Re: [PATCH] quiltimport: Skip non-existent patches
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Sep 27, 2007, 20:50 UTC
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Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> writes:
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> Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> When quiltimport encounters a non-existent patch in the series file, >> just skip to the next patch. This matches the behavior of quilt. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists <at> gmail.com> >> --- >> git-quiltimport.sh | 4 ++++ >> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/git-quiltimport.sh b/git-quiltimport.sh >> index 74a54d5..880c81d 100755 >> --- a/git-quiltimport.sh >> +++ b/git-quiltimport.sh >> @@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) >> >> mkdir $tmp_dir || exit 2 >> for patch_name in $(grep -v '^#' < "$QUILT_PATCHES/series" ); do >> + if ! [ -f "$QUILT_PATCHES/$patch_name" ] ; then >> + echo "$patch_name doesn't exist. Skipping." >> + continue >> + fi >> echo $patch_name >> git mailinfo "$tmp_msg" "$tmp_patch" \ >> <"$QUILT_PATCHES/$patch_name" >"$tmp_info" || exit 3 > > > I forgot to mention the rationale for this patch vs. what Junio sent. The issue > with Junio's patch is that the failure will occur before $tmp_patch is created > because the script tries to feed git-mailinfo a non-existent patch > ($patch_name). You'll only get past the mailinfo if $patch_name exists. > > The marker setting may still be useful in this context, though, to suppress the > "doesn't exist" message.
Thanks. I did not know what "marker" meant by the original context and assumed there is a file referred to by the series file but there is no patch in that file. Instead it seems that a series file can contain something that is _not_ a file and that is called the marker, right?