To submit patches to Gerrit, the change must first be committed locally, and the remote repository pointed to Gerrit. Then the change can be pushed and the builds triggered.
When committing for the first time, Git will ask for a user name and an e-mail address. That's because changes in Git are associated with a name and e-mail address and nothing else. In Eclipse, triggering a commit will bring up a dialog asking for these details; alternatively they can be specified in the Preferences | Team | Git | Configuration panel under the
user.nameanduser.emailvalues. Alternatively the git command line can be used to set them, using:$ git config --global user.name "My Name" $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
The change can be committed in Eclipse by right-clicking on the project (or folder) and choosing Team | Commit. This will show a dialog or view of information where the details can be entered. The general Eclipse practice...