[U-Boot] Problem with first use of patman

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Daniel,

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:58:51 +0200, Daniel Schwierzeck
<daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/10/14 Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:13:22 +0200, Daniel Schwierzeck
> > <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > However, /tools/patman/patman --no-tags -n -c2 gives the same
> > error messages. :(
> >
> 
> another workaround you could try is: export LANG=C
> patman does not work with a default locale other than english

Tried LANG=C (and LC_ALL=C), no change. :(

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.