With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/",
but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name
for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good
compromise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When detaching the HEAD to the base commit, the "git checkout" command
could fail if, for example, upstream contains a file that would overrwrite
a local, untracked file. Unconditionally discarding the standard error
stream was done to squelch the progress and notices back when checkout
did not have -q option, but there is no reason to keep doing it anymore.
Noticed by Robert Shearman.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"merge" and "reset" leave the original point in history in ORIG_HEAD,
which makes it easy to go back to where you were before you inflict a
major damage to your history and realize that you do not like the result
at all. These days with reflog, we technically do not need to use
ORIG_HEAD, but it is a handy way nevertheless.
This teaches "am" and "rebase" (all forms --- the vanilla one that uses
"am" as its backend, "-m" variant that cherry-picks, and "--interactive")
to do the same.
The original idea and a partial implementation to do this only for "rebase
-m" was by Brian Gernhardt; this extends on his idea.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --continue" and friends gave nonsense errors when there is no
rebase in progress.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rebasing or stashing, chances are that you do not care about
dirty submodules, since they are not updated by those actions anyway.
So ignore the submodules' states.
Note: the submodule states -- as committed in the superproject --
will still be stashed and rebased, it is _just_ the state of the
submodule in the working tree which is ignored.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bd/tests:
Rename the test trash directory to contain spaces.
Fix tests breaking when checkout path contains shell metacharacters
Don't use the 'export NAME=value' in the test scripts.
lib-git-svn.sh: Fix quoting issues with paths containing shell metacharacters
test-lib.sh: Fix some missing path quoting
Use test_set_editor in t9001-send-email.sh
test-lib.sh: Add a test_set_editor function to safely set $VISUAL
git-send-email.perl: Handle shell metacharacters in $EDITOR properly
config.c: Escape backslashes in section names properly
git-rebase.sh: Fix --merge --abort failures when path contains whitespace
Conflicts:
t/t9115-git-svn-dcommit-funky-renames.sh
On some shells (notably /bin/sh on FreeBSD 6.1), the
construct
foo && ! bar | baz
is true if
foo && baz
whereas for most other shells (such as bash) is true if
foo && ! baz
We can work around this by specifying
foo && ! (bar | baz)
which works everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also update t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh to expose the bug.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches "git rebase [--onto O] A B" to omit an unnecessary checkout
of branch B before it goes on.
"git-rebase" originally was about rebasing the current branch to somewhere
else, and when the extra parameter to name which branch to rebase was
added, it defined the semantics to the safest but stupid "first switch to
the named branch and then operate exactly the same way as if we were
already on that branch".
But the first thing the real part of "rebase" does is to reset the work
tree and the index to the "onto" commit. Which means the "rebase that
branch" form switched the work tree to the tip of the branch only to
immediately switch again to another commit. This was wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rebasing changes that contain issues that the pre-commit hook flags
as problematic, the rebase cannot be continued. However, rebase is about
transplanting commits that are already made with as little distortion as
possible, and pre-commit check should not interfere.
Earlier, c5b09fe (Avoid update hook during git-rebase --interactive,
2007-12-19) fixed "rebase -i", but "rebase -m" shared the same issue.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, --abort would end by git resetting to ORIG_HEAD, but some
commands, such as git reset --hard (which happened in git rebase --skip,
but could just as well be typed by the user), would have already modified
ORIG_HEAD.
Just use the orig-head we store in $dotest instead.
[jc: cherry-picked from 48411d and 4947cf9 on 'master']
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Being in the project's top directory when starting or continuing a rebase
is not necessary since 533b703 (Allow whole-tree operations to be started
from a subdirectory, 2007-01-12).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new option --rebasing is used internally for rebase to tell am that
it is being used for its purpose. This would leave .dotest/rebasing to
help "completion" scripts tell if the ongoing operation is am or rebase.
Also the option at the same time stands for --binary, -3 and -k which
are always given when rebase drives am as its backend.
Using the information "am" leaves, git-completion.bash tells ongoing
rebase and am apart.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, --abort would end by git resetting to ORIG_HEAD, but some
commands, such as git reset --hard (which happened in git rebase --skip,
but could just as well be typed by the user), would have already modified
ORIG_HEAD.
Just use the orig-head we store in $dotest instead.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, many commands that
our scripts feed "HEAD" to would complain about the rev vs path
ambiguity. A solution is to form command line more carefully by
appending -- to them, which makes it clear that we mean HEAD rev not
HEAD file.
This patch would apply to maint.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ph/parseopt-sh:
git-quiltimport.sh fix --patches handling
git-am: -i does not take a string parameter.
sh-setup: don't let eval output to be shell-expanded.
git-sh-setup: fix parseopt `eval` string underquoting
Give git-am back the ability to add Signed-off-by lines.
git-rev-parse --parseopt
scripts: Add placeholders for OPTIONS_SPEC
Migrate git-repack.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-quiltimport.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-checkout.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt --keep-dashdash
Migrate git-instaweb.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-merge.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-am.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-clone to use git-rev-parse --parseopt
Migrate git-clean.sh to use git-rev-parse --parseopt.
Update git-sh-setup(1) to allow transparent use of git-rev-parse --parseopt
Add a parseopt mode to git-rev-parse to bring parse-options to shell scripts.
The --skip case was handled properly when rebasing without --merge,
but the --continue case was not.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you have a merge conflict and want to bypass the commit causing it,
you don't want to care about the dirty state of the working tree.
Also, don't git reset --hard HEAD in the rebase-skip test, so that the
lack of support for this is detected.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interactive version of rebase does all the operations on a detached
HEAD, so that after a successful rebase, <branch>@{1} is the pre-rebase
state. The reflogs of "HEAD" still show all the actions in detail.
This teaches the non-interactive version to do the same.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--text follows this line--
These commands currently lack OPTIONS_SPEC; allow people to
easily list with "git grep 'OPTIONS_SPEC=$'" what they can help
improving.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-rebase used to fail when run from a path containing a space.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-rebase used to fail when run from a path containing a space.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-svn: don't attempt to spawn pager if we don't want one
Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
User Manual: add a chapter for submodules
user-manual: don't assume refs are stored under .git/refs
Detect exec bit in more cases.
Conjugate "search" correctly in the git-prune-packed man page.
Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be
Documentation/git-lost-found.txt: drop unnecessarily duplicated name.
A lot of shell scripts contained stuff starting with
while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
and similar. I consider breaking out of the condition instead of the
body od the loop ugly, and the implied "true" value of the
non-matching case is not really obvious to humans at first glance. It
happens not to be obvious to some BSD shells, either, but that's
because they are not POSIX-compliant. In most cases, this has been
replaced by a straight condition using "test". "case" has the
advantage of being faster than "test" on vintage shells where "test"
is not a builtin. Since none of them is likely to run the git
scripts, anyway, the added readability should be worth the change.
A few loops have had their termination condition expressed
differently.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The extra shift here causes failure to parse any commandline including
the -C option.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pass --whitespace=<option> to git-apply. Since git-apply and git-am
expect this, I'm always surprised when I try to give it to git-rebase
and it doesn't work.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a topic branch is rebased, some of whose commits are already
cherry-picked upstream:
o--X--A--B--Y <- master
\
A--B--Z <- topic
then 'git rebase -m master' would report:
Already applied: 0001 Y
Already applied: 0002 Y
With this fix it reports the expected:
Already applied: 0001 A
Already applied: 0002 B
As an added bonus, this change also avoids 'echo' of a commit message,
which might contain escapements.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, "git rerere" was enabled by creating the directory
.git/rr-cache. That is definitely not in line with most other
features, which are enabled by a config variable.
So, check the config variable "rerere.enabled". If it is set
to "false" explicitely, do not activate rerere, even if
.git/rr-cache exists. This should help when you want to disable
rerere temporarily.
If "rerere.enabled" is not set at all, fall back to detection
of the directory .git/rr-cache.
[jc: with minimum tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Consider this history:
o--o-...-B <- origin
\ \
x--x--M--x--x <- master
In this situation, rebase considers master fully up-to-date and would
not do anything. However, if there were additional commits on origin,
the rebase would run and move the commits x on top of origin.
Here we change rebase to short-circuit out only if the history since origin
is strictly linear. Consequently, the above as well as a history like this
would be linearized:
o--o <- origin
\
x--x
\ \
x--M--x--x <- master
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't you just hate the fact sometimes, that git-rebase just applies
the patches, without any possibility to edit them, or rearrange them?
With "--interactive", git-rebase now lets you edit the list of patches,
so that you can reorder, edit and delete patches.
Such a list will typically look like this:
pick deadbee The oneline of this commit
pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can amend
that patch and/or its commit message, and by replacing it with "squash"
you can tell rebase to fold that patch into the patch before that.
It is derived from the script sent to the list in
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702252156190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command is part of the main porcelain making git-add more
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The rebase and merge commands used diff-tree to display the summary stats of
what files had changed from the operation. diff-tree does not read the
diff ui configuration options, so the diff.color setting was not used.
Have rebase and merge call diff rather than diff-tree, which does read the
diff ui options.
Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This simplifies the shell code, reduces its memory footprint, and
speeds things up. The performance improvements should be noticable
when git-rebase works on big commits.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When you want to amend the commit message of 3 commits before
the tip of the current branch, say 'master',
A--B--C--D--E(master)
it is sometimes handy to make your head detached at that commit
with:
$ git checkout HEAD~3 ;# check out B
$ git commit --amend ;# without modifying contents...
to create:
.B'(HEAD)
/
A--B--C--D--E(master)
and then rebase 'master' branch onto HEAD with this:
$ git rebase HEAD master
to result in:
.B'-C'-D'-E(master=HEAD)
/
A--B--C--D--E
However, the current code interprets HEAD after it switches to
the branch 'master', which means the rebase will not do
anything. You have to say something unwieldly like this
instead:
$ git rebase $(git rev-parse HEAD) master
This fixes it by expanding the $onto commit name before
switching to the target branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even
if context has changed a bit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the index wasn't clean, git-rebase would simply show the output from
git-diff-index with no further comment to the user.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates five commands (merge, pull, rebase, revert and cherry-pick)
so that they can be started from a subdirectory.
This may not actually be what we want to do. These commands are
inherently whole-tree operations, and an inexperienced user may
mistakenly expect a "git pull" from a subdirectory would merge
only the subdirectory the command started from.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the user tries to run a porcelainish command which requires
a working directory in a bare repository they may get unexpected
results which are difficult to predict and may differ from command
to command.
Instead we should detect that the current repository is a bare
repository and refuse to run the command there, as there is no
working directory associated with it.
[jc: updated Shawn's original somewhat -- bugs are mine.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If a three-way merge in git-rebase generates a conflict then we
should take advantage of git-merge-recursive's ability to include
the branch name of each side of the conflict hunk by setting the
GITHEAD_* environment variables.
In the case of rebase there aren't really two clear branches; we
have the branch we are rebasing onto, and we have the branch we are
currently rebasing. Since most conflicts will be arising between
the user's current branch and the branch they are rebasing onto
we assume the stuff that isn't in the current commit is the "onto"
branch and the stuff in the current commit is the "current" branch.
This assumption may however come up wrong if the user resolves one
conflict in such a way that it conflicts again on a future commit
also being rebased. In this case the user's prior resolution will
appear to be in the "onto" part of the hunk.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter
was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code
needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to
ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and
not the lower-level actions it invoked.
At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action
function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on
what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only
takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
An earlier commit made "reset --hard" chattier but leaking its
message from "git rebase" (which calls it when first rewinding
the current branch to prepare replaying our own changes) without
explanation was confusing, so add an extra message to mention
it. Inside restorestate in merge (which is rarely exercised
codepath, where more than one strategies are attempted),
resetting to the original state uses "reset --hard" -- this can
be squelched entirely.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Data in rr-cache isn't valid after a patch application is
skipped or and aborted, so our next commit could be misrecorded
as a resolution of that skipped/failed commit, which is wrong.
git-am --skip, git-rebase --skip/--abort will automatically
invoke git-rerere clear to avoid this.
Also, since git-am --resolved indicates a resolution was
succesful, remember to run git-rerere to record the resolution
(and not surprise the user when the next commit is made).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This reduces the number of conflicts when rebasing after a series of
patches to the same piece of code is committed upstream.
Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rob@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This renames merge-recursive written in Python to merge-recursive-old,
and makes merge-recur as a synonym to merge-recursive. We do not remove
merge-recur yet, but we will remove merge-recur and merge-recursive-old
in a few releases down the road.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previously, a rebasing operation with on a branch that is just tracking
an upstream branch would output a confusing "Nothing to do" due to no
patches being given to git-am.
The test brings the behaviour back into line with that of just before
e646c9c8c0.
Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rob@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* js/read-tree: (107 commits)
read-tree: move merge functions to the library
read-trees: refactor the unpack_trees() part
tar-tree: illustrate an obscure feature better
git.c: allow alias expansion without a git directory
setup_git_directory_gently: do not barf when GIT_DIR is given.
Build on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Call setup_git_directory() much earlier
Call setup_git_directory() early
Display an error from update-ref if target ref name is invalid.
Fix http-fetch
t4103: fix binary patch application test.
git-apply -R: binary patches are irreversible for now.
Teach git-apply about '-R'
Makefile: ssh-pull.o depends on ssh-fetch.c
log and diff family: honor config even from subdirectories
git-reset: detect update-ref error and report it.
lost-found: use fsck-objects --full
Teach git-http-fetch the --stdin switch
Teach git-local-fetch the --stdin switch
Make pull() support fetching multiple targets at once
...
During git-merge-recur development, you could set an environment
variable GIT_USE_RECUR_FOR_RECURSIVE to use WIP recur in place
of the recursive strategy.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is just an update for people being interested. Alex and me were
busy with that project for a few days now. While it has progressed nicely,
there are quite a couple TODOs in merge-recursive.c, just search for "TODO".
For impatient people: yes, it passes all the tests, and yes, according
to the evil test Alex did, it is faster than the Python script.
But no, it is not yet finished. Biggest points are:
- there are still three external calls
- in the end, it should not be necessary to write the index more than once
(just before exiting)
- a lot of things can be refactored to make the code easier and shorter
BTW we cannot just plug in git-merge-tree yet, because git-merge-tree
does not handle renames at all.
This patch is meant for testing, and as such,
- it compile the program to git-merge-recur
- it adjusts the scripts and tests to use git-merge-recur instead of
git-merge-recursive
- it provides "TEST", a script to execute the tests regarding -recursive
- it inlines the changes to read-cache.c (read_cache_from(), discard_cache()
and refresh_cache_entry())
Brought to you by Alex Riesen and Dscho
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation.
Use @@PERL@@ symbol and replace it with PERL_PATH_SQ everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Michal Rokos <michal.rokos@nextsoft.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
commit does not always succeed, so we'll have to check for
it in the absence of set -e. This fixes a regression
introduced in 9e4bc7dd1b
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There was a time when rebase --skip didn't work when used with
--merge, but that is no more so we don't need that message
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some implementations of "expr" (e.g. FreeBSD's) fail, if an
argument starts with a dash.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that we control the merge base selection, we won't be forced
into rolling things in that we wanted to skip beforehand.
Also, add a test to ensure this all works as intended.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We no longer have to recommit each patch to remove the parent
information we're rebasing since we're using the low-level merge
strategies directly instead of git-merge.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Enhance t3401-rebase-partial to test with --merge as well as
the standard am -3 strategy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of using 4-digit numbers to name commits being rebased,
just use "cmt.$msgnum" string, with $msgnum as a decimal number
without leading zero padding. This makes it possible to rebase
more than 9999 commits, but of more practical importance is that
the earlier code used "printf" to format already formatted
$msgnum and barfed when it counted up to 0008. In other words,
the old code was incapable of rebasing more than 7 commits, and
this fixes that problem.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
recursive merge relies on Python, and we can't perform
rename-aware merges without the recursive merge. So bail out
before trying it.
The test won't work w/o recursive merge, either, so skip that,
too.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This solves the problem of rebasing local commits against an
upstream that has renamed files.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git rebase [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
git rebase --continue
git rebase --abort
Add "--continue" to restart the rebase process after
manually resolving conflicts. The user is warned if
there are still differences between the index and the
working files.
Add "--abort" to restore the original branch, and
remove the .dotest working files.
Some minor additions to the git-rebase documentation.
[jc: fix that applies to the maintenance track has been dealt
with separately.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some words, e.g., `match', are special to expr(1), and cause strange
parsing effects. Track down all uses of expr and mangle the arguments
so that this isn't a problem.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I found a paper thin man page for git-rebase, but was quite happy to
see something much more useful in the usage statement of the script
when I went there to find out how this thing worked. Here it is
cleaned up slightly and expanded a bit into the actual documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows you to rewrite history a bit more flexibly, by
separating the other branch name and new branch point. By
default, the new branch point is the same as the tip of the
other branch as before, but you can specify where you graft the
rebased branch onto.
When you have this ancestry graph:
A---B---C topic
/
D---E---F---G master
$ git rebase --onto master~1 master topic
would rewrite the history to look like this:
A'\''--B'\''--C'\'' topic
/
D---E---F---G master
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This lets a hook to interfere a rebase and help prevent certain
branches from being rebased by mistake. A sample hook to show
how to prevent a topic branch that has already been merged into
publish branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix bugs in git-rebase wrt rebasing another branch than
the current HEAD, rebasing with a dirty working dir,
and rebasing a proper decendant of the target branch.
[jc: with a bit of hand-merging]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When switching to another branch and rebasing it in a one-go, it
failed to update the variable that holds the branch head, and
did not detect fast-forward situation correctly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When a .dotest from a previously failed rebase or patch
application exists, rebase got confused and tried to apply
mixture of what was already there and what is being rebased.
Check the existence of the directory and barf.
It failed with an mysterious "fatal: cannot read mbox" message
if the branch being rebased is fully in sync with the base.
Also if the branch is a proper descendant of the base, there is
no need to run rebase logic. Prevent these from happening by
checking where the merge-base is.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now all the users of this script detect its exit status and die,
complaining that it is outside git repository. So move the code
that dies from all callers to git-sh-setup script.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The current rebase implementation finds commits in our tree but
not in the upstream tree using git-cherry, and tries to apply
them using git-cherry-pick (i.e. always use 3-way) one by one.
Which is fine, but when some of the changes do not apply
cleanly, it punts, and punts badly.
Suppose you have commits A-B-C-D-E since you forked from the
upstream and submitted the changes for inclusion. You fetch
from upstream head U and find that B has been picked up. You
run git-rebase to update your branch, which tries to apply
changes contained in A-C-D-E, in this order, but replaying of C
fails, because the upstream got changes that touch the same area
from elsewhere.
Now what?
It notes that fact, and goes ahead to apply D and E, and at the
very end tells you to deal with C by hand. Even if you somehow
managed to replay C on top of the result, you would now end up
with ...-B-...-U-A-D-E-C.
Breaking the order between B and others was the conscious
decision made by the upstream, so we would not worry about it,
and even if it were worrisome, it is too late for us to fix now.
What D and E do may well depend on having C applied before them,
which is a problem for us.
This rewrites rebase to use git-format-patch piped to git-am,
and when the patch does not apply, have git-am fall back on
3-way merge. The updated diff/patch pair knows how to apply
trivial binary patches as long as the pre- and post-images are
locally available, so this should work on a repository with
binary files as well.
The primary benefit of this change is that it makes rebase
easier to use when some of the changes do not replay cleanly.
In the "unapplicable patch in the middle" case, this "rebase"
works like this:
- A series of patches in e-mail form is created that records
what A-C-D-E do, and is fed to git-am. This is stored in
.dotest/ directory, just like the case you tried to apply
them from your mailbox. Your branch is rewound to the tip of
upstream U, and the original head is kept in .git/ORIG_HEAD,
so you could "git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD" in case the end
result is really messy.
- Patch A applies cleanly. This could either be a clean patch
application on top of rewound head (i.e. same as upstream
head), or git-am might have internally fell back on 3-way
(i.e. it would have done the same thing as git-cherry-pick).
In either case, a rebased commit A is made on top of U.
- Patch C does not apply. git-am stops here, with conflicts to
be resolved in the working tree. Yet-to-be-applied D and E
are still kept in .dotest/ directory at this point. What the
user does is exactly the same as fixing up unapplicable patch
when running git-am:
- Resolve conflict just like any merge conflicts.
- "git am --resolved --3way" to continue applying the patches.
- This applies the fixed-up patch so by definition it had
better apply. "git am" knows the patch after the fixed-up
one is D and then E; it applies them, and you will get the
changes from A-C-D-E commits on top of U, in this order.
I've been using this without noticing any problem, and as people
may know I do a lot of rebases.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This uses the git-update-ref command in scripts for safer updates.
Also places where we used to read HEAD ref by using "cat" were fixed
to use git-rev-parse. This will matter when we start using symbolic
references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
