patman: Start with a clean series when needed
For reasons that are not well-understood, GetMetaDataForList() can end up
adding to an existing series even when it appears that it should be
starting a new one.
Change from using a default constructor parameter to an explicit one, to
work around this problem.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/patman/patchstream.py b/tools/patman/patchstream.py
index b0b8153..b3e66c3 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patchstream.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patchstream.py
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
def GetMetaDataForList(commit_range, git_dir=None, count=None,
- series = Series()):
+ series = None):
"""Reads out patch series metadata from the commits
This does a 'git log' on the relevant commits and pulls out the tags we
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@
Returns:
A Series object containing information about the commits.
"""
+ if not series:
+ series = Series()
params = gitutil.LogCmd(commit_range,reverse=True, count=count,
git_dir=git_dir)
stdout = command.RunPipe([params], capture=True).stdout