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Re: [PATCH] quiltimport: Skip non-existent patches

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
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?

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Message 5 of 9 in “git-quiltimport and non-existent patches”
  1. Geert UytterhoevenSep 27, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  3. quiltimport: Skip non-existent patchesDan Nicholson, Sep 27, 2007
  4. Dan NicholsonSep 27, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  6. Dan NicholsonSep 27, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  8. Dan NicholsonSep 27, 2007
  9. Geert UytterhoevenSep 28, 2007

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