Re: [PATCH] hg-to-git: do not include the branch name as the first line of commit msg

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com>
> ---
>  contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py b/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> index 7a1c3e4..6bff49b 100755
> --- a/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> +++ b/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ for cset in range(int(tip) + 1):
>          mparent = None
>  
>      (fdcomment, filecomment) = tempfile.mkstemp()
> -    csetcomment = os.popen('hg log -r %d -v | grep -v ^changeset: | grep -v ^parent: | grep -v ^user: | grep -v ^date | grep -v ^files: | grep -v ^description: | grep -v ^tag:' % cset).read().strip()
> +    csetcomment = os.popen('hg log -r %d -v | grep -v ^changeset: | grep -v ^parent: | grep -v ^user: | grep -v ^date | grep -v ^files: | grep -v ^description: | grep -v ^tag: | grep -v ^branch:' % cset).read().strip()
>      os.write(fdcomment, csetcomment)
>      os.close(fdcomment)

Isn't this one of the ugliest lines in the whole git.git project, I have
to wonder?

I also wonder missing colon after "date" is a bug from the original
version, and assuming that it is, how about doing something less error
prone like this?

        def included(line):
            keywords = ('changeset', 'parent', 'user', 'date', 'files',
                        'description', 'tag', 'branch')
            for kw in keywords:
                if line.startswith(kw + ':'):
                    return 0
            return 1

        hglog = os.popen('hg log -r %d -v' % cset).read();
        csetcomment = '\n'.join(filter(included, hglog.split('\n'))).strip()

If you are excluding _all_ of the <word>: header lines, the "included"
function may have to become cleverer but much simpler by doing something
like:

	import re
	header_re = re.compile(r'^\w+:')
	def included(line):
        	return not header_re.match(line)