Re: [PATCH] Git-p4: git-p4.changeOnSubmit to do 'change' instead of 'submit'.

[Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>]

On 17/10/11 17:18, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Anyway, the other suggestion I had was to create a new command
> instead of overriding behaviour of an existing one. Of course,
> copy-pasting P4Submit into P4Change is silly, so...
>
> How about something like this?
>
> The commands dict maps command name to class and optional dict passed to cmd.run(). That way 'change'
> can really mean P4Submit with an extra parameter not to submit but to do a changelist instead. The
> reason why I initially made the config flag was because I didn't want to copy-paste P4Submit into P4Change.
>
> commands = {
>      "debug" : [ P4Debug, {} ]
>      "submit" : [ P4Submit, { "doChange" : 0 } ]
>      "commit" : [ P4Submit, { "doChange" : 0 } ]
>      "change" : [ P4Submit, { "doChange" : 1 } ]
>      "sync" : [ P4Sync, {} ],
>      "rebase" : [ P4Rebase, {} ],
>      "clone" : [ P4Clone, {} ],
>      "rollback" : [ P4RollBack, {} ],
>      "branches" : [ P4Branches, {} ]
> }
>
> Thanks for the review,
> A
>

Sounds plausible to me. The alternative would be a command line 
parameter, although that could get annoying and error prone, especially 
as you can't easily unsubmit a perforce change.