Many times I've ran paper test trying to SHUTDOWN
the existing test server, only for it to see that my target folder
is missing (for whatever reason), and it try to build paper to make
the jar exists.
Well, the patch process will wipe out any uncommitted changes, causing
loss of work.
Now we will only build patches if your missing your entire Paper-Server
folder, and only trigger a mvn compile if the jar is missing.
ForgeFlower is better than Spigots FernFlower at decompiling the source.
However, in order to maintain the CraftBukkit patches, we must keep
using spigots for the primary.
However, for any file that we import on top of Spigots imported files
there is nothing stopping us from using better decompiled files.
So these changes will use ForgeFlower to maintain a better set of
decomped files, so anything we add on top of Paper can start off
in a better spot.
Instead of checking whether it was set previously, setting it to false,
then setting it back to true if it was true before, just use the
command-line argument in git to override the config for that command.
Using a variable makes it pretty painless to do.
Aikar
Shane Freeder
Kyle Wood
Zach Brown