patman: Quieten down the alias checking

When a tag is used in a patch subject (e.g. "tag: rest of message") and
it cannot be found as an alias, patman currently reports a fatal error,
unless -t is provided, in which case it reports a warning.

Experience suggest that the fatal error is not very useful. Instead,
default to reporting a warning, with -t tell patman to ignore it
altogether.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/patman/main.py b/tools/patman/main.py
index c4e4d80d425..4e0a3533e9f 100755
--- a/tools/patman/main.py
+++ b/tools/patman/main.py
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ send.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true', dest='dry_run',
 send.add_argument('-r', '--in-reply-to', type=str, action='store',
                   help="Message ID that this series is in reply to")
 send.add_argument('-t', '--ignore-bad-tags', action='store_true',
-                  default=False, help='Ignore bad tags / aliases')
+                  default=False,
+                  help='Ignore bad tags / aliases (default=warn)')
 send.add_argument('-T', '--thread', action='store_true', dest='thread',
                   default=False, help='Create patches as a single thread')
 send.add_argument('--cc-cmd', dest='cc_cmd', type=str, action='store',
@@ -176,6 +177,9 @@ elif args.cmd == 'send':
         command.Run(pager, fname)
 
     else:
+        # If we are not processing tags, no need to warning about bad ones
+        if not args.process_tags:
+            args.ignore_bad_tags = True
         control.send(args)
 
 # Check status of patches in patchwork