Print better information during Chromium sync.
Many users are having problems with the initial sync.
Let's print a bit more information and advice on how
to recover from an aborted sync.
R=phoglund@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/42229004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#8617}
git-svn-id: http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@8617 4adac7df-926f-26a2-2b94-8c16560cd09d
diff --git a/sync_chromium.py b/sync_chromium.py
index abea33b..cc850f4 100755
--- a/sync_chromium.py
+++ b/sync_chromium.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
import os
import subprocess
import sys
+import textwrap
# Bump this whenever the algorithm changes and you need bots/devs to re-sync,
# ignoring the .last_sync_chromium file
@@ -104,6 +105,9 @@
else:
cache_path = '/b/git-cache'
else:
+ # Verbose, but not as verbose as on the buildbots.
+ args.append('-v')
+
# Support developers setting the cache_dir in .gclient.
cache_path = get_cache_dir()
@@ -143,6 +147,15 @@
if target_os_list:
args += ['--deps=' + target_os_list]
+ print textwrap.dedent("""\
+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | NOTICE: This sync of Chromium will take a very long time the first |
+ | time you checkout WebRTC as several gigabytes of data has |
+ | to be downloaded. Make sure you don't abort this download |
+ | or you will have to issue a 'gclient sync' followed by a |
+ | 'git auto-svn' to complete the initial setup. If that |
+ | fails, you have to wipe everything clean and start over. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------+""")
print 'Running "%s" in %s' % (' '.join(args), opts.chromium_dir)
ret = subprocess.call(args, cwd=opts.chromium_dir, env=env)
if ret == 0:
