Teach update_from_chromium.py to preserve certain files through roll.

mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py

Index: mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py
diff --git a/mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py b/mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py
index 5d2bd4475f757e725a77eb6a82e80bfa4701f4d2..24c46ef31bd4244837093d99e8d3e12206ba0abe 100755
--- a/mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py
+++ b/mojo/tools/roll/update_from_chromium.py
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ net_dirs = [
 files_to_copy = ["sandbox/sandbox_export.h",
     ".clang-format"]
 
+# The contents of these files before the roll will be preserved after the roll,
+# even though they live in directories rolled in from Chromium.
+files_not_to_roll = [ "build/config/mojo.gni" ]
+
 dirs = dirs_to_snapshot + net_dirs
 
 def chromium_rev_number(src_commit):
@@ -123,8 +127,16 @@ def main():
       "snapshot of things imported from chromium.")
   parser.add_argument("chromium_dir", help="chromium source dir")
   args = parser.parse_args()
+  pre_roll_commit = system(
+      ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=mojo_root_dir).strip()
+
   rev(args.chromium_dir)
   patch.patch()
+
+  print "Restoring files whose contents don't track Chromium"
+  for f in files_not_to_roll:
+    system(["git", "checkout", pre_roll_commit, "--", f], cwd=mojo_root_dir)
+    commit("Restored pre-roll versions of files that don't get rolled")

[jamesr, 2015/02/02 21:26:56]

commit after the loop (you don't want to commit for every single file) and skip
this commit if the files_to_not_roll is empty

[blundell, 2015/02/03 08:29:48]

Done.

   return 0
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":