Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 03/12] git p4: remove submit failure options [a]pply and [w]rite

From: Luke Diamand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:52:19 +0100

git-p4 won't be quite the same without these completely misleading and 
confusing messages :-)

Ack.

On 09/09/12 21:16, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> When a patch failed to apply, these interactive options offered
> to:
>
>      1) apply the patch anyway, leaving reject (.rej) files around, or,
>      2) write the patch to a file (patch.txt)
>
> In both cases it suggested to invoke "git p4 submit --continue",
> an unimplemented option.
>
> While manually fixing the rejects and submitting the result might
> work, there are many steps that must be done to the job properly:
>
>      * apply patch
>      * invoke p4 add and delete
>      * change executable bits
>      * p4 sync -f renamed/copied files
>      * extract commit message into p4 change description and
>        move Jobs lines out of description section
>      * set changelist owner for --preserve-user
>
> Plus the following manual sync/rebase will cause conflicts too,
> which must be resolved once again.
>
> Drop these workflows.  Instead users should do a sync/rebase in
> git, fix the conflicts there, and do a clean "git p4 submit".
>
> Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff<[email-masked]>
> ---
>   git-p4.py | 20 ++------------------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index 2405f38..e08fea1 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -1200,9 +1200,8 @@ class P4Submit(Command, P4UserMap):
>           if not patch_succeeded:
>               print "What do you want to do?"
>               response = "x"
> -            while response != "s" and response != "a" and response != "w":
> -                response = raw_input("[s]kip this patch / [a]pply the patch forcibly "
> -                                     "and with .rej files / [w]rite the patch to a file (patch.txt) ")
> +            while response != "s":
> +                response = raw_input("[s]kip this patch ")
>               if response == "s":
>                   print "Skipping! Good luck with the next patches..."
>                   for f in editedFiles:
> @@ -1210,21 +1209,6 @@ class P4Submit(Command, P4UserMap):
>                   for f in filesToAdd:
>                       os.remove(f)
>                   return False
> -            elif response == "a":
> -                os.system(applyPatchCmd)
> -                if len(filesToAdd)>  0:
> -                    print "You may also want to call p4 add on the following files:"
> -                    print " ".join(filesToAdd)
> -                if len(filesToDelete):
> -                    print "The following files should be scheduled for deletion with p4 delete:"
> -                    print " ".join(filesToDelete)
> -                die("Please resolve and submit the conflict manually and "
> -                    + "continue afterwards with git p4 submit --continue")
> -            elif response == "w":
> -                system(diffcmd + ">  patch.txt")
> -                print "Patch saved to patch.txt in %s !" % self.clientPath
> -                die("Please resolve and submit the conflict manually and "
> -                    "continue afterwards with git p4 submit --continue")
>
>           system(applyPatchCmd)
>