[chirp_devel] git vs hg patches [was: [PATCH 1/4] chirp.py: add --list-radios option (#2343)]

[Zach Welch]

On 02/23/2015 03:27 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
...
> Can you send these in mercurial native format? That way I can just
> import them into the repo and they're properly stamped with your name,
> commit message, etc.

If that's strictly necessary, I could.  I haven't used mercurial for a 
great many years, but I use git on a daily basis.  Thus, I used hg-git 
to create a git repository that I could use for my chirp development.  I 
used git to format and post my patches, and I figured that would be 
sufficient for importing into mercurial.  Apparently not.

On the bright side, the problem may have been solved for us:

 
https://github.com/mozilla/moz-git-tools/blob/master/git-patch-to-hg-patch

Will that script give you some joy?  After testing it here, I can see it 
will need a small tweak to remove [PATCH x/n] (not just [PATCH]), but 
that should be fairly easy for someone well-versed in Python.  There may 
be other gotchas that I don't see, so let me know what you think about it.

Honestly, I would really love to avoid learning mercurial right now. 
Isn't it enough that I'm learning Python? ;)

> Also, you need a bug in the commit message or I physically can't put it
> into the repo. See this for more details:

The bug number is in the Subject line of all of my patches, which 
becomes the first line of the commit message when using git.  Will that 
work (after the above conversion) for mercurial, or do I need to put it 
in the body of the message proper?

Thanks,
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