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Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow running mklog as a filter


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Trevor Saunders <tsaunders@mozilla.com> wrote:

>> >+# In any case if we got the diff on stdin then write the ChangeLog to stdout.
>>
>> Hm, this is breaks semantics: you only dump CL instead of CL+diff just
>> because diff comes from stdin. Perhaps we could append contents of
>> @diff_lines here?
>
>  I agree stdin gets different semantics than other files but I think
>  that's sort of ok because it means you generated the patch somehow so
>  presumably you can do that again if you need the patch.  Writing the
>  diff to stdout seems possible, but atleast for my use cases its
>  annoying, but I guess I'm open to adding a flag or something.

I slightly prefer the semantics that gets me just the ChangeLog. The
workflow I'm envisioning is:

$ cat mypatch | mklog > message.txt

Diego.

>
>> >+if ($diff == "-") {
>>
>> This will work but 'eq' is preferred way to compare strings.
>
> oh perl

Indeed. I've always regretted writing this in perl.  A python version
would be so much more pleasant to maintain.

OK with Yuri's suggestion of assuming '-' when ARGV is empty.


Diego.


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