patman: Add -a option to refrain from test-applying the patches
Especially with the Linux kernel, it takes a long time (a minute or more)
to test-apply the patches, so patman becomes significantly less useful.
The only real problem that is found with this apply step is trailing spaces.
Provide a -a option to skip this step, for those working with clean patches.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.py b/tools/patman/patman.py
index 23026be..a8061a9 100755
--- a/tools/patman/patman.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.py
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
parser = OptionParser()
+parser.add_option('-a', '--no-apply', action='store_false',
+ dest='apply_patches', default=True,
+ help="Don't test-apply patches with git am")
parser.add_option('-H', '--full-help', action='store_true', dest='full_help',
default=False, help='Display the README file')
parser.add_option('-c', '--count', dest='count', type='int',
@@ -157,9 +160,10 @@
ok = checkpatch.CheckPatches(options.verbose, args)
else:
ok = True
- if not gitutil.ApplyPatches(options.verbose, args,
- options.count + options.start):
- ok = False
+ if options.apply_patches:
+ if not gitutil.ApplyPatches(options.verbose, args,
+ options.count + options.start):
+ ok = False
cc_file = series.MakeCcFile(options.process_tags, cover_fname,
not options.ignore_bad_tags)