Adding mail_patches rake task

Signed-off-by: Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 0f6d2b8..c53f8f6 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -63,3 +63,38 @@ namespace :ci do
 
 end
 
+desc "Send patch information to the puppet-dev list"
+task :mail_patches do
+    if Dir.glob("00*.patch").length > 0
+        raise "Patches already exist matching '00*.patch'; clean up first"
+    end
+
+    unless %x{git status} =~ /On branch (.+)/
+        raise "Could not get branch from 'git status'"
+    end
+    branch = $1
+    
+    unless branch =~ %r{^([^\/]+)/([^\/]+)/([^\/]+)$}
+        raise "Branch name does not follow <type>/<parent>/<name> model; cannot autodetect parent branch"
+    end
+
+    type, parent, name = $1, $2, $3
+
+    # Create all of the patches
+    sh "git format-patch -C -M -s -n #{parent}..HEAD"
+
+    # And then mail them out.
+
+    # If we've got more than one patch, add --compose
+    if Dir.glob("00*.patch").length > 1
+        compose = "--compose"
+    else
+        compose = ""
+    end
+
+    # Now send the mail.
+    sh "git send-email #{compose} --no-chain-reply-to --no-signed-off-by-cc --suppress-from --no-thread --to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com 00*.patch"
+
+    # Finally, clean up the patches
+    sh "rm 00*.patch"
+end