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Phabricator review submission/management tool

Primary LanguagePythonMozilla Public License 2.0MPL-2.0

Wrapper around Phabricator's arc cli to support submission of a series of commits.

Installation

Linux and MacOS

Download moz-phab and place it on your system path.

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Windows with MozillaBuild/MSYS

Download moz-phab and place it on your system path.

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Other Windows Installs

Download moz-phab and store it anywhere (e.g. C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab).

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Run python with the full path to moz-phab: python C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab.

If you are using MinTTY (e.g. via Git's Bash) you'll need to run it through winpty as with any other Python script: winpty python C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab.

Configuration

moz-phab has an INI style configuration file to control defaults: ~/.moz-phab-config

This file will be created if it doesn't exist.

[ui]
no_ansi = False

[submit]
auto_submit = False
always_blocking = False
warn_uncommitted = True

[updater]
self_last_check = <time>
arc_last_check = <time>
  • ui.no_ansi : never use ANSI colours (default: auto-detected).
  • submit.auto_submit : when true the confirmation prompt will be skipped (default: false).
  • submit.always_blocking : when true reviewers in commit descriptions will be marked as blocking. reviewers specified on the command line override this setting (default: false).
  • submit.warn_uncommiteed : when true show a warning if there are uncommitted changes in the working directory (default: true)
  • updater.self_last_check : epoch timestamp (local timezone) indicating the last time an update check was performed for this script. set to -1 to disable this check.
  • updater.arc_last_check : epoch timestamp (local timezone) indicating the last time an update was performed for arc. set to -1 to disable this check.

moz-phab can also be configured via the following environmental variables:

  • DEBUG : enabled debugging output (default: disabled)
  • UPDATE_FILE : when self-updating write to this file instead of __file__

Execution

The simplest invocation is

  $ moz-phab submit [start_rev] [end_rev]

If no positional arguments (start_rev/end_rev) are given, the range of commits is automatically determined, starting with the first non-public, non-obsolete changeset (for Mercurial) and ending with the currently checked-out changeset. If only one argument is given, it is interpreted as the first changeset in the range, with the last again being the currently checked-out changeset. If both arguments are given, they denote the full, inclusive range of changesets.

Bug IDs and reviewers are parsed out of commit messages by default. You can set a reviewer as blocking by appending an exclamation mark to the reviewer's nick, e.g. r=foo!. If submit.always_blocking is set to true (see above), reviewers will always be set to blocking regardless.

A bug ID can also be set for every revision in the series with the --bug option, which overrides any bug IDs in commit messages. Similarly, reviewers can be set for every revision in the series with --reviewer (regular reviewers) and/or --blocker (blocking reviewers), which again overrides any reviewers in commit messages.

Run moz-phab submit -h for more options for submitting revisions.

moz-phab will periodically check for updates and display a notice when a new version is available. To update moz-phab, run moz-phab self-update.

Note that if you do not have Python in your path, you will need to run <path to python>/python <path to moz-phab>/moz-phab instead of moz-phab.

Development

  • must only use standard libraries
  • must be a single file for easy deployment

Unit tests can be executed with python -m unittest discover.

All python code must be formatted with black using the default settings.