On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Zoltan Horvath <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, James Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Zoltan Horvath <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> prepare-Changelog:
>>>  - The style checker script runs on the ChangeLogs as well, and it gives 
>>> warning if the bug number or the tests' line are not filled.
>> 
>> I consider this an expected behavior. If you don't include --bug=12345 
>> parameter when running prepare-Changelog, your diff is currently in a state 
>> that would fail style checks. Having the Terminal output immediately tell 
>> you that detail is useful.
>> 
>>>  - I think the best behavior for this case would be to abort the change log 
>>> creation, if there are errors on the actual code check. (Then you can fix 
>>> those, and when you rerun prepare-Changelog, it puts the recent things into 
>>> the change log. [e.g. you've got a lower/uppercase function naming warning, 
>>> and the function name appears in the change log])
>> 
>> I don't think this is right. If we aborted the change log creation, you'd 
>> never be able to run prepare-Changelog without the --bug parameter, unless 
>> you specifically disabled the style check with --no-style.
> 
> I'd avoid running the style-checker on the change logs themselves <since 
> these're being created> when running prepare-Changelog, and abort changelog 
> creation, if the _rest of the code_ have coding style violation <since fact 
> of violation is our interest at this point>.

What if we file another bug for that part of the work? It seems like a 
nice-to-have, but not necessary for this patch.
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