patman: Add a -D option to enable debugging
Most users don't want to see traceback errors. Add an option to enable
them for debugging. Disable them by default.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/patman/main.py b/tools/patman/main.py
index 77f187e..b960008 100755
--- a/tools/patman/main.py
+++ b/tools/patman/main.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
import os
import re
import sys
+import traceback
import unittest
if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@
default=-1, help='Automatically create patches from top n commits')
parser.add_argument('-e', '--end', type=int, default=0,
help='Commits to skip at end of patch list')
+ parser.add_argument('-D', '--debug', action='store_true',
+ help='Enabling debugging (provides a full traceback on error)')
parser.add_argument('-s', '--start', dest='start', type=int,
default=0, help='Commit to start creating patches from (0 = HEAD)')
@@ -98,6 +101,9 @@
if __name__ != "__main__":
pass
+if not args.debug:
+ sys.tracebacklimit = 0
+
# Run our meagre tests
if args.cmd == 'test':
import doctest