Dedup log initialisation code.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/mergetools.py b/tools/mergetools.py
index 1334186..109e9d4 100644
--- a/tools/mergetools.py
+++ b/tools/mergetools.py
@@ -489,6 +489,15 @@ def terminate_child_procs():
         #print >>sys.stderr, "DEBUG: terminating pid", p.pid
         p.terminate()
 
+def loginit(args, fname):
+    logfmt = '%(asctime)s %(message)s'
+    loglevel = getattr(logging, args.loglevel.upper())
+    if args.logdir is None:
+        logging.basicConfig(format=logfmt, level=loglevel)
+    else:
+        logging.basicConfig(format=logfmt, level=loglevel,
+                            filename=args.logdir + "/" + fname)
+
 class Status:
     def __init__(self, path):
         self.path = path