoned" templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
change being abandoned. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and
ChangeFooter.
AddKey.soy and AddKeyHtml.soy
AddKey templates will determine the contents of the email related to SSH and GPG keys being added to a user account. This notification is not sent when the key is administratively added to another user account.
ChangeFooter.soy and ChangeFooterHtml.soy
The ChangeFooter templates will determine the contents of the footer that will be appended to emails related to changes (all `ChangeEmail`s).
ChangeSubject.soy
The ChangeSubject.soy
template will determine the contents of the email
subject line for ALL emails related to changes.
Comment.soy
The Comment.soy
template will determine the contents of the email related to
a user submitting comments on changes. It is a ChangeEmail
: see
ChangeSubject.soy
, ChangeFooter and CommentFooter.
CommentFooter.soy and CommentFooterHtml.soy
The CommentFooter templates will determine the contents of the footer text that
will be appended to emails related to a user submitting comments on changes.
See ChangeSubject.soy
, Comment and ChangeFooter.
DeleteVote.soy and DeleteVoteHtml.soy
The DeleteVote templates will determine the contents of the email related to
removing votes on changes. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.
DeleteReviewer.soy and DeleteReviewerHtml.soy
The DeleteReviewer templates will determine the contents of the email related to
a user removing a reviewer (with a vote) from a change. It is a
ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.
Footer.soy and FooterHtml.soy
The Footer templates will determine the contents of the footer text appended to the end of all outgoing emails after the ChangeFooter and CommentFooter.
Merged.soy and MergedHtml.soy
The Merged templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
change successfully merged to the head. It is a ChangeEmail
: see
ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.
NewChange.soy and NewChangeHtml.soy
The NewChange templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
user submitting a new change for review. This includes changes created by
actions made by the user in the Web UI such as cherry picking a commit or
reverting a change. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and
ChangeFooter.
RegisterNewEmail.soy
The RegisterNewEmail.soy
template will determine the contents of the email
related to registering new email accounts.
ReplacePatchSet.soy and ReplacePatchSetHtml.soy
The ReplacePatchSet templates will determine the contents of the email related
to a user submitting a new patchset for a change. This includes patchsets
created by actions made by the user in the Web UI such as editing the commit
message, cherry picking a commit, or rebasing a change. It is a ChangeEmail
:
see ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.
Restored.soy and RestoredHtml.soy
The Restored templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
change being restored. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and
ChangeFooter.
Reverted.soy and RevertedHtml.soy
The Reverted templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
change being reverted. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and
ChangeFooter.
SetAssignee.soy and SetAssigneeHtml.soy
The SetAssignee templates will determine the contents of the email related to a
user being assigned to a change. It is a ChangeEmail
: see ChangeSubject.soy
and ChangeFooter.
Mail Variables and Methods
Mail templates can access and display objects currently made available to them via the Soy context.
Warning
Be aware that modifying templates can cause them to fail to parse and therefore not send out the actual email.
All OutgoingEmails
All outgoing emails have the following variables available to them:
- $email.settingsUrl
-
The URL to view the user’s settings in the Gerrit web UI.
- $email.gerritHost
-
The name of the Gerrit instance.
- $email.gerritUrl
-
The URL to the Gerrit web UI.
- $messageClass
-
A String containing the messageClass.
Change Emails
Change related emails have the following template data available to them, in addition to what’s available to all outgoing emails.
- $changeId
-
Id of the current change (a
Change.Key
). - $coverLetter
-
The text of the
ChangeMessage
. - $fromName
-
The name of the from user.
- $email.unifiedDiff
-
The diff of the change.
- $email.changeDetail
-
The details of the change, including the commit message.
- $email.changeUrl
-
The URL to the change in the web UI.
- $email.includeDiff
-
Whether the Gerrit instance is configured to include diffs in emails.
- $change.subject
-
The subject of the current change.
- $change.originalSubject
-
The subject corresponding to the first patch set of the current change.
- $change.shortSubject
-
The subject limited to 63 characters, with an ellipsis if it exceeds that.
- $change.ownerEmail
-
The email address of the owner of the change.
- $branch.shortName
-
The name of the branch targeted by the current change.
- $projectName
-
The name of this change’s project.
- $shortProjectName
-
The project name with the path abbreviated.
- $sshHost
-
SSH hostname for the Gerrit instance.
- $patchSet.patchSetId
-
The current patch set number.
- $patchSet.refname
-
The refname of the patch set.
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