Re: [PATCH] checkkconfigsymbols.py: make it Git aware

[Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 16:04 +0100, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
>> Paul, how long does your monster run?  Maybe I just call it wrong or
>> mess up with caches.
>
> Even longer, I presume. Because an update for just a new linux next
> release can take over a minute on my fastest machine (a ThinkPad X220).
>
> (Recall that my monster runs daily over just the blobs added to the tree
> for the latest linux-next tag and stores an intermediate parse as a git
> note to each of those new blobs. It then does a second parse of all the
> git notes relevant for that tag and stores the final result as a git
> note to that tag.
>
> And I do all this to make the daily update run at a decent speed. A
> downside of this approach is that the very first run, which has to
> parse, say, 50.000 new blobs, takes ages.)

Thank you for the explanation.  I was really surprised how long
(compared to reset) it takes.

> My suggestion won't do here. So let me just say that messing with the
> state of peoples repository might make you the target of a flame or two.
> Are you sure you want to go down that route?

In case running the script would delete one's day of work or worse ...
no ... I don't want to take responsibility for that.  The patch at the
current state is unacceptable, but I see two options to solve the
issue while being fast:

(1)  Test if the current tree is dirty, warn the user and ask if she
wants to continue or not.
(2)  Abort if the tree is dirty.

Personally, I prefer option 2.  The script would still be fast, and
there is no way that it deletes data by accident.

Kind regards,
 Valentin