René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Consider how to handle failed cherry-picks","articleBody":"_From @ncoghlan on March 12, 2017 4:57_\r\n\r\nI think this utility has a lot of potential to evolve into the bot that actually does the automated cherry-pick PR creation, and one of the things we'll need to address there is what to do when the routine cherry pick fails.\r\n\r\nAt the moment, if the first cherry-pick fails, it leaves the checkout in a messy state, so all the subsequent branch creation commands fail.\r\n\r\nI'm thinking one way of tackling this would be to:\r\n\r\nComplain and exit early if the checkout is in a messy state, and suggesting running git stash to move the local changes aside.\r\nIf any of the cherry-picks fail do an immediate git reset --hard and move on to the next branch.\r\nDoes that approach sound reasonable?\r\n\r\n_Copied from original issue: Mariatta/chic_a_cherry_picker#15_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Mariatta","@type":"Person","name":"Mariatta"},"datePublished":"2017-03-16T01:13:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/45/core-workflow/issues/45"}