The git config parameter log.decorate is quite useful when working with git. Patman, however can not handle the decorated output when parsing the commit. To prevent this use the '--no-decorate' switch for git-log.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann andreas.devel@googlemail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@ti.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
Since this is required for me to get patman working it would be great to have this trivial change in the upcoming release.
tools/patman/gitutil.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/patman/gitutil.py b/tools/patman/gitutil.py index f485750..8b61410 100644 --- a/tools/patman/gitutil.py +++ b/tools/patman/gitutil.py @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ def CountCommitsToBranch(): Return: Number of patches that exist on top of the branch """ - pipe = [['git', 'log', '--no-color', '--oneline', '@{upstream}..'], + pipe = [['git', 'log', '--no-color', '--oneline', '--no-decorate', + '@{upstream}..'], ['wc', '-l']] stdout = command.RunPipe(pipe, capture=True, oneline=True).stdout patch_count = int(stdout)