Re: FYI: git-hooks update on sourceware.org

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:21 AM Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> > > What version of Python are you using, is it really old?  All the
> > > reasonably recent and supported Python versions ship with the enum
> > > module.
> >
> > Ah nevermind, I thought it was available in 2.7, but no.  So I presume
> > you use 2.7.
>
> Overseers just got it installed for us. So I've re-done the update.
>
> > Or, making sure you use python3 on the server could just be easier.
>
> This is in my TODO, but I'm still busy finishing up on the enhancement
> requests made by the GCC community. Once that's done, I'll start working
> on the transition to Python 3.x. I expect it to be a lot of work, not
> necessarily because the code might need a lot of transformation (it's
> possible, but my experience with the style_checker regarding that has
> been that it's fairly limited), but because I have to redo the testsuite
> framework, and then transition every testcase (all 200 of them). Since
> I do all that work during a few hours each weekend, I don't expect this
> to be done before end of this year at best. I look forward to being
> able to use all the new Python features brought by the latest Python
> though!
>
> I will install your script on Monday (I have more chances to be at
> my desk if something goes wrong).

The current hook ignores the commit subject when scanning for
PR/BZ #.   It causes that glibc commit no longer updates glibc
bug report when BZ # is only mentioned in the commit subject.

-- 
H.J.