On 25 Sep 2014, at 00:42, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasi...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello! > > This is a proposal to enhance the unshuffle_patch.sh script so that it will > be able to read from stdin and write to stdout. > This would let us use the script in a pipe chain. > > For example, the following line could be used to apply a patch directly from > a remote repository: > wget -q -O - http://path.to.the.raw.patch | bash > ~/jdk9/common/bin/unshuffle_patch.sh jdk - - | hg patch - --no-commit > > (Note, that it would only work, if the repository provides the patches in the > git format, which is not currently the case with hg.openjdk.java.net.) It would be nice to start a thread with ops@o.j.n to request that this be changed. -Chris. > Would you please help review/approve this enhancement? > > BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059101 > WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8059101/0/webrev/ > > Sincerely yours, > Ivan >
