patman regression?

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 18:25, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:29 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bin,
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 21:37, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:32 PM Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 12/10/20 11:27 PM, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:08 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Hi Simon,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The following command no longer works. They used to work.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> $ ./tools/patman/patman -n -c1
> > > > >> usage: patman [-h] [-b BRANCH] [-c COUNT] [-e END] [-D] [-p PROJECT]
> > > > >>                [-P PATCHWORK_URL] [-s START] [-v] [-H]
> > > > >>                {send,test,status} ...
> > > > >> patman: error: unrecognized arguments: -n
> > > > >> $ ./tools/patman/patman -n -c 1
> > > > >> usage: patman [-h] [-b BRANCH] [-c COUNT] [-e END] [-D] [-p PROJECT]
> > > > >>                [-P PATCHWORK_URL] [-s START] [-v] [-H]
> > > > >>                {send,test,status} ...
> > > > >> patman: error: argument -c/--count: invalid int value: 'send'
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I did not run a bisect to locate which commit introduced this. Do you
> > > > >> have any idea?
> > > > >
> > > > > Resetting to v2020.10, patman works again with the above 2 commands.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note the latest patman also throws an exception about commit tags
> > > > > while the v2020.10 version did not.
> > > > >
> > > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > > >    File "./tools/patman/patman", line 177, in <module>
> > > > >      control.send(args)
> > > > >    File "./tools/patman/control.py", line 177, in send
> > > > >      args.smtp_server)
> > > > >    File "./tools/patman/control.py", line 136, in email_patches
> > > > >      add_maintainers, limit)
> > > > >    File "./tools//patman/series.py", line 264, in MakeCcFile
> > > > >      raise_on_error=raise_on_error)
> > > > >    File "./tools//patman/gitutil.py", line 383, in BuildEmailList
> > > > >      raw += LookupEmail(item, alias, raise_on_error=raise_on_error)
> > > > >    File "./tools//patman/gitutil.py", line 588, in LookupEmail
> > > > >      raise ValueError(msg)
> > > > > ValueError: Alias 'doc' not found
> > > >
> > > > I also get this error even with process_tags=False.
> > >
> > > Yep, here is my patman settings:
> > >
> > > [settings]
> > > ignore_errors: True
> > > process_tags: False
> > > verbose: True
> >
> > That error has always been, or nearly. Use -t to drop it. I have been
>
> No, it was not in v2020.10 release.
>
> > thinking about changing it to a warning, since even I am not that
> > strict about adding tags to my .patman file these days.
> >
> > Re the problem you reported, I changed patman to accept a subcommand
> > at some point, so you need:
> >
> > patman  -c1 send -n
>
> If "send" is omitted, the behavior should be like what was like before
> in v2020.10, instead of error messages.
>
> > I know this is pretty annoying, so if you have any ideas on how to get
> > patman to do the right thing when 'send' is missing, let me know.
>
> If changing the logic is hard, the patman documentation should be
> corrected to match the latest command line options.

Despite my efforts I'm not sure of a good way to keep the old behaviour.

I'll send a patch to update the docs.

Regards,
Simon