[Python-Dev] Handling PR branches in "make patchcheck"

[Nick Coghlan]

Hi folks,

With the move to a PR based workflow, I've been finding "make patchcheck"
less helpful than it used to be, as it was only checking the changes that
had yet to be committed at all, and ignoring those that had already been
checked in on the PR branch.

I've put together a proposed update to Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py that
makes it aware of git branches, and automatically diffs against the base
branch when it detects something that "looks like" a PR branch:
http://bugs.python.org/issue29656

I can vouch for it working in my particular setup (where "origin" refers to
the upstream repo), but it would be good if folks could try it out with
other configurations before we merge it (in particular, it *should* handle
the case where the upstream remote is called "upstream", but I don't use
that arrangement myself).

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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