[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tool/bisect: add some magic to make the bisect tool be useable when its not part of a checkout

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:00:41PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/tools/bisect b/tools/bisect
> > index de43f68..cdf3226 100755
> > --- a/tools/bisect
> > +++ b/tools/bisect
> > @@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
> >  
> >  set -e
> >  
> > +if test "bisect" = "`basename $0`" ; then
> > +    echo WARNING, trying to execute tools/bisect directly this cannot work as
> > +    echo the script itself would not be available in older checkouts
> > +    echo please use tools/bisec
> > +    git show master:tools/bisect > tools/bisec
> > +    chmod u+x tools/bisec
> > +    exit 1
> > +fi
> 
>   The distinction bisect/bisec seems a bit too subtle too me. Especially as
> the latter looks like a typo at first.
> 
>   Would it be a solution to rename the checked in file into bisect-create?
> In that case the warning message could be replaced by
> "Created tools/bisect"
> 
>   While thinking more about it naming the created file bisect could cause
> trouble for the few revisions where tools/bisect is part of the source.
> Maybe tools/ffbisect?

changes done and applied

thanks

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