I modified my .git/config as suggested at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit [svn-remote "svn"] url = http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/origin/master Now I can make "git pull && git svn rebase" in few seconds. However, webkit-patch land-from-bug gives me: =============== googleio-macbookpro:WebKit pfeldman$ WebKitTools/Scripts/webkit-patch land-from-bug 48069 Fetching: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48069&ctype=xml 1 reviewed patch found on bug 48069. Processing 1 patch from 1 bug. ERROR: Working directory has local commits, pass --force-clean to continue. =============== Now I do --force-clean, wait 15 minutes and get =============== Fetching: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48069&ctype=xml 1 reviewed patch found on bug 48069. Processing 1 patch from 1 bug. Cleaning working directory Updating working directory Processing patch 71442 from bug 48069. Reading Keychain for bugs.webkit.org account and password. Click "Allow" to continue... Logging in as pfeldman@chromium.org... Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/BugsSite/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/qt/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/JavaScriptGlue/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/LayoutTests/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/PlanetWebKit/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/SunSpider/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebCore/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/cf/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/chromium/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/efl/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/gtk/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/gtk/po/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/haiku/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/mac/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/qt/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/win/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/wince/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit/wx/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKit2/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKitLibraries/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKitSite/ChangeLog Parsing ChangeLog: /Users/pfeldman/WebKit/WebKitTools/ChangeLog There are 2600 local commits and working copy changes. Everything will be committed as a single commit. To avoid this prompt, set "git config webkit-patch.commit-should-always-squash true". [Y/n]: =============== It all worked fine when my config was fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk But svn rebase was really slow back then. I want both: fast rebase and webkit-patch please!
Yes. I'd like us to make the fast-rebase path the standard webkit setup, so we should do everything possible to make it well supported in webkit-patch (including possibly adding a command for setting up such a checkout).