RFR [9] 8059101: unshuffle_patch.sh should be able to deal with stdin/stdout

[Chris Hegarty]

On 25 Sep 2014, at 00:42, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at 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 at 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
>