[PATCH 0/1] combo-layer tool v3

[PATCH 0/1] combo-layer tool v3

[Paul Eggleton]

This is the third version of Yu Ke's combo-layer tool. Changes since v2:
 * Fix splitpatch so that it handles commits that only affect some of the
   components (reports the ones that have been skipped and avoids writing
   out empty patches)
 * A few fixes to the help text & comments


The following changes since commit f05b7ee7716d1e5cc1ba0bbab57e91c3a0569e9e:

  x-load: Update to 1.5.0 (2011-07-05 14:16:33 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib paule/combo-layer-v3
  http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=paule/combo-layer-v3

Yu Ke (1):
  combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

 scripts/combo-layer                 |  366 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh |   13 ++
 scripts/combo-layer.conf.example    |   37 ++++
 3 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/combo-layer
 create mode 100755 scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh
 create mode 100644 scripts/combo-layer.conf.example

-- 
1.7.4.1

[PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Paul Eggleton]

From: Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>

This patch adds the script "combo-layer" to manipulate combo layer
repos. A combo layer repo is a repo containing multiple component
repos, e.g. oe-core, bitbake, BSP repos. The combo layer repo needs to
be updated by syncing with the component repo upstream. This script
is written to assist the combo layer handling.

The combo layer tool provides three functionalities:
- init: when the combo layer repo and component repo does not exist,
  init will "git init" the combo layer repo, and also "git clone" the
  component repos

- update: combo layer tool will pull the latest commit from component
  repo upstream, and apply the commits since last update commit to the
  combo repo. If the user specifies interactive mode(--interactive),
  they can edit the patch list to select which commits to apply.

- splitpatch: split the combo repo commit into separate patches per
  component repo, to facilitate upstream submission.

Combo layer tool uses a config file to define the component repo info.
Please check the combo-layer.conf.example for a detailed explanation
of the config file fields.

Signed-off-by: Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
---
 scripts/combo-layer                 |  366 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh |   13 ++
 scripts/combo-layer.conf.example    |   37 ++++
 3 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/combo-layer
 create mode 100755 scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh
 create mode 100644 scripts/combo-layer.conf.example

diff --git a/scripts/combo-layer b/scripts/combo-layer
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..84cc48f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/combo-layer
@@ -0,0 +1,366 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# ex:ts=4:sw=4:sts=4:et
+# -*- tab-width: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
+#
+# Copyright 2011 Intel Corporation
+# Authored-by:  Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>
+#               Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@intel.com>
+#               Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@intel.com>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+import os, sys
+import optparse
+import logging
+import subprocess
+import ConfigParser
+
+__version__ = "0.1.0"
+
+def logger_create():
+    logger = logging.getLogger("")
+    loggerhandler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    loggerhandler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] %(message)s","%H:%M:%S"))
+    logger.addHandler(loggerhandler)
+    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    return logger
+
+logger = logger_create()
+
+class Configuration(object):
+    """
+    Manages the configuration
+
+    A valid conf looks like:
+
+# component name
+[bitbake]
+
+# mandatory options
+
+# git upstream uri
+src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
+
+# the directory to clone the component repo
+local_repo_dir = ~/src/bitbake
+
+# the relative dir to commit the repo patch
+# use "." if it is root dir
+dest_dir = bitbake
+
+# the updated revision last time.
+# leave it empty if no commit updated yet, and then the tool
+# will start from the first commit
+last_revision =
+
+# optional options
+
+# file_filter: only include the interested file
+# file_filter = [path] [path] ...
+# example:
+#   file_filter = src/  : only include the subdir src
+#   file_filter = src/*.c : only include the src *.c file
+#   file_filter = src/main.c src/Makefile.am : only include these two files
+
+[oe-core]
+src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
+local_repo_dir = ~/src/oecore
+dest_dir = .
+last_revision =
+
+# more components ...
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, options):
+        for key, val in options.__dict__.items():
+            setattr(self, key, val)
+        self.parser = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
+        self.parser.readfp(open(self.conffile))
+        self.repos = {}
+        for repo in self.parser.sections():
+            self.repos[repo] = {}
+            for (name, value) in self.parser.items(repo):
+                self.repos[repo][name] = value
+
+    def update(self, repo, option, value):
+        self.parser.set(repo, option, value)
+        self.parser.write(open(self.conffile, "w"))
+
+    def sanity_check(self):
+        required_options=["src_uri", "local_repo_dir", "dest_dir", "last_revision"]
+        msg = ""
+        for name in self.repos:
+            for option in required_options:
+                if option not in self.repos[name]:
+                    msg = "%s\nOption %s is not defined for component %s" %(msg, option, name)
+        if msg != "":
+            logger.error("configuration file %s has the following error:%s" % (self.conffile,msg))
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        # filterdiff is required by action_splitpatch, so check its availability
+        if subprocess.call("which filterdiff &>/dev/null", shell=True) != 0:
+            logger.error("ERROR: patchutils package is missing, please install it (e.g. # apt-get install patchutils)")
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+def runcmd(cmd,destdir=None):
+    """
+        execute command, raise CalledProcessError if fail
+        return output if succeed
+    """
+    logger.debug("run cmd '%s' in %s" % (cmd, os.getcwd() if destdir is None else destdir))
+    out = os.tmpfile()
+    try:
+        subprocess.check_call(cmd, stdout=out, stderr=out, cwd=destdir, shell=True)
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError,e:
+        out.seek(0)
+        logger.error("%s" % out.read())
+        raise e
+
+    out.seek(0)
+    output = out.read()
+    logger.debug("output: %s" % output )
+    return output
+
+def action_init(conf, args):
+    """
+        Clone component repositories
+        Check git initialised and working tree is clean
+    """
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        ldir = conf.repos[name]['local_repo_dir']
+        if not os.path.exists(ldir):
+            logger.info("cloning %s to %s" %(conf.repos[name]['src_uri'], ldir))
+            subprocess.check_call("git clone %s %s" % (conf.repos[name]['src_uri'], ldir), shell=True)
+    if not os.path.exists(".git"):
+        runcmd("git init")
+
+def check_repo_clean(repodir):
+    """
+        check if the repo is clean
+        exit if repo is dirty
+    """
+    try:
+        runcmd("git diff --quiet", repodir)
+        #TODO: also check the index using "git diff --cached"
+        #      but this will fail in just initialized git repo
+        #      so need figure out a way
+    except:
+        logger.error("git repo %s is dirty, please fix it first", repodir)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+def action_update(conf, args):
+    """
+        update the component repo
+        generate the patch list
+        apply the generated patches
+    """
+    # make sure all repos are clean
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        check_repo_clean(conf.repos[name]['local_repo_dir'])
+    check_repo_clean(os.getcwd())
+
+    import uuid
+    patch_dir = "patch-%s" % uuid.uuid4()
+    os.mkdir(patch_dir)
+
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        repo = conf.repos[name]
+        ldir = repo['local_repo_dir']
+        dest_dir = repo['dest_dir']
+        repo_patch_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), patch_dir, name)
+
+        # Step 1: update the component repo
+        logger.info("git pull for component repo %s in %s ..." % (name, ldir))
+        output=runcmd("git pull", ldir)
+        logger.info(output)
+
+        # Step 2: generate the patch list and store to patch dir
+        logger.info("generating patches for %s" % name)
+        if dest_dir != ".":
+            prefix = "--src-prefix=a/%s/ --dst-prefix=b/%s/" % (dest_dir, dest_dir)
+        else:
+            prefix = ""
+        if repo['last_revision'] == "":
+            logger.info("Warning: last_revision of component %s is not set, so start from the first commit" % name)
+            patch_cmd_range = "--root master"
+            rev_cmd_range = "master"
+        else:
+            patch_cmd_range = "%s..master" % repo['last_revision']
+            rev_cmd_range = "%s..master" % repo['last_revision']
+
+        file_filter = repo.get('file_filter',"")
+
+        patch_cmd = "git format-patch -N %s --output-directory %s %s -- %s" % \
+            (prefix,repo_patch_dir, patch_cmd_range, file_filter)
+        output = runcmd(patch_cmd, ldir)
+        logger.debug("generated patch set:\n%s" % output)
+        patchlist = output.splitlines()
+
+        rev_cmd = 'git log --pretty=format:"%H" ' + rev_cmd_range
+        revlist = runcmd(rev_cmd, ldir).splitlines()
+
+        # Step 3: Call repo specific hook to adjust patch
+        if 'hook' in repo:
+            # hook parameter is: ./hook patchpath revision reponame
+            count=len(revlist)-1
+            for patch in patchlist:
+                runcmd("%s %s %s %s" % (repo['hook'], patch, revlist[count], name))
+                count=count-1
+
+        # Step 4: write patch list and revision list to file, for user to edit later
+        patchlist_file = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), patch_dir, "patchlist-%s" % name)
+        repo['patchlist'] = patchlist_file
+        f = open(patchlist_file, 'w')
+        count=len(revlist)-1
+        for patch in patchlist:
+            f.write("%s %s\n" % (patch, revlist[count]))
+            count=count-1
+        f.close()
+
+    # Step 5: invoke bash for user to edit patch and patch list
+    if conf.interactive:
+        print   'Edit the patch and patch list in %s\n' \
+                'For example, remove the unwanted patch entry from patchlist-*, so that it will be not applied later\n' \
+                'After finish, press following command to continue\n' \
+                '       exit 0  -- exit and continue to apply the patch\n' \
+                '       exit 1  -- abort and not apply patch\n' % patch_dir
+        ret = subprocess.call(["bash"], cwd=patch_dir)
+        if ret != 0:
+            print "Abort without applying patch"
+            sys.exit(0)
+
+    # Step 6: apply the generated and revised patch
+    action_apply_patch(conf, args)
+    runcmd("rm -rf %s" % patch_dir)
+
+def action_apply_patch(conf, args):
+    """
+        apply the generated patch list to combo repo
+    """
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        repo = conf.repos[name]
+        lastrev = repo["last_revision"]
+        for line in open(repo['patchlist']):
+            patchfile = line.split()[0]
+            lastrev = line.split()[1]
+            cmd = "git am -s -p1 %s" % patchfile
+            logger.info("Apply %s" % patchfile )
+            try:
+                runcmd(cmd)
+            except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+                logger.info('"git am --abort" is executed to cleanup repo')
+                runcmd("git am --abort")
+                logger.error('"%s" failed' % cmd)
+                logger.info("please manually apply patch %s" % patchfile)
+                logger.info("After applying, run this tool again to apply the rest patches")
+                conf.update(name, "last_revision", lastrev)
+                sys.exit(0)
+        conf.update(name, "last_revision", lastrev)
+
+def action_splitpatch(conf, args):
+    """
+        generate the commit patch and
+        split the patch per repo
+    """
+    logger.debug("action_splitpatch")
+    if len(args) > 1:
+        commit = args[1]
+    else:
+        commit = "HEAD"
+    patchdir = "splitpatch-%s" % commit
+    if not os.path.exists(patchdir):
+        os.mkdir(patchdir)
+
+    # filerange_root is for the repo whose dest_dir is root "."
+    # and it should be specified by excluding all other repo dest dir
+    # like "-x repo1 -x repo2 -x repo3 ..."
+    filerange_root = ""
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        dest_dir = conf.repos[name]['dest_dir']
+        if dest_dir != ".":
+            filerange_root = '%s -x "%s/*"' % (filerange_root, dest_dir)
+
+    for name in conf.repos:
+        dest_dir = conf.repos[name]['dest_dir']
+        patch_filename = "%s/%s.patch" % (patchdir, name)
+        if dest_dir == ".":
+            cmd = "git format-patch -n1 --stdout %s^..%s | filterdiff -p1 %s > %s" % (commit, commit, filerange_root, patch_filename)
+        else:
+            cmd = "git format-patch --no-prefix -n1 --stdout %s^..%s -- %s > %s" % (commit, commit, dest_dir, patch_filename)
+        runcmd(cmd)
+        # Detect empty patches (including those produced by filterdiff above
+        # that contain only preamble text)
+        if os.path.getsize(patch_filename) == 0 or runcmd("filterdiff %s" % patch_filename) == "":
+            os.remove(patch_filename)
+            logger.info("(skipping %s - no changes)", name)
+        else:
+            logger.info(patch_filename)
+
+def action_error(conf, args):
+    logger.info("invalid action %s" % args[0])
+
+actions = {
+    "init": action_init,
+    "update": action_update,
+    "splitpatch": action_splitpatch,
+}
+
+def main():
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(
+        version = "Combo Layer Repo Tool version %s" % __version__,
+        usage = """%prog [options] action
+
+Create and update a combination layer repository from multiple component repositories.
+
+Action:
+  init              initialise the combo layer repo
+  update            get patches from component repos and apply them to the combo repo
+  splitpatch [commit] generate commit patch and split per component, default commit is HEAD""")
+
+    parser.add_option("-c", "--conf", help = "specify the config file. default is conf/combolayer.conf",
+               action = "store", dest = "conffile", default = "combo-layer.conf")
+
+    parser.add_option("-i", "--interactive", help = "interactive mode, user can edit the patch list and patches",
+               action = "store_true", dest = "interactive", default = False)
+
+    parser.add_option("-D", "--debug", help = "output debug information",
+               action = "store_true", dest = "debug", default = False)
+
+    options, args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
+
+    # Dispatch to action handler
+    if len(args) == 1:
+        logger.error("No action specified, exiting")
+        parser.print_help()
+    elif args[1] not in actions:
+        logger.error("Unsupported action %s, exiting\n" % (args[1]))
+        parser.print_help()
+    elif not os.path.exists(options.conffile):
+        logger.error("No valid config file, exiting\n")
+        parser.print_help()
+    else:
+        if options.debug:
+            logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+        confdata = Configuration(options)
+        confdata.sanity_check()
+        actions.get(args[1], action_error)(confdata, args[1:])
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        ret = main()
+    except Exception:
+        ret = 1
+        import traceback
+        traceback.print_exc(5)
+    sys.exit(ret)
diff --git a/scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh b/scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f03c4fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/combo-layer-hook-default.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Hook to add source component/revision info to commit message
+# Parameter:
+#   $1 patch-file
+#   $2 revision
+#   $3 reponame
+
+patchfile=$1
+rev=$2
+reponame=$3
+
+sed -i -e "s#Subject: \[PATCH\] \(.*\)#Subject: \[PATCH\] $reponame: \1#" $patchfile
+sed -i -e "0,/Signed-off-by:/s#\(Signed-off-by:.*\)#\($reponame rev: $rev\)\n\n\1#" $patchfile
diff --git a/scripts/combo-layer.conf.example b/scripts/combo-layer.conf.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09b9415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/combo-layer.conf.example
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# component name
+[bitbake]
+# mandatory options
+# git upstream uri
+src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
+
+# the directory to clone the component repo
+local_repo_dir = /home/kyu3/src/test/bitbake
+
+# the relative dir to commit the repo patch
+# use "." if it is root dir
+dest_dir = bitbake
+
+# the updated revision last time.
+# If empty, the tool will start from the first commit
+last_revision =
+
+# optional options
+
+# file_filter: only include the interested file
+# file_filter = [path] [path] ...
+# example:
+#   file_filter = src/  : only include the subdir src
+#   file_filter = src/*.c : only include the src *.c file
+#   file_filter = src/main.c src/Makefile.am : only include these two files
+
+# hook: if provided, the tool will call the hook to process the generated patch from upstream,
+#       and then apply the modified patch to combo repo
+# the hook's parameter is: ./hook patchpath revision reponame
+# example:
+#     hook = combo-layer-hook-default.sh
+
+[oe-core]
+src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
+local_repo_dir = /home/kyu3/src/test/oecore
+dest_dir = .
+last_revision =
-- 
1.7.4.1

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Koen Kooi]

Op 5 jul. 2011, om 18:28 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:

> From: Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>
> 
> This patch adds the script "combo-layer" to manipulate combo layer
> repos. A combo layer repo is a repo containing multiple component
> repos, e.g. oe-core, bitbake, BSP repos. The combo layer repo needs to
> be updated by syncing with the component repo upstream. This script
> is written to assist the combo layer handling.
> 
> The combo layer tool provides three functionalities:
> - init: when the combo layer repo and component repo does not exist,
>  init will "git init" the combo layer repo, and also "git clone" the
>  component repos
> 
> - update: combo layer tool will pull the latest commit from component
>  repo upstream, and apply the commits since last update commit to the
>  combo repo. If the user specifies interactive mode(--interactive),
>  they can edit the patch list to select which commits to apply.
> 
> - splitpatch: split the combo repo commit into separate patches per
>  component repo, to facilitate upstream submission.
> 
> Combo layer tool uses a config file to define the component repo info.
> Please check the combo-layer.conf.example for a detailed explanation
> of the config file fields.

I've been playing with this script and I have a few remarks about it. First the ones that aren't the fault of the script:

1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script
2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import oe-core and bitbake from scratch: 

	[14:08:48] Apply /Users/koen/Projects/Angstrom/setup-scripts/sources/combo-layer/patch-d99aaa2f-57f3-4c07-aac3-afc0538cae88/bitbake/0020-codeparser.py-Ignore-incomplete-cache-files.patch
	[14:08:48] Applying: codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete cache files
	error: patch failed: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py:75
	error: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py: patch does not apply
	Patch failed at 0001 codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete cache files	
	When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
	If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
	To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".

3) rotating disks are slow when trying to apply a few thousand patches

As for the script I only have one real complaint: The inability to set branches so you can make a combo layer based on non-master (e.g. release) branches.

For the rest it does what it says on the tin :)

regards,

Koen

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Phil Blundell]

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script
> 2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import oe-core and bitbake from scratch: 

Assuming I understand the intent correctly (which is by no means
certain), it sounds like maybe what you want for (2) is git-subtree.  I
agree that generating patches and piping them into git am sounds a bit
suboptimal for moving changesets from one place to another.

p.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Koen Kooi]

Op 28 jul. 2011, om 14:50 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script
>> 2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import oe-core and bitbake from scratch: 
> 
> Assuming I understand the intent correctly (which is by no means
> certain), it sounds like maybe what you want for (2) is git-subtree.  I
> agree that generating patches and piping them into git am sounds a bit
> suboptimal for moving changesets from one place to another.

It indeed looks like scripts/combo-layer can be replaced with https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree/blob/master/git-subtree.txt

I'm still not sure how much the "everything in one repo" approach will buy the angstrom maintainers, but at least now I now a few more ways to assemble the one-git-repo-to-rule-them-all :)

regards,

Koen

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 28 July 2011 13:11:00 Koen Kooi wrote:
> I've been playing with this script and I have a few remarks about it. First
> the ones that aren't the fault of the script:
> 
> 1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script

This can be a problem, yes. However if you know about these sorts of conflicts 
ahead of time you can mitigate them by adding the appropriate logic to a hook 
script (which can filter out stuff from the patches as they pass through).

> 2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import
> oe-core and bitbake from scratch:
> 
> 	[14:08:48] Apply
> /Users/koen/Projects/Angstrom/setup-scripts/sources/combo-layer/patch-d99a
> aa2f-57f3-4c07-aac3-afc0538cae88/bitbake/0020-codeparser.py-Ignore-incomple
> te-cache-files.patch [14:08:48] Applying: codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete
> cache files error: patch failed: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py:75
> 	error: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py: patch does not apply
> 	Patch failed at 0001 codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete cache files
> 	When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
> 	If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
> 	To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".

Perhaps I'm being thick, but what's the reason for this failing?
 
> 3) rotating disks are slow when trying to apply a few thousand patches

I think this is kind of the fault of the script in that it's the default 
behaviour - frankly I never expected anyone to use combo-layer to build a 
combined repo from scratch dragging across the entire history. Ideally you 
would begin from an existing repository that you had manually combined 
together, and combo-layer is the way of keeping it up-to-date after that 
point. We could easily automate the initial creation within the script if 
people think it's useful - I did think about doing that but I figured it's not 
something you expect to do very often.

> As for the script I only have one real complaint: The inability to set
> branches so you can make a combo layer based on non-master (e.g. release)
> branches.

Agreed, this is an omission, shouldn't be too difficult to fix though. It's on my 
todo list, feel free to submit a patch if you want it fixed faster ;)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Koen Kooi]

Op 28 jul. 2011, om 15:00 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:

> On Thursday 28 July 2011 13:11:00 Koen Kooi wrote:
>> I've been playing with this script and I have a few remarks about it. First
>> the ones that aren't the fault of the script:
>> 
>> 1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script
> 
> This can be a problem, yes. However if you know about these sorts of conflicts 
> ahead of time you can mitigate them by adding the appropriate logic to a hook 
> script (which can filter out stuff from the patches as they pass through).

Is that a hook in git or the combo script?

> 
>> 2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import
>> oe-core and bitbake from scratch:
>> 
>> 	[14:08:48] Apply
>> /Users/koen/Projects/Angstrom/setup-scripts/sources/combo-layer/patch-d99a
>> aa2f-57f3-4c07-aac3-afc0538cae88/bitbake/0020-codeparser.py-Ignore-incomple
>> te-cache-files.patch [14:08:48] Applying: codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete
>> cache files error: patch failed: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py:75
>> 	error: bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py: patch does not apply
>> 	Patch failed at 0001 codeparser.py: Ignore incomplete cache files
>> 	When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
>> 	If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
>> 	To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".
> 
> Perhaps I'm being thick, but what's the reason for this failing?

I don't know, I had a number of strange failures, which I blame the format-patch | am construct for. Git sucks for non-Linus workflows, we just have to live with that.

>> 3) rotating disks are slow when trying to apply a few thousand patches
> 
> I think this is kind of the fault of the script in that it's the default 
> behaviour - frankly I never expected anyone to use combo-layer to build a 
> combined repo from scratch dragging across the entire history. Ideally you 
> would begin from an existing repository that you had manually combined 
> together, and combo-layer is the way of keeping it up-to-date after that 
> point. We could easily automate the initial creation within the script if 
> people think it's useful - I did think about doing that but I figured it's not 
> something you expect to do very often.

With my distro maintainer hat on, I wouldn't use a combined repo for my day-to-day development setup, but I would hand it to my downstream users. The use-case I was trying to use it for is to create a git snapshot for a release where everything is in one place.

The current result: https://github.com/koenkooi/Angstrom-integration-layer

It is missing the angstrom buildscripts and config files, but it's a start.

Phil mentioned subtree, which is also worth looking at:

https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

regards,

Koen



> 
>> As for the script I only have one real complaint: The inability to set
>> branches so you can make a combo layer based on non-master (e.g. release)
>> branches.
> 
> Agreed, this is an omission, shouldn't be too difficult to fix though. It's on my 
> todo list, feel free to submit a patch if you want it fixed faster ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 28 July 2011 14:15:55 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Is that a hook in git or the combo script?

The combo script. The sample config file has an example of how to configure one 
(as well as an example hook script that adds origin commit IDs).
 
> With my distro maintainer hat on, I wouldn't use a combined repo for my
> day-to-day development setup, but I would hand it to my downstream users.
> The use-case I was trying to use it for is to create a git snapshot for a
> release where everything is in one place.

This is definitely the kind of thing combo-layer is useful for.

> Phil mentioned subtree, which is also worth looking at:
> 
> https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

I've looked at it in the past but not tried it, must have a proper test soon.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: [PATCH 0/1] combo-layer tool v3

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:28 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> This is the third version of Yu Ke's combo-layer tool. Changes since v2:
>  * Fix splitpatch so that it handles commits that only affect some of the
>    components (reports the ones that have been skipped and avoids writing
>    out empty patches)
>  * A few fixes to the help text & comments
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit f05b7ee7716d1e5cc1ba0bbab57e91c3a0569e9e:
> 
>   x-load: Update to 1.5.0 (2011-07-05 14:16:33 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib paule/combo-layer-v3
>   http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=paule/combo-layer-v3
> 
> Yu Ke (1):
>   combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

Merged to master, thanks.

Richard