Bug 31974 – validate-committer-lists fails when run from an SVN checkout

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

validate-committer-lists fails when run from an SVN checkout

We should at least display a nice warning if we require Git.  Only one of the checks (checking against historical committers) requires a git checkout.  It's possible we could even do the check using a remote git repository.

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./validate-committer-lists", line 252, in <module>
    main()
  File "./validate-committer-lists", line 248, in main
    svn_committer_list.print_possibly_expired_committers(committer_list)
  File "./validate-committer-lists", line 211, in print_possibly_expired_committers
    authors_and_last_commits = self._last_commit_by_author().items()
  File "./validate-committer-lists", line 203, in _last_commit_by_author
    del self._last_commit_time_by_author_cache['(no author)'] # The initial svn import isn't very useful.
KeyError: '(no author)'

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Created attachment 45400 [details]
Patch

[WebKit Review Bot]

style-queue ran check-webkit-style on attachment 45400 [details] without any errors.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Evan, it's not possible to point git log at a remote repository is it?

The only command we need git for is:
git log --reverse --pretty="format:%ae %at"

Trying to do that with SVN would take at least 3 eons.  It's already slow enough w/ git.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 45400 [details]
Patch

Clearing flags on attachment: 45400

Committed r52501: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52501>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Evan Martin]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Evan, it's not possible to point git log at a remote repository is it?
> 
> The only command we need git for is:
> git log --reverse --pretty="format:%ae %at"
> 
> Trying to do that with SVN would take at least 3 eons.  It's already slow
> enough w/ git.

Unfortunately, it's not possible.