Download moz-phab from the latest release and place it on your system path.

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Download moz-phab from the latest release and place it on your system path.

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Download moz-phab from the latest release and store it anywhere (e.g. C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab).

You must have Python 2.7 installed, and preferably in your path.

Run python with the full path to moz-phab: python C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab.

If you are using MinTTY (e.g. via Git's Bash) you'll need to run it through winpty as with any other Python script: winpty python C:\Users\myuser\phabricator\moz-phab.

moz-phab has an INI style configuration file to control defaults: ~/.moz-phab-config

This file will be created if it doesn't exist.

[ui]
no_ansi = False

[vcs]
safe_mode = False

[arc]
arc_command = arc

[submit]
auto_submit = False
always_blocking = False
warn_untracked = True

[updater]
self_last_check = <time>
arc_last_check = <time>

• ui.no_ansi : never use ANSI colours (default: auto-detected).
• vcs.safe_mode : use only safe VCS settings (default: false). Use --safe-mode option to switch it on for a one-time usage.
• arc.arc_command : command to use when calling the Arcanist CLI. (default: "arc")
• submit.auto_submit : when true the confirmation prompt will be skipped (default: false).
• submit.always_blocking : when true reviewers in commit descriptions will be marked as blocking. reviewers specified on the command line override this setting (default: false).
• submit.warn_untracked : when true show a warning if there are uncommitted or untracked changes in the working directory (default: true)
• updater.self_last_check : epoch timestamp (local timezone) indicating the last time an update check was performed for this script. set to -1 to disable this check.
• updater.arc_last_check : epoch timestamp (local timezone) indicating the last time an update was performed for arc. set to -1 to disable this check.

moz-phab can also be configured via the following environmental variables:

• DEBUG : enabled debugging output (default: disabled)
• UPDATE_FILE : when self-updating write to this file instead of __file__

The simplest invocation is

  $ moz-phab submit [start_rev] [end_rev]

If no positional arguments (start_rev/end_rev) are given, the range of commits is automatically determined, starting with the first non-public, non-obsolete changeset (for Mercurial) or first unpublished commit (for Git) and ending with the currently checked-out changeset. If at least one argument is given moz-phab is following the underlying VCS's log behavior. The first argument is interpreted differently in Mercurial (as inclusive) and Git (exclusive). If only one argument is given the end of range is again interpreted as the currently checked-out changeset. If both arguments are given - the second one is interpreted as inclusive.

Bug IDs and reviewers are parsed out of commit messages by default. You can set a reviewer as blocking by appending an exclamation mark to the reviewer's nick, e.g. r=foo!. If submit.always_blocking is set to true (see above), reviewers will always be set to blocking regardless.

A bug ID can also be set for every revision in the series with the --bug option, which overrides any bug IDs in commit messages. Similarly, reviewers can be set for every revision in the series with --reviewer (regular reviewers) and/or --blocker (blocking reviewers), which again overrides any reviewers in commit messages.

Run moz-phab submit -h for more options for submitting revisions.

To submit updates to a commit series, run moz-phab in the same way with the same arguments, that is, specifying the full original range of commits. Note that, while inserting and amending commits should work fine, reordering commits is not yet supported, and deleting commits will leave the associated revisions open, which should be abandoned manually. See bug 1481539 for planned fixes. Also note that "fix-up" commits are not yet supported; see bug 1481542.

moz-phab will periodically check for updates and display a notice when a new version is available. To update moz-phab, run moz-phab self-update.

Note that if you do not have Python in your path, you will need to run <path to python>/python <path to moz-phab>/moz-phab instead of moz-phab.

We use Bugzilla to track development.

File bugs in Bugzilla under Conduit :: Review Wrapper.

We have strict requirements for moz-phab development:

• must only use standard libraries
• must be a single file for easy deployment

Unit tests can be executed with python -m unittest discover. Integration tests require to have access to git, hg with evolve extension and patch commands.

All python code must be formatted with black using the default settings.