Bug 201045 – webkit-patch upload: Don't crash on large changes

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

[James Darpinian]

webkit-patch upload: Make file status failure not fatal.

[James Darpinian]

Created attachment 377029 [details]
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[James Darpinian]

Created attachment 377030 [details]
Patch

[James Darpinian]

Hey Dean, I ran into this while updating ANGLE, which produces large patches. Can you take a look?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 377030 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=377030&action=review

> Tools/ChangeLog:8
> +        webkit-patch upload fails on large changes (~2000 files) because the prepare-ChangeLog step tries to
> +        execute a command line that is too long. This change allows webkit-patch upload to continue past
> +        the failure.

Could you please elaborate on why it's acceptable to continue past this failure?

Seems like we should make a decision for how many files we want to put into ChangeLog (too many is impractical), but that's a check that would be made at a different level in the code.

[James Darpinian]

Created attachment 377068 [details]
Patch

[James Darpinian]

I updated the patch to fix the failure by splitting the command line, instead of ignoring the failure. PTAL

[Kimmo Kinnunen]

The patch touches prepare-Changelog and its SVN parts.
Changelogs are not used anymore.
SVN is not used anymore.
Currently it's hard to reproduce the solved issue since there's no test infra for prepare-ChangeLog and the patch doesn't add a test.
Currently we haven't seen issues updating ANGLE.

The prepare-ChangeLog might be still used and it might have the same issue if a git patch has too many files changed. However, since this patch hasn't received review in 3 years and we haven't seen the issues, maybe it's ok to re-solve this issue when it resurfaces.