Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] package.deprecated: Create initial template

[Alexis Ballier]

On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 03:23 -0500, Tim Harder wrote:
> On 2019-12-05 Thu 17:00, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > > > pkgcheck is mostly used by your CI checks for
> > > > producing huge reports, which is nice but addresses a different
> > > > problem
> > > There is nothing stopping you from running pkgcheck locally.  In
> > > fact,
> > > it should work out of the box these days.  If you have any
> > > problems,
> > > please report them and I'm sure they will be addressed promptly.
> > Sure I did that to get reports like what CI does for me now but
> > that's
> > always been a different usecase; I wasn't aware pkgcheck had the
> > equivalent of repoman commit
>
> While I dislike contributing more to this off-topic tangent, since
> I've
> fielded this question/request in IRC a few times in the past I figure
> I
> might as well address it again here for the IRC-averse.
>
> Personally I use pkgcheck as a QA tool and *git* (or another vcs
> tool)
> as a commit tool, just like how I used to use repoman and cvs a long
> time ago. I generally dislike when cli tools amalgamate disparate
> features that they weren't designed for so no one has been able to
> convince me why a tool designed to verify ebuilds and their related
> repos should support commit capabilities internally.

it's not just like repoman and cvs since repoman commit did push ;)
it will never be perfect but i really like repoman commit to refuse to
even commit if there's something obviously wrong

as you write below, it's just a matter of checking exit status and
using git, which can be done by scripting, but the script is standard
(*) and mandated to be part of the workflow

it also allows to check or templatize commit messages to follow policy

(*) and force the use of some handy git options like only commit paths
starting from cwd even if other files had been git added, which i never
remember what is the git cli option for this

Alexis.