How can I push a commit in gerrit branch locally with topic branch and reviewers

Question

For eg, I have two branches in my Gerrit

helen/test1
helen/test2

We usually use the below command to push the commit to remote with reviewers and topic.

git push origin HEAD:refs/for/test2%topic=drive,r=helen@o.com

How can I do the above locally

Answer 1

You can't do that.

Only Gerrit can "understand" correctly the "refs/for" branch prefix and the "%topic=drive,r=helen@o.com" branch suffix. The prefix tells Gerrit that you want to create a change review and the suffix says you want to set the topic name and add a reviewer to the change. Git itself doesn't know anything about these configurations and it will mess with your push command.