1471990 - [tryselect] Implement |mach try again|

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

One of the big downsides to |mach try fuzzy| is that if you use the interactive finder, there's no way to repeat your last action. If you want to run the same push again, you have to manually re-select all the same tasks a second time.

It is possible to save presets, but this is fairly heavy-weight and (more) permanent. Sometimes you just want to re-run a push a few times and forget about it. It's also possible to craft the query on the command line with -q, but then you don't get the immediate visual feedback, so you can't be sure that you typed out the right things without actually pushing.

I've had an idea to implement |mach try again| for awhile now. Everytime you generate a try_task_config.json via `fuzzy`, `empty` or any other subcommands that may exist in the future, it'll get stored in a history file under ~/.mozbuild. Then running |mach try again| will simply re-run the most recent try_task_config.json.

You'll also be able to view the whole history via |mach try again --list| and select a specific one via |mach try again --index <index>|.

Example usage will be:
$ ./mach try fuzzy
<select a bunch of tasks>
$ ./mach try again
<re-pushes exact same set of tasks>

I currently have my local patches based on top of bug 1413922.

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Attachment: Bug 1471990 - Implement |mach try again| to repeat your last 'try_task_config.json' try push

One of the big downsides to |mach try fuzzy| is that if you use the interactive
finder, there's no way to repeat your last action. If you want to run the same
push again, you have to manually re-select all the same tasks a second time.

It is possible to save presets, but this is fairly heavy-weight and (more)
permanent. Sometimes you just want to re-run a push a few times and forget
about it. It's also possible to craft the query on the command line with -q,
but then you don't get the immediate visual feedback, so you can't be sure that
you typed out the right things without actually pushing.

With |mach try again|, everytime you generate a try_task_config.json via
'fuzzy', 'empty' or any other subcommands that may exist in the future, it'll
get stored in a history file under ~/.mozbuild. Then running |mach try again|
will simply re-run the most recent try_task_config.json.

You'll also be able to view the whole history via |mach try again --list| and
select a specific try_task_config.json (i.e not the most recent one) via
|mach try again --index <index>|.

Example usage will be:
$ ./mach try fuzzy
<select a bunch of tasks>
$ ./mach try again
<re-pushes exact same set of tasks>

MozReview-Commit-ID: 3EZjVCy08uq

Depends on D1808.

Comment 2

[Phabricator Automation]

Comment on attachment 8988582 [details]
Bug 1471990 - Implement |mach try again| to repeat your last 'try_task_config.json' try push

Geoff Brown [:gbrown] has approved the revision.

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1867

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8c423f75eb77
Implement |mach try again| to repeat your last 'try_task_config.json' try push r=gbrown

Comment 4

[Bogdan Tara[:bogdan_tara]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8c423f75eb77

Comment 5

[Tom Prince [:tomprince]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr60/rev/1e622a1af606