[webkit-dev] webkit-patch, check-webkit-style and git now support --squash and --git-commit

[Kenneth Christiansen]

Nice work Ojan,

Will you make webkit-patch apply-attachment understand patches doing
renames/mv created with git format-patch? That would be really useful.

Cheers,
Kenneth

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
> The behavior of git and webkit-patch changed with
> http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/58261.
> Many webkit-patch commands (e.g. upload and land) and check-webkit-style now
> take --squash and --git-commit arguments.
> --git-commit: upload, commit, check-style, etc on the given git commit(s).
> Commits can be specified as single commits (e.g. HEAD^) or mulitiple
> (e.g. HEAD~2..HEAD). check-webkit-style's sense of --git-commit is no longer
> all patches since the commit and --git-since is removed. The equivalent to
> the old check-webkit-style behavior is "--git-commit=HEAD~2.." instead of
> just using HEAD~2.
> --squash: Treat all changes in the local branch as a single patch (local
> commits + working copy changes). Doesn't actually modify your tree until you
> land, at which point it squashes all local changes into a single local
> commit and then lands that.
> --no-squash: Treat all changes as separate. This is essentially just "git
> svn dcommit". Each local change is committed separately.
> If you leave out --squash and --no-squash, then something resembling the old
> behavior is used.
> old-behavior: upload, diff, create-patch, etc. only considered working-copy
> changes and land will commit working-copy changes and then commit each local
> commit separately.
> new-behavior: is roughly like the above, except if there's only a single
> local commit and no working-copy changes, then the commands will work on
> that single local commit and otherwise raise an error.
> Eventually, I'd like to make --squash the default, but I want this to bake
> and get some usage before flipping that switch.
> Finally, if you get sick of typing --squash or --no-squash, you can set the
> webkit-patch.squash git config parameter to true/false.
> Ojan
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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
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