Re: staging patchy problem.

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:31:52AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The intent is that after doing staging->master, patchy's master
> > should be updated so that a later run of test-patches.py doesn't
> > miss any updates.
> 
> If test-patches.py needs a particular state of master/index, it should
> cater for it by itself rather than rely on the state left by some
> independent tool running asynchronously.

I don't disagree.

> > Maybe it's better to make test-patches.py run based off
> > origin/master instead of master?
> 
> test-patches.py as far as I remember is _not_ run based off _either_
> origin/master or master, but rather the current _index_.  Which is about
> as unreliable as one can get short of just copying the work directory.

I don't disagree.

> One should make it clone origin/master.

I don't disagree.

- Graham