Re: [PATCH] devtools: make commits with stable tag outstanding

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:13:28PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2017-02-23 10:49, Yuanhan Liu:
> > So that, as a stable maintainer while picking commits to a stable release,
> > I could pay less attention to those have it and pay more attention to those
> > don't have it.
> 
> Good idea 
> 
> > +	stable="-"
> > +	git show $id | grep -qi 'Cc: .*stable@dpdk.org' && stable="S"
> 
> Instead of git show, it is preferrable to get only the message content:
> 	git log --format='%b' -1 $id
> 
> The regex may miss a Cc: without space, and may match a Cc in the middle
> of a sentence.
> I suggest this one:
> 	grep -qi '^Cc: *stable@dpdk.org'
> 
> The script is written in the style "set -e" so it must be avoided to have
> a "false" statement not catched.
> It can be done in 2 ways:
> 
> 1/
> git log --format='%b' -1 $id | grep -qi '^Cc: *stable@dpdk.org' && stable='S' || stable='-'
> 
> 2/
> if git log --format='%b' -1 $id | grep -qi '^Cc: *stable@dpdk.org' ; then
> 	stable='S'
> else
> 	stable='-'
> endif
> 
> We can also move it in a function in order to keep only the logic in the
> "main" block:
> 	stable=$(stable_tag $id)

Looks good. Will send v2 soon.

Thanks.

	--yliu
> 
> # print a marker for stable tag presence
> stable_tag () # <hash>
> {
> 	if git log --format='%b' -1 $id | grep -qi '^Cc: *stable@dpdk.org' ; then
> 		echo 'S'
> 	else
> 		echo '-'
> 	endif
> }