Customizing Gitar: Repository rules and review instructions

20 minutes to complete

Overview

This course teaches you how to customize Gitar's default review behavior to match your team's specific standards. You'll learn to write custom rules, enable predefined rules from the catalog, add project-specific review instructions, and troubleshoot your customizations.

Learning objectives

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

  • Write a custom rule that automates a review task
  • Scope a rule so it only evaluates on the files that matter
  • Add custom review instructions to reflect your project's conventions
  • Combine multiple actions in a single rule
  • Interpret a rule evaluation result
  • Troubleshoot a rule that isn't firing as expected

Key topics

  • Custom rules
  • Custom review instructions

Target audience

  • Developer
  • Administrator
  • DevOps engineer

Prerequisites

  • A Gitar organization account with a repository already connected
  • Admin permission or Write access permission to that repository
  • Familiarity with Gitar's core review workflow