Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: kde-base/kdepim-icons/

[hasufell]

On 08/09/2015 08:59 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> On Sunday 09 August 2015 20:42:00 hasufell wrote:
>> So, now we have 21 commits with the exact same commit message:
>> =====
>> Stable for amd64, wrt bug #556974
>> =====
>>
>> At that point, it's even debatable to have separate commits.
>>
>> IMO, if you stabilize a huge chunk of ebuilds, you have two possibilities:
>>
>> 1. just make it one giant commit (we don't revert stabilizations
>> anyway)... if it's category-based, start the commit message with
>> =====
>> kde-base: stable after dev-qt/qtgui bump for ia64
>> =====
>> if it is related to a particular package (e.g. a bump of dev-lang/ruby
>> and very closely related packages that span across multiple categories)
>> start it with
>> =====
>> dev-lang/ruby: stabilize for ia64 including reverse dependencies
>> =====
>> or somesuch (which is still not very nice, but better)
>>
>> 2. Have a sensical commit message for each saparate commit. E.g., make a
>> local bash hack that automatically prepends "category/pn" to your commit
>> message (I think zlogene has done that already) and hope for bug
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557148 to get more attention.
>> This is better than mass commits if it can be sensibly automated.
>>
>>
>> Anyway. 21 commits with the same message is really confusing. I can see
>> that arch teams might have the most trouble with commit methods, becasue
>> they have the highest commit rate, but we have to improve this.
>
> Since the repoman commit was done per package, I guess the feature requested
> in bug 557148 should fix this type of issue.
>
>

There's no reason to wait for that. You can automate that
with awk/bash/sed whatever too.

in bashrc e.g.:

cat_pn() {
	awk -F/ '{print $(NF-1) "/" $(NF)}' <<<"${PWD}"
}

and then from within the ebuild directories:

repoman commit -m "$(cat_pn): stable for amd64"