[U-Boot] Problem with first use of patman

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

Hi Albert,

2012/10/14 Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>:
> Hello Simon and the list,
>
> I'm trying to start using patman, and -- probably out of sheer
> ignorance -- cannot make it work.
>
> I've defined my .patman file with aliases for mvgbe, lacie_kw, arm,
> arm926ejs etc.
>
> I am trying to generate patches from a local branch (which I have made
> available on the u-boot-arm repo as 'add-ws-support') which has two
> commits.
>
> Top commit contains some matman tags, but the error is the without any
> tag.
>
> The complete error is:
>
> albert at lilith:~/src/u-boot-arm$ tools/patman/patman -n -c2
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tools/patman/patman", line 125, in <module>
>     series = patchstream.GetMetaData(options.start, options.count)
>   File "/home/albert/src/u-boot-arm/tools/patman/patchstream.py", line
> 352, in GetMetaData ps.ProcessLine(line)
>   File "/home/albert/src/u-boot-arm/tools/patman/patchstream.py", line
> 190, in ProcessLine self.commit.subject = line
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'subject'
> albert at lilith:~/src/u-boot-arm$
>
> Can Simon (or someone who's already bumped into this error) tell me what
> I'm doing wrong?
>

I've had the same issue. Try the --no-tags option. Without that option all tags
in the commit summary (e.g. 'arm: some-board: some commit summary') will be
parsed which causes several errors.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel