[PATCH v4 1/4] patman: Suppress empty changelog entries

[Sean Anderson]

Patman outputs a line for every edition of the series in every patch,
regardless of whether any changes were made. This can result in many
redundant lines in patch changelogs, especially when a patch did not exist
before a certain revision. For example, the existing behaviour could result
in a changelog of

Changes in v7: None
Changes in v6: None
Changes in v5:
- Make a change

Changes in v4: None

Changes in v3:
- New

Changes in v2: None

With this patch applied and with --no-empty-changes, the same patch would
look like

(no changes since v5)

Changes in v5:
- Make a change

Changes in v3:
- New

This is entirely aesthetic, but I think it reduces clutter, especially for
patches added later on in a series.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v4:
- Fix need_blank not always reflecting the need for a blank
- Refactor newest_version logic

Changes in v3:
- Document empty changelog suppression in README
- Fix KeyError when running tests
- Fix no changes message being output for revision 1
- Fix no changes message sometimes being output before every
  non-newest-revision change
- Make the newest_version logic more robust (and ugly)
- Update commit subject

Changes in v2:
- Add a note when there are no changes in the current revision
- Make this the default behaviour, and remove the option

 tools/patman/README    | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/patman/series.py | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index 02d5829744..d1d9891c4c 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -474,6 +474,27 @@ print out the command line patman would have used.
 not later when you can't remember which patch you changed. You can always
 go back and change or remove logs from commits.
 
+7. Patches will have no changelog entries for revisions where they did not
+change. For clarity, if there are no changes for this patch in the most
+recent revision of the series, a note will be added. For example, a patch
+with the following tags in the commit
+
+    Series-version: 5
+    Series-changes: 2
+    - Some change
+
+    Series-changes: 4
+    - Another change
+
+would have a changelog of
+
+    (no changes since v4)
+
+    Changes in v4:
+    - Another change
+
+    Changes in v2:
+    - Some change
 
 Other thoughts
 ==============
diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py
index e5e28cebdf..be6f061122 100644
--- a/tools/patman/series.py
+++ b/tools/patman/series.py
@@ -144,38 +144,57 @@ class Series(dict):
             Changes in v4:
             - Jog the dial back closer to the widget
 
-            Changes in v3: None
             Changes in v2:
             - Fix the widget
             - Jog the dial
 
-            etc.
+            If there are no new changes in a patch, a note will be added
+
+            (no changes since v2)
+
+            Changes in v2:
+            - Fix the widget
+            - Jog the dial
         """
+        versions = sorted(self.changes, reverse=True)
+        newest_version = 1
+        if 'version' in self:
+            newest_version = max(newest_version, int(self.version))
+        if versions:
+            newest_version = max(newest_version, versions[0])
+
         final = []
         process_it = self.get('process_log', '').split(',')
         process_it = [item.strip() for item in process_it]
         need_blank = False
-        for change in sorted(self.changes, reverse=True):
+        for version in versions:
             out = []
-            for this_commit, text in self.changes[change]:
+            for this_commit, text in self.changes[version]:
                 if commit and this_commit != commit:
                     continue
                 if 'uniq' not in process_it or text not in out:
                     out.append(text)
-            line = 'Changes in v%d:' % change
-            have_changes = len(out) > 0
             if 'sort' in process_it:
                 out = sorted(out)
+            have_changes = len(out) > 0
+            line = 'Changes in v%d:' % version
             if have_changes:
                 out.insert(0, line)
-            else:
-                out = [line + ' None']
-            if need_blank:
-                out.insert(0, '')
+                if version < newest_version and len(final) == 0:
+                    out.insert(0, '')
+                    out.insert(0, '(no changes since v%d)' % version)
+                    newest_version = 0
+                # Only add a new line if we output something
+                if need_blank:
+                    out.insert(0, '')
+                    need_blank = False
             final += out
-            need_blank = have_changes
-        if self.changes:
+            need_blank = need_blank or have_changes
+
+        if len(final) > 0:
             final.append('')
+        elif newest_version != 1:
+            final = ['(no changes since v1)', '']
         return final
 
     def DoChecks(self):
-- 
2.26.2