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Phillip Wood
b7de153bd9 create_autostash(): remove unneeded parameter
The default_reflog parameter of create_autostash() is passed to
reset_head(). However as creating a stash does not involve updating
any refs the parameter is not used by reset_head(). Removing the
parameter from create_autostash() simplifies the callers.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-26 12:08:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
223a1bfb58 Merge branch 'js/retire-preserve-merges'
The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.

* js/retire-preserve-merges:
  sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
  rebase: remove a no-longer-used function
  rebase: stop mentioning the -p option in comments
  rebase: remove obsolete code comment
  rebase: drop the internal `rebase--interactive` command
  git-svn: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
  rebase: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
  pull: remove support for `--rebase=preserve`
  tests: stop testing `git rebase --preserve-merges`
  remote: warn about unhandled branch.<name>.rebase values
  t5520: do not use `pull.rebase=preserve`
2021-10-18 15:47:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
404c4a5462 Merge branch 'ab/designated-initializers'
Code clean-up.

* ab/designated-initializers:
  cbtree.h: define cb_init() in terms of CBTREE_INIT
  *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
  *.h _INIT macros: don't specify fields equal to 0
  *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom
  submodule-config.h: remove unused SUBMODULE_INIT macro
2021-10-11 10:21:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5a5ea9763c Merge branch 'pw/rebase-reread-todo-after-editing'
The code to re-read the edited todo list in "git rebase -i" was
made more robust.

* pw/rebase-reread-todo-after-editing:
  rebase: fix todo-list rereading
  sequencer.c: factor out a function
2021-10-06 13:40:12 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
f69a6e4f07 *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
Move various *_INIT macros to use designated initializers. This helps
readability. I've only picked those leftover macros that were not
touched by another in-flight series of mine which changed others, but
also how initialization was done.

In the case of SUBMODULE_ALTERNATE_SETUP_INIT I've left an explicit
initialization of "error_mode", even though
SUBMODULE_ALTERNATE_ERROR_IGNORE itself is defined as "0". Let's not
peek under the hood and assume that enum fields we know the value of
will stay at "0".

The change to "TESTSUITE_INIT" in "t/helper/test-run-command.c" was
part of an earlier on-list version[1] of c90be786da (test-tool
run-command: fix flip-flop init pattern, 2021-09-11).

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-1.1-0aa4523ab6e-20210909T130849Z-avarab@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27 14:48:00 -07:00
Phillip Wood
2b88fe0603 rebase: fix todo-list rereading
54fd3243da ("rebase -i: reread the todo list if `exec` touched it",
2017-04-26) sought to reread the todo list after running an exec
command only if it had been changed. To accomplish this it checks the
stat data of the todo list after running an exec command to see if it
has changed. Unfortunately there are two problems, firstly the
implementation is buggy we actually reread the list after each exec
which is quadratic in the number of commit lookups and secondly the
design is predicated on using nanosecond time stamps which are not the
default.

The implementation bug stems from the fact that we write a new todo
list to disk before running each command but do not update the stat
data to reflect this[1].

The design problem is that it is possible for the user to edit the
todo list without changing its size or inode which means we have to
rely on the mtime to tell us if it has changed. Unfortunately unless
git is built with USE_NSEC it is possible for the original and edited
list to share the same mtime.

Ideally "git rebase --edit-todo" would set a flag that we would then
check in sequencer.c. Unfortunately this is approach will not work as
there are scripts in the wild that write to the todo list directly
without running "git rebase --edit-todo". Instead of relying on stat
data this patch simply reads the possibly edited todo list and
compares it to the original with memcmp(). This is much faster than
reparsing the todo list each time. This patch reduces the time to run

   git rebase -r -xtrue v2.32.0~100 v2.32.0

which runs 419 exec commands by 6.6%. For comparison fixing the
implementation bug in stat based approach reduces the time by a
further 1.4% and is indistinguishable from never rereading the todo
list.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191125131833.GD23183@szeder.dev/

Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-24 08:56:28 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
17919c3585 sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
The function to add the `exec` commands to the todo list only needed to
be public API because it was not only used internally by the sequencer,
but also by `git rebase --preserve-merges`.

Now that that mode has been removed, we no longer need that function to
be scoped publicly.

Helped-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-07 21:45:33 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
767a4ca648 sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.

These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.

Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-30 16:35:36 -07:00
Elijah Newren
39edfd5cbc sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages
save_opts() should save any non-default values.  It was intended to do
this, but since most options in struct replay_opts default to 0, it only
saved non-zero values.  Unfortunately, this does not always work for
options.edit.  Roughly speaking, options.edit had a default value of 0
for cherry-pick but a default value of 1 for revert.  Make save_opts()
record a value whenever it differs from the default.

options.edit was also overly simplistic; we had more than two cases.
The behavior that previously existed was as follows:

                       Non-conflict commits    Right after Conflict
    revert             Edit iff isatty(0)      Edit (ignore isatty(0))
    cherry-pick        No edit                 See above
    Specify --edit     Edit (ignore isatty(0)) See above
    Specify --no-edit  (*)                     See above

    (*) Before stopping for conflicts, No edit is the behavior.  After
        stopping for conflicts, the --no-edit flag is not saved so see
        the first two rows.

However, the expected behavior is:

                       Non-conflict commits    Right after Conflict
    revert             Edit iff isatty(0)      Edit iff isatty(0)
    cherry-pick        No edit                 Edit iff isatty(0)
    Specify --edit     Edit (ignore isatty(0)) Edit (ignore isatty(0))
    Specify --no-edit  No edit                 No edit

In order to get the expected behavior, we need to change options.edit
to a tri-state: unspecified, false, or true.  When specified, we follow
what it says.  When unspecified, we need to check whether the current
commit being created is resolving a conflict as well as consulting
options.action and isatty(0).  While at it, add a should_edit() utility
function that compresses options.edit down to a boolean based on the
additional information for the non-conflict case.

continue_single_pick() is the function responsible for resuming after
conflict cases, regardless of whether there is one commit being picked
or many.  Make this function stop assuming edit behavior in all cases,
so that it can correctly handle !isatty(0) and specific requests to not
edit the commit message.

Reported-by: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-31 14:10:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a1f95951ef Merge branch 'en/merge-ort-api-null-impl'
Preparation for a new merge strategy.

* en/merge-ort-api-null-impl:
  merge,rebase,revert: select ort or recursive by config or environment
  fast-rebase: demonstrate merge-ort's API via new test-tool command
  merge-ort-wrappers: new convience wrappers to mimic the old merge API
  merge-ort: barebones API of new merge strategy with empty implementation
2020-11-18 13:32:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c042c455d4 Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-orig-head'
"git rebase -i" did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly.

* pw/rebase-i-orig-head:
  rebase -i: simplify get_revision_ranges()
  rebase -i: use struct object_id when writing state
  rebase -i: use struct object_id rather than looking up commit
  rebase -i: stop overwriting ORIG_HEAD buffer
2020-11-18 13:32:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6a44c9c0d0 Merge branch 'jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix-simplify'
Code simplification.

* jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix-simplify:
  am, sequencer: stop parsing our own committer ident
2020-11-09 14:06:28 -08:00
Phillip Wood
a2bb10d06d rebase -i: use struct object_id when writing state
Rather than passing a string around pass the struct object_id that the
string was created from call oid_hex() when we write the file.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-04 14:10:41 -08:00
Phillip Wood
f3e27a02d5 rebase -i: use struct object_id rather than looking up commit
We already have a struct object_id containing the oid that we want to
set ORIG_HEAD to so use that rather than converting it to a string and
then calling get_oid() on that string.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-04 14:10:41 -08:00
Elijah Newren
14c4586c2d merge,rebase,revert: select ort or recursive by config or environment
Allow the testsuite to run where it treats requests for "recursive" or
the default merge algorithm via consulting the environment variable
GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM which is expected to either be "recursive" (the
old traditional algorithm) or "ort" (the new algorithm).

Also, allow folks to pick the new algorithm via config setting.  It
turns out builtin/merge.c already had a way to allow users to specify a
different default merge algorithm: pull.twohead.  Rather odd
configuration name (especially to be in the 'pull' namespace rather than
'merge') but it's there.  Add that same configuration to rebase,
cherry-pick, and revert.

This required updating the various callsites that called merge_trees()
or merge_recursive() to conditionally call the new API, so this serves
as another demonstration of what the new API looks and feels like.
There are almost certainly some callsites that have not yet been
modified to work with the new merge algorithm, but this represents the
ones that I have been testing with thus far.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-02 16:35:50 -08:00
Jeff King
2020451c5b am, sequencer: stop parsing our own committer ident
For the --committer-date-is-author-date option of git-am and git-rebase,
we format the committer ident, then re-parse it to find the name and
email, and then feed those back to fmt_ident().

We can simplify this by handling it all at the time of the fmt_ident()
call. We pass in the appropriate getenv() results, and if they're not
present, then our WANT_COMMITTER_IDENT flag tells fmt_ident() to fill in
the appropriate value from the config. Which is exactly what
git_committer_ident() was doing under the hood.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-26 09:59:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9c31b19dd0 Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-more-options'
"git rebase -i" learns a bit more options.

* pw/rebase-i-more-options:
  t3436: do not run git-merge-recursive in dashed form
  rebase: add --reset-author-date
  rebase -i: support --ignore-date
  rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
  am: stop exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
  rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag
2020-09-03 12:37:01 -07:00
Phillip Wood
a3894aad67 rebase -i: support --ignore-date
Rebase is implemented with two different backends - 'apply' and
'merge' each of which support a different set of options. In
particular the apply backend supports a number of options implemented
by 'git am' that are not implemented in the merge backend. This means
that the available options are different depending on which backend is
used which is confusing. This patch adds support for the --ignore-date
option to the merge backend. This option uses the current time as the
author date rather than reusing the original author date when
rewriting commits. We take care to handle the combination of
--ignore-date and --committer-date-is-author-date in the same way as
the apply backend.

Original-patch-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-19 15:19:59 -07:00
Phillip Wood
7573cec52c rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
Rebase is implemented with two different backends - 'apply' and
'merge' each of which support a different set of options. In
particular the apply backend supports a number of options implemented
by 'git am' that are not implemented in the merge backend. This means
that the available options are different depending on which backend is
used which is confusing. This patch adds support for the
--committer-date-is-author-date option to the merge backend. This
option uses the author date of the commit that is being rewritten as
the committer date when the new commit is created.

Original-patch-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-17 11:58:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bf10200871 Merge branch 'dl/merge-autostash'
"git merge" learns the "--autostash" option.

* dl/merge-autostash: (22 commits)
  pull: pass --autostash to merge
  t5520: make test_pull_autostash() accept expect_parent_num
  merge: teach --autostash option
  sequencer: implement apply_autostash_oid()
  sequencer: implement save_autostash()
  sequencer: unlink autostash in apply_autostash()
  sequencer: extract perform_autostash() from rebase
  rebase: generify create_autostash()
  rebase: extract create_autostash()
  reset: extract reset_head() from rebase
  rebase: generify reset_head()
  rebase: use apply_autostash() from sequencer.c
  sequencer: rename stash_sha1 to stash_oid
  sequencer: make apply_autostash() accept a path
  rebase: use read_oneliner()
  sequencer: make read_oneliner() extern
  sequencer: configurably warn on non-existent files
  sequencer: make read_oneliner() accept flags
  sequencer: make file exists check more efficient
  sequencer: stop leaking buf
  ...
2020-04-29 16:15:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d6d561db1c Merge branch 'jt/rebase-allow-duplicate'
Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be
already in the upstream, without checking first.

* jt/rebase-allow-duplicate:
  rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits
2020-04-22 13:43:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c7d8f69da5 Merge branch 'en/rebase-no-keep-empty'
"git rebase" (again) learns to honor "--no-keep-empty", which lets
the user to discard commits that are empty from the beginning (as
opposed to the ones that become empty because of rebasing).  The
interactive rebase also marks commits that are empty in the todo.

* en/rebase-no-keep-empty:
  rebase: fix an incompatible-options error message
  rebase: reinstate --no-keep-empty
  rebase -i: mark commits that begin empty in todo editor
2020-04-22 13:43:00 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
0fcb4f6b62 rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits
When rebasing against an upstream that has had many commits since the
original branch was created:

 O -- O -- ... -- O -- O (upstream)
  \
   -- O (my-dev-branch)

it must read the contents of every novel upstream commit, in addition to
the tip of the upstream and the merge base, because "git rebase"
attempts to exclude commits that are duplicates of upstream ones. This
can be a significant performance hit, especially in a partial clone,
wherein a read of an object may end up being a fetch.

Add a flag to "git rebase" to allow suppression of this feature. This
flag only works when using the "merge" backend.

This flag changes the behavior of sequencer_make_script(), called from
do_interactive_rebase() <- run_rebase_interactive() <-
run_specific_rebase() <- cmd_rebase(). With this flag, limit_list()
(indirectly called from sequencer_make_script() through
prepare_revision_walk()) will no longer call cherry_pick_list(), and
thus PATCHSAME is no longer set. Refraining from setting PATCHSAME both
means that the intermediate commits in upstream are no longer read (as
shown by the test) and means that no PATCHSAME-caused skipping of
commits is done by sequencer_make_script(), either directly or through
make_script_with_merges().

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Elijah Newren
b9cbd2958f rebase: reinstate --no-keep-empty
Commit d48e5e21da ("rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the
default", 2020-02-15) turned --keep-empty (for keeping commits which
start empty) into the default.  The logic underpinning that commit was:

  1) 'git commit' errors out on the creation of empty commits without an
     override flag
  2) Once someone determines that the override is worthwhile, it's
     annoying and/or harmful to required them to take extra steps in
     order to keep such commits around (and to repeat such steps with
     every rebase).

While the logic on which the decision was made is sound, the result was
a bit of an overcorrection.  Instead of jumping to having --keep-empty
being the default, it jumped to making --keep-empty the only available
behavior.  There was a simple workaround, though, which was thought to
be good enough at the time.  People could still drop commits which
started empty the same way the could drop any commits: by firing up an
interactive rebase and picking out the commits they didn't want from the
list.  However, there are cases where external tools might create enough
empty commits that picking all of them out is painful.  As such, having
a flag to automatically remove start-empty commits may be beneficial.

Provide users a way to drop commits which start empty using a flag that
existed for years: --no-keep-empty.  Interpret --keep-empty as
countermanding any previous --no-keep-empty, but otherwise leaving
--keep-empty as the default.

This might lead to some slight weirdness since commands like
  git rebase --empty=drop --keep-empty
  git rebase --empty=keep --no-keep-empty
look really weird despite making perfect sense (the first will drop
commits which become empty, but keep commits that started empty; the
second will keep commits which become empty, but drop commits which
started empty).  However, --no-keep-empty was named years ago and we are
predominantly keeping it for backward compatibility; also we suspect it
will only be used rarely since folks already have a simple way to drop
commits they don't want with an interactive rebase.

Reported-by: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Reported-by: Sami Boukortt <sami@boukortt.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-11 14:15:52 -07:00
Denton Liu
804fe31557 sequencer: implement apply_autostash_oid()
Split apply_save_autostash() into apply_autostash_oid() and
apply_save_autostash() where the former operates on an OID string and
the latter reads the OID from a file before passing it into
apply_save_autostash_oid().

This function is required for a future commmit which will rely on being
able to apply an autostash whose OID is stored as a string.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-10 09:28:02 -07:00
Denton Liu
12b6e1367a sequencer: implement save_autostash()
Extract common functionality of apply_autostash() into
apply_save_autostash() and use it to implement save_autostash(). This
function will be used in a future commit.

The difference between save_autostash() and apply_autostash() is that
the former does not try to apply the stash. It skips that step and
just stores the created entry in the stash reflog.

This is useful in the case where we abort an operation when an autostash
is present but we don't want to dirty the worktree with the application
of the stash. For example, in a future commit, we will implement
`git merge --autostash`. Since merges can be aborted using
`git reset --hard`, we'd make use of save_autostash() to save the
autostash entry instead of applying it to the worktree thus keeping the
worktree undirtied.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-10 09:28:02 -07:00
Denton Liu
0816f1dff8 sequencer: extract perform_autostash() from rebase
Lib-ify the autostash code by extracting perform_autostash() from rebase
into sequencer. In a future commit, this will be used to implement
`--autostash` in other builtins.

This patch is best viewed with `--color-moved`.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-10 09:28:02 -07:00
Denton Liu
86ed00aff4 rebase: use apply_autostash() from sequencer.c
The apply_autostash() function in builtin/rebase.c is similar enough to
the apply_autostash() function in sequencer.c that they are almost
interchangeable, except for the type of arg they accept. Make the
sequencer.c version extern and use it in rebase.

The rebase version was introduced in 6defce2b02 (builtin rebase: support
`--autostash` option, 2018-09-04) as part of the shell to C conversion.
It opted to duplicate the function because, at the time, there was
another in-progress project converting interactive rebase from shell to
C as well and they did not want to clash with them by refactoring
sequencer.c version of apply_autostash(). Since both efforts are long
done, we can freely combine them together now.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-10 09:28:02 -07:00
Denton Liu
c20de8bec6 sequencer: make read_oneliner() extern
The function read_oneliner() is a generally useful util function.
Instead of hiding it as a static function within sequencer.c, extern it
so that it can be reused by others.

This patch is best viewed with --color-moved.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-07 16:57:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f085189f14 Merge branch 'pw/advise-rebase-skip'
The mechanism to prevent "git commit" from making an empty commit
or amending during an interrupted cherry-pick was broken during the
rewrite of "git rebase" in C, which has been corrected.

* pw/advise-rebase-skip:
  commit: give correct advice for empty commit during a rebase
  commit: encapsulate determine_whence() for sequencer
  commit: use enum value for multiple cherry-picks
  sequencer: write CHERRY_PICK_HEAD for reword and edit
  cherry-pick: check commit error messages
  cherry-pick: add test for `--skip` advice in `git commit`
  t3404: use test_cmp_rev
2020-03-25 13:57:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c22bd9ff9 Merge branch 'en/rebase-backend'
"git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the
machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing
"--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral
equivalent of "format-patch piped to am").  The rebase.backend
configuration variable can be set to customize.

* en/rebase-backend:
  rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends
  rebase: change the default backend from "am" to "merge"
  rebase: make the backend configurable via config setting
  rebase tests: repeat some tests using the merge backend instead of am
  rebase tests: mark tests specific to the am-backend with --am
  rebase: drop '-i' from the reflog for interactive-based rebases
  git-prompt: change the prompt for interactive-based rebases
  rebase: add an --am option
  rebase: move incompatibility checks between backend options a bit earlier
  git-rebase.txt: add more details about behavioral differences of backends
  rebase: allow more types of rebases to fast-forward
  t3432: make these tests work with either am or merge backends
  rebase: fix handling of restrict_revision
  rebase: make sure to pass along the quiet flag to the sequencer
  rebase, sequencer: remove the broken GIT_QUIET handling
  t3406: simplify an already simple test
  rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that become empty
  rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the default
  t3404: directly test the behavior of interest
  git-rebase.txt: update description of --allow-empty-message
2020-03-02 15:07:19 -08:00
Elijah Newren
e98c4269c8 rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that become empty
As established in the previous commit and commit b00bf1c9a8
(git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default, 2018-06-27), the
behavior for rebase with different backends in various edge or corner
cases is often more happenstance than design.  This commit addresses
another such corner case: commits which "become empty".

A careful reader may note that there are two types of commits which would
become empty due to a rebase:

  * [clean cherry-pick] Commits which are clean cherry-picks of upstream
    commits, as determined by `git log --cherry-mark ...`.  Re-applying
    these commits would result in an empty set of changes and a
    duplicative commit message; i.e. these are commits that have
    "already been applied" upstream.

  * [become empty] Commits which are not empty to start, are not clean
    cherry-picks of upstream commits, but which still become empty after
    being rebased.  This happens e.g. when a commit has changes which
    are a strict subset of the changes in an upstream commit, or when
    the changes of a commit can be found spread across or among several
    upstream commits.

Clearly, in both cases the changes in the commit in question are found
upstream already, but the commit message may not be in the latter case.

When cherry-mark can determine a commit is already upstream, then
because of how cherry-mark works this means the upstream commit message
was about the *exact* same set of changes.  Thus, the commit messages
can be assumed to be fully interchangeable (and are in fact likely to be
completely identical).  As such, the clean cherry-pick case represents a
case when there is no information to be gained by keeping the extra
commit around.  All rebase types have always dropped these commits, and
no one to my knowledge has ever requested that we do otherwise.

For many of the become empty cases (and likely even most), we will also
be able to drop the commit without loss of information -- but this isn't
quite always the case.  Since these commits represent cases that were
not clean cherry-picks, there is no upstream commit message explaining
the same set of changes.  Projects with good commit message hygiene will
likely have the explanation from our commit message contained within or
spread among the relevant upstream commits, but not all projects run
that way.  As such, the commit message of the commit being rebased may
have reasoning that suggests additional changes that should be made to
adapt to the new base, or it may have information that someone wants to
add as a note to another commit, or perhaps someone even wants to create
an empty commit with the commit message as-is.

Junio commented on the "become-empty" types of commits as follows[1]:

    WRT a change that ends up being empty (as opposed to a change that
    is empty from the beginning), I'd think that the current behaviour
    is desireable one.  "am" based rebase is solely to transplant an
    existing history and want to stop much less than "interactive" one
    whose purpose is to polish a series before making it publishable,
    and asking for confirmation ("this has become empty--do you want to
    drop it?") is more appropriate from the workflow point of view.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqfu1fswdh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

I would simply add that his arguments for "am"-based rebases actually
apply to all non-explicitly-interactive rebases.  Also, since we are
stating that different cases should have different defaults, it may be
worth providing a flag to allow users to select which behavior they want
for these commits.

Introduce a new command line flag for selecting the desired behavior:
    --empty={drop,keep,ask}
with the definitions:
    drop: drop commits which become empty
    keep: keep commits which become empty
    ask:  provide the user a chance to interact and pick what to do with
          commits which become empty on a case-by-case basis

In line with Junio's suggestion, if the --empty flag is not specified,
pick defaults as follows:
    explicitly interactive: ask
    otherwise: drop

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-16 15:40:42 -08:00
Elijah Newren
d48e5e21da rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the default
Different rebase backends have different treatment for commits which
start empty (i.e. have no changes relative to their parent), and the
--keep-empty option was added at some point to allow adjusting behavior.
The handling of commits which start empty is actually quite similar to
commit b00bf1c9a8 (git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default,
2018-06-27), which pointed out that the behavior for various backends is
often more happenstance than design.  The specific change made in that
commit is actually quite relevant as well and much of the logic there
directly applies here.

It makes a lot of sense in 'git commit' to error out on the creation of
empty commits, unless an override flag is provided.  However, once
someone determines that there is a rare case that merits using the
manual override to create such a commit, it is somewhere between
annoying and harmful to have to take extra steps to keep such
intentional commits around.  Granted, empty commits are quite rare,
which is why handling of them doesn't get considered much and folks tend
to defer to existing (accidental) behavior and assume there was a reason
for it, leading them to just add flags (--keep-empty in this case) that
allow them to override the bad defaults.  Fix the interactive backend so
that --keep-empty is the default, much like we did with
--allow-empty-message.  The am backend should also be fixed to have
--keep-empty semantics for commits that start empty, but that is not
included in this patch other than a testcase documenting the failure.

Note that there was one test in t3421 which appears to have been written
expecting --keep-empty to not be the default as correct behavior.  This
test was introduced in commit 00b8be5a4d ("add tests for rebasing of
empty commits", 2013-06-06), which was part of a series focusing on
rebase topology and which had an interesting original cover letter at
https://lore.kernel.org/git/1347949878-12578-1-git-send-email-martinvonz@gmail.com/
which noted
    Your input especially appreciated on whether you agree with the
    intent of the test cases.
and then went into a long example about how one of the many tests added
had several questions about whether it was correct.  As such, I believe
most the tests in that series were about testing rebase topology with as
many different flags as possible and were not trying to state in general
how those flags should behave otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-16 15:40:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4dbeecba27 Merge branch 'ag/edit-todo-drop-check'
Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when
"rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure.

* ag/edit-todo-drop-check:
  rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo'
  sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c
2020-02-14 12:54:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d8b8d59054 Merge branch 'ag/rebase-avoid-unneeded-checkout'
"git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the
tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected.

* ag/rebase-avoid-unneeded-checkout:
  rebase -i: stop checking out the tip of the branch to rebase
2020-02-14 12:54:21 -08:00
Alban Gruin
5a5445d878 rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo'
When set to "warn" or "error", `rebase.missingCommitsCheck' would make
`rebase -i' warn if the user removed commits from the todo list to
prevent mistakes.  Unfortunately, `rebase --edit-todo' and `rebase
--continue' don't take it into account.

This adds the ability for `rebase --edit-todo' and `rebase --continue'
to check if commits were dropped by the user.  As both edit_todo_list()
and complete_action() parse the todo list and check for dropped commits,
the code doing so in the latter is removed to reduce duplication.
`edit_todo_list_advice' is removed from sequencer.c as it is no longer
used there.

This changes when a backup of the todo list is made.  Until now, it was
saved only once, before the initial edit.  Now, it is also made if the
original todo list has no errors or no dropped commits.  Thus, the
backup should be error-free.  Without this, sequencer_continue()
(`rebase --continue') could only compare the current todo list against
the original, unedited list.  Before this change, this file was only
used by edit_todo_list() and `rebase -p' to create the backup before
the initial edit, and check_todo_list_from_file(), only used by
`rebase -p' to check for dropped commits after its own initial edit.

If the edited list has an error, a file, `dropped', is created to
report the issue.  Otherwise, it is deleted.  Usually, the edited list
is compared against the list before editing, but if this file exists,
it will be compared to the backup.  Also, if the file exists,
sequencer_continue() checks the list for dropped commits.  If the
check was performed every time, it would fail when resuming a rebase
after resolving a conflict, as the backup will contain commits that
were picked, but they will not be in the new list.  It's safe to
ignore this check if `dropped' does not exist, because that means that
no errors were found at the last edition, so any missing commits here
have already been picked.

Five tests are added to t3404.  The tests for
`rebase.missingCommitsCheck = warn' and `rebase.missingCommitsCheck =
error' have a similar structure.  First, we start a rebase with an
incorrect command on the first line.  Then, we edit the todo list,
removing the first and the last lines.  This demonstrates that
`--edit-todo' notices dropped commits, but not when the command is
incorrect.  Then, we restore the original todo list, and edit it to
remove the last line.  This demonstrates that if we add a commit after
the initial edit, then remove it, `--edit-todo' will notice that it
has been dropped.  Then, the actual rebase takes place.  In the third
test, it is also checked that `--continue' will refuse to resume the
rebase if commits were dropped.  The fourth test checks that no errors
are raised when resuming a rebase after resolving a conflict, the fifth
checks that no errors are raised when editing the todo list after
pausing the rebase.

Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 14:14:57 -08:00
Alban Gruin
1da5874c1b sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c
The message contained in `edit_todo_list_advice' (sequencer.c) is
printed after the initial edit of the todo list if it can't be parsed or
if commits were dropped.  This is done either in complete_action() for
`rebase -i', or in check_todo_list_from_file() for `rebase -p'.

Since we want to add this check when editing the list, we also want to
use this message from edit_todo_list() (rebase-interactive.c).  To this
end, check_todo_list_from_file() is moved to rebase-interactive.c, and
`edit_todo_list_advice' is copied there.  In the next commit,
complete_action() will stop using it, and `edit_todo_list_advice' will
be removed from sequencer.c.

Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 14:13:41 -08:00
Alban Gruin
767a9c417e rebase -i: stop checking out the tip of the branch to rebase
One of the first things done when using a sequencer-based
rebase (ie. `rebase -i', `rebase -r', or `rebase -m') is to make a todo
list.  This requires knowledge of the commit range to rebase.  To get
the oid of the last commit of the range, the tip of the branch to rebase
is checked out with prepare_branch_to_be_rebased(), then the oid of the
head is read.  After this, the tip of the branch is not even modified.
The `am' backend, on the other hand, does not check out the branch.

On big repositories, it's a performance penalty: with `rebase -i', the
user may have to wait before editing the todo list while git is
extracting the branch silently, and "quiet" rebases will be slower than
`am'.

Since we already have the oid of the tip of the branch in
`opts->orig_head', it's useless to switch to this commit.

This removes the call to prepare_branch_to_be_rebased() in
do_interactive_rebase(), and adds a `orig_head' parameter to
get_revision_ranges().  prepare_branch_to_be_rebased() is removed as it
is no longer used.

This introduces a visible change: as we do not switch on the tip of the
branch to rebase, no reflog entry is created at the beginning of the
rebase for it.

Unscientific performance measurements, performed on linux.git, are as
follow:

  Before this patch:

    $ time git rebase -m --onto v4.18 463fa44eec2fef50~ 463fa44eec2fef50

    real    0m8,940s
    user    0m6,830s
    sys     0m2,121s

  After this patch:

    $ time git rebase -m --onto v4.18 463fa44eec2fef50~ 463fa44eec2fef50

    real    0m1,834s
    user    0m0,916s
    sys     0m0,206s

Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-24 10:29:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d924528d8 Revert "Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'"
This reverts commit 5d9324e0f4, reversing
changes made to c58ae96fc4.

The topic turns out to be too buggy for real use.

cf. <f2fe7437-8a48-3315-4d3f-8d51fe4bb8f1@gmail.com>
2020-01-12 13:25:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5d9324e0f4 Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'
"git rebase -i" learned a few options that are known by "git
rebase" proper.

* ra/rebase-i-more-options:
  rebase -i: finishing touches to --reset-author-date
  rebase: add --reset-author-date
  rebase -i: support --ignore-date
  sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename
  rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
  sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields
  rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag
2019-12-10 13:11:41 -08:00
Phillip Wood
901ba7b1ef commit: encapsulate determine_whence() for sequencer
Working out which command wants to create a commit requires detailed
knowledge of the sequencer internals and that knowledge is going to
increase in subsequent commits. With that in mind lets encapsulate that
knowledge in sequencer.c rather than spreading it into builtin/commit.c.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-06 09:32:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5c8c0a0d78 Merge branch 'pw/post-commit-from-sequencer'
"rebase -i" ceased to run post-commit hook by mistake in an earlier
update, which has been corrected.

* pw/post-commit-from-sequencer:
  sequencer: run post-commit hook
  move run_commit_hook() to libgit and use it there
  sequencer.h fix placement of #endif
  t3404: remove uneeded calls to set_fake_editor
  t3404: set $EDITOR in subshell
  t3404: remove unnecessary subshell
2019-11-10 18:02:12 +09:00
Rohit Ashiwal
08187b4cba rebase -i: support --ignore-date
rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the author date
by changing it to the committer (current) date. Let's add the same
for interactive machinery.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-02 15:37:12 +09:00
Rohit Ashiwal
cbd8db17ac rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the committer date
by changing it to the author date. Let's add the same for
interactive machinery.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-02 15:36:23 +09:00
Phillip Wood
12bb7a540a sequencer.h fix placement of #endif
Commit 65850686cf ("rebase -i: rewrite write_basic_state() in C",
2018-08-28) accidentially added new function declarations after
the #endif at the end of the include guard.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-16 10:30:51 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
917a319ea5 Merge branch 'js/rebase-r-strategy'
"git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.

* js/rebase-r-strategy:
  t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import
  rebase -r: do not (re-)generate root commits with `--root` *and* `--onto`
  t3418: test `rebase -r` with merge strategies
  t/lib-rebase: prepare for testing `git rebase --rebase-merges`
  rebase -r: support merge strategies other than `recursive`
  t3427: fix another incorrect assumption
  t3427: accommodate for the `rebase --merge` backend having been replaced
  t3427: fix erroneous assumption
  t3427: condense the unnecessarily repetitive test cases into three
  t3427: move the `filter-branch` invocation into the `setup` case
  t3427: simplify the `setup` test case significantly
  t3427: add a clarifying comment
  rebase: fold git-rebase--common into the -p backend
  sequencer: the `am` and `rebase--interactive` scripts are gone
  .gitignore: there is no longer a built-in `git-rebase--interactive`
  t3400: stop referring to the scripted rebase
  Drop unused git-rebase--am.sh
2019-09-18 11:50:07 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
e1fac531ea rebase -r: do not (re-)generate root commits with --root *and* --onto
When rebasing a complete commit history onto a given commit, it is
pretty obvious that the root commits should be rebased on top of said
given commit.

To test this, let's kill two birds with one stone and add a test case to
t3427-rebase-subtree.sh that not only demonstrates that this works, but
also that `git rebase -r` works with merge strategies now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-31 12:24:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d97c62c828 Merge branch 'ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip'
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.

* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
  cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
  cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
  sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
  sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
  sequencer: add advice for revert
2019-07-19 11:30:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Rohit Ashiwal
de81ca3f36 cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
git am or rebase have a --skip flag to skip the current commit if the
user wishes to do so. During a cherry-pick or revert a user could
likewise skip a commit, but needs to use 'git reset' (or in the case
of conflicts 'git reset --merge'), followed by 'git (cherry-pick |
revert) --continue' to skip the commit. This is more annoying and
sometimes confusing on the users' part. Add a `--skip` option to make
skipping commits easier for the user and to make the commands more
consistent.

In the next commit, we will change the advice messages hence finishing
the process of teaching revert and cherry-pick "how to skip commits".

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-02 12:08:08 -07:00