Fix a regression in 2.35 that roke the use of "rebase" and "stash"
in a secondary worktree.
* en/keep-cwd:
sequencer, stash: fix running from worktree subdir
Remove the now-unused "failure_errno" parameter from the
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() signature. In my recent 96f6623ada (Merge
branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2021-11-29) series we made all of its
callers explicitly request the errno via an output parameter.
As that series shows all but one caller ended up passing in a
boilerplate "ignore_errno", since they only cared about whether the
return value was NULL or not, i.e. if the ref could be resolved.
There was one small issue with that series fixed with a follow-up in
31e3912369 (Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2022-01-14) a small
bug in that series was fixed.
After those two there was one caller left in sequencer.c that used the
"failure_errno', but as of the preceding commit it uses a boilerplate
"ignore_errno" instead.
This leaves the public refs API without any use of "failure_errno" at
all. We could still do with a bit of cleanup and generalization
between refs.c and refs/files-backend.c before the "reftable"
integration lands, but that's all internal to the reference code
itself.
So let's remove this output parameter. Not only isn't it used now, but
it's unlikely that we'll want it again in the future. We'd like to
slowly move the refs API to a more file-backend independent way of
communicating error codes, having it use a "failure_errno" was only
the first step in that direction. If this or any other function needs
to communicate what specifically is wrong with the requested "refname"
it'll be better to have the function set some output enum of
well-defined error states than piggy-backend on "errno".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change code that was faithfully migrated to the new "resolve_errno"
API in ed90f04155 (refs API: make resolve_ref_unsafe() not set errno,
2021-10-16) to stop caring about the errno at all.
When we fail to resolve "HEAD" after the sequencer runs it doesn't
really help to say what the "errno" value is, since the fake backend
errno may or may not reflect anything real about the state of the
".git/HEAD". With the upcoming reftable backend this fakery will
become even more pronounced.
So let's just die() instead of die_errno() here. This will also help
simplify the refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() API. This was the only user of
it that wasn't ignoring the "failure_errno" output parameter.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commits bc3ae46b42 ("rebase: do not attempt to remove
startup_info->original_cwd", 2021-12-09) and 0fce211ccc ("stash: do not
attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd", 2021-12-09), we wanted to
allow the subprocess to know which directory the parent process was
running from, so that the subprocess could protect it. However...
When run from a non-main worktree, setup_git_directory() will note
that the discovered git directory
(/PATH/TO/.git/worktree/non-main-worktree) does not match
DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT (see setup_discovered_git_dir()), and
decide to set GIT_DIR in the environment. This matters because...
Whenever git is run with the GIT_DIR environment variable set, and
GIT_WORK_TREE not set, it presumes that '.' is the working tree. So...
This combination results in the subcommand being very confused about
the working tree. Fix it by also setting the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable along with setting cmd.dir.
A possibly more involved fix we could consider for later would be to
make setup.c set GIT_WORK_TREE whenever (a) it discovers both the git
directory and the working tree and (b) it decides to set GIT_DIR in the
environment. I did not attempt that here as such would be too big of a
change for a 2.35.1 release.
Test-case-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many git commands that deal with working tree files try to remove a
directory that becomes empty (i.e. "git switch" from a branch that
has the directory to another branch that does not would attempt
remove all files in the directory and the directory itself). This
drops users into an unfamiliar situation if the command was run in
a subdirectory that becomes subject to removal due to the command.
The commands have been taught to keep an empty directory if it is
the directory they were started in to avoid surprising users.
* en/keep-cwd:
t2501: simplify the tests since we can now assume desired behavior
dir: new flag to remove_dir_recurse() to spare the original_cwd
dir: avoid incidentally removing the original_cwd in remove_path()
stash: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
rebase: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
clean: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
symlinks: do not include startup_info->original_cwd in dir removal
unpack-trees: add special cwd handling
unpack-trees: refuse to remove startup_info->original_cwd
setup: introduce startup_info->original_cwd
t2501: add various tests for removing the current working directory
"git rebase -x" by mistake started exporting the GIT_DIR and
GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when the command was rewritten
in C, which has been corrected.
* en/rebase-x-wo-git-dir-env:
sequencer: do not export GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE for 'exec'
API clean-up.
* ab/run-command:
run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array"
difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management
run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args"
run-command API users: use strvec_push(), not argv construction
run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction
run-command tests: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment
run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment
upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern
worktree: stop being overly intimate with run_command() internals
"git rebase -x" added an unnecessary 'exec' instructions before
'noop', which has been corrected.
* en/rebase-x-fix:
sequencer: avoid adding exec commands for non-commit creating commands
Since rebase spawns a `checkout` subprocess, make sure we run that from
the startup_info->original_cwd directory, so that the checkout process
knows to protect that directory.
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commands executed from `git rebase --exec` can give different behavior
from within that environment than they would outside of it, due to the
fact that sequencer.c exports both GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE. For
example, if the relevant script calls something like
git -C ../otherdir log --format=%H --no-walk
the user may be surprised to find that the command above does not show a
commit hash from ../otherdir, because $GIT_DIR prevents automatic gitdir
detection and makes the -C option useless.
This is a regression in behavior from the original legacy
implemented-in-shell rebase. It is perhaps rare for it to cause
problems in practice, especially since most small problems that were
caused by this area of bugs has been fixed-up in the past in a way that
masked the particular bug observed without fixing the real underlying
problem.
An explanation of how we arrived at the current situation is perhaps
merited. The setting of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE done by sequencer.c
arose from a sequence of historical accidents:
* When rebase was implemented as a shell command, it would call
git-sh-setup, which among other things would set GIT_DIR -- but not
export it. This meant that when rebase --exec commands were run via
/bin/sh -c "$COMMAND"
they would not inherit the GIT_DIR setting. The fact that GIT_DIR
was not set in the run $COMMAND is the behavior we'd like to restore.
* When the rebase--helper builtin was introduced to allow incrementally
replacing shell with C code, we had an implementation that was half
shell, half C. In particular, commit 18633e1a22 ("rebase -i: use the
rebase--helper builtin", 2017-02-09) added calls to
exec git rebase--helper ...
which caused rebase--helper to inherit the GIT_DIR environment
variable from the shell. git's setup would change the environment
variable from an absolute path to a relative one (".git"), but would
leave it set. This meant that when rebase --exec commands were run
via
run_command_v_opt(...)
they would inherit the GIT_DIR setting.
* In commit 09d7b6c6fa ("sequencer: pass absolute GIT_DIR to exec
commands", 2017-10-31), it was noted that the GIT_DIR caused problems
with some commands; e.g.
git rebase --exec 'cd subdir && git describe' ...
would have GIT_DIR=.git which was invalid due to the change to the
subdirectory. Instead of questioning why GIT_DIR was set, that commit
instead made sequencer change GIT_DIR to be an absolute path and
explicitly export it via
argv_array_pushf(&child_env, "GIT_DIR=%s", absolute_path(get_git_dir()));
run_command_v_opt_cd_env(..., child_env.argv)
* In commit ab5e67d751 ("sequencer: pass absolute GIT_WORK_TREE to exec
commands", 2018-07-14), it was noted that when GIT_DIR is set but
GIT_WORK_TREE is not, that we do not discover GIT_WORK_TREE but just
assume it is '.'. That is incorrect if trying to run commands from a
subdirectory. However, rather than question why GIT_DIR was set, that
commit instead also added GIT_WORK_TREE to the list of things to
export.
Each of the above problems would have been fixed automatically when
git-rebase became a full builtin, had it not been for the fact that
sequencer.c started exporting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE in the interim.
Stop exporting them now.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--exec <cmd>` is documented as
Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the final
history.
...
If --autosquash is used, "exec" lines will not be appended for the
intermediate commits, and will only appear at the end of each
squash/fixup series.
Unfortunately, it would also add exec commands after non-pick
operations, such as 'no-op', which could be seen for example with
git rebase -i --exec true HEAD
todo_list_add_exec_commands() intent was to insert exec commands after
each logical pick, while trying to consider a chains of fixup and squash
commits to be part of the pick before it. So it would keep an 'insert'
boolean tracking if it had seen a pick or merge, but not write the exec
command until it saw the next non-fixup/squash command. Since that
would make it miss the final exec command, it had some code that would
check whether it still needed to insert one at the end, but instead of a
simple
if (insert)
it had a
if (insert || <condition that is always true>)
That's buggy; as per the docs, we should only add exec commands for
lines that create commits, i.e. only if insert is true. Fix the
conditional.
There was one testcase in the testsuite that we tweak for this change;
it was introduced in 54fd3243da ("rebase -i: reread the todo list if
`exec` touched it", 2017-04-26), and was merely testing that after an
exec had fired that the todo list would be re-read. The test at the
time would have worked given any revision at all, though it would only
work with 'HEAD' as a side-effect of this bug. Since we're fixing this
bug, choose something other than 'HEAD' for that test.
Finally, add a testcase that verifies when we have no commits to pick,
that we get no exec lines in the generated todo list.
Reported-by: Nikita Bobko <nikitabobko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "remainder" of hn/refs-errno-cleanup topic.
* ab/refs-errno-cleanup: (21 commits)
refs API: post-migration API renaming [2/2]
refs API: post-migration API renaming [1/2]
refs API: don't expose "errno" in run_transaction_hook()
refs API: make expand_ref() & repo_dwim_log() not set errno
refs API: make resolve_ref_unsafe() not set errno
refs API: make refs_ref_exists() not set errno
refs API: make refs_resolve_refdup() not set errno
refs tests: ignore ignore errno in test-ref-store helper
refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's find_shared_symref()
refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's add_head_info()
refs API: make files_copy_or_rename_ref() et al not set errno
refs API: make loose_fill_ref_dir() not set errno
refs API: make resolve_gitlink_ref() not set errno
refs API: remove refs_read_ref_full() wrapper
refs/files: remove "name exist?" check in lock_ref_oid_basic()
reflog tests: add --updateref tests
refs API: make refs_rename_ref_available() static
refs API: make parse_loose_ref_contents() not set errno
refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno
refs API: add a version of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() with "errno"
...
Change a pattern of hardcoding an "argv" array size, populating it and
assigning to the "argv" member of "struct child_process" to instead
use "strvec_pushl()" to add data to the "args" member.
This implements the same behavior as before in fewer lines of code,
and moves us further towards being able to remove the "argv" member in
a subsequent commit.
Since we've entirely removed the "argv" variable(s) we can be sure
that no potential logic errors of the type discussed in a preceding
commit are being introduced here, i.e. ones where the local "argv" was
being modified after the assignment to "struct child_process"'s
"argv".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
baf8ec8d3a (rebase -r: don't write .git/MERGE_MSG when
fast-forwarding, 2021-08-20) stopped reading the author script in
run_git_commit() when rewording a commit. This is normally safe
because "git commit --amend" preserves the authorship. However if the
user passes "--committer-date-is-author-date" then we need to read the
author date from the author script when rewording. Fix this regression
by tightening the check for when it is safe to skip reading the author
script.
Reported-by: Jonas Kittner <jonas.kittner@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leakfix.
* ab/unpack-trees-leakfix:
sequencer: fix a memory leak in do_reset()
sequencer: add a "goto cleanup" to do_reset()
unpack-trees: don't leak memory in verify_clean_subdirectory()
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`
Rename the transitory refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function to
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), now that all callers of the old function
have learned to pass in a "failure_errno" parameter.
The coccinelle semantic patch added in the preceding commit works, but
I couldn't figure out how to get spatch(1) to re-flow these argument
lists (and sometimes make lines way too long), so this rename was done
with:
perl -pi -e 's/refs_werrres_ref_unsafe/refs_resolve_ref_unsafe/g' \
$(git grep -l refs_werrres_ref_unsafe -- '*.c')
But after that "make contrib/coccinelle/refs.cocci.patch" comes up
empty, so the result would have been the same. Let's remove that
transitory semantic patch file, we won't need to retain it for any
other in-flight changes, refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() only existed within
this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the resolve_ref_unsafe() wrapper function to use the underlying
refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() directly.
From a reading of the callers I determined that the only one who cared
about errno was a sequencer.c caller added in e47c6cafcb (commit:
move print_commit_summary() to libgit, 2017-11-24), I'm migrating it
to using refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() directly.
This adds another "set errno" instance, but in this case it's OK and
idiomatic. We are setting it just before calling die_errno(). We could
have some hypothetical die_errno_var(&saved_errno, ...) here, but I
don't think it's worth it. The problem with errno is subtle action at
distance, not this sort of thing. We already use this pattern in a
couple of places in wrapper.c
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mostly preliminary clean-up in the hook API.
* ab/config-based-hooks-1:
hook-list.h: add a generated list of hooks, like config-list.h
hook.c users: use "hook_exists()" instead of "find_hook()"
hook.c: add a hook_exists() wrapper and use it in bugreport.c
hook.[ch]: move find_hook() from run-command.c to hook.c
Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment
Makefile: don't perform "mv $@+ $@" dance for $(GENERATED_H)
Makefile: stop hardcoding {command,config}-list.h
Makefile: mark "check" target as .PHONY
Various fixes in code paths that move untracked files away to make room.
* en/removing-untracked-fixes:
Documentation: call out commands that nuke untracked files/directories
Comment important codepaths regarding nuking untracked files/dirs
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of locally deleted file
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of unmerged file
Change unpack_trees' 'reset' flag into an enum
Remove ignored files by default when they are in the way
unpack-trees: make dir an internal-only struct
unpack-trees: introduce preserve_ignored to unpack_trees_options
read-tree, merge-recursive: overwrite ignored files by default
checkout, read-tree: fix leak of unpack_trees_options.dir
t2500: add various tests for nuking untracked files
Fix a memory leak introduced in 9055e401dd (sequencer: introduce new
commands to reset the revision, 2018-04-25), which called
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain() without a corresponding call to
clear_unpack_trees_porcelain().
This introduces a change in behavior in that we now start calling
clear_unpack_trees_porcelain() even without having called the
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain(). That's OK, that clear function, like
most others, will accept a zero'd out struct.
This inches us closer to passing various tests in
"t34*.sh" (e.g. "t3434-rebase-i18n.sh"), but because they have so many
other memory leaks in revisions.c this doesn't make any test file or
even a single test pass.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure code that's mostly added in 9055e401dd (sequencer:
introduce new commands to reset the revision, 2018-04-25) to avoid
code duplication, and to make freeing other resources easier in a
subsequent commit.
It's safe to initialize "tree_desc" to be zero'd out in order to
unconditionally free desc.buffer, it won't be initialized on the first
couple of "goto"'s.
There are three earlier "return"'s in this function which should
probably be made to use this new "cleanup" too, per [1] it looks like
they're leaving behind stale locks. But let's not try to fix every
potential bug here now, I'm just trying to narrowly plug a memory
leak.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BH=3DP-dXRCphY53-3eZd1TU8h5GY_M12nnbEGm-UYB9Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
Change several commands to remove ignored files by default when they are
in the way. Since some commands (checkout, merge) take a
--no-overwrite-ignore option to allow the user to configure this, and it
may make sense to add that option to more commands (and in the case of
merge, actually plumb that configuration option through to more of the
backends than just the fast-forwarding special case), add little
comments about where such flags would be used.
Incidentally, this fixes a test failure in t7112.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, every caller of unpack_trees() that wants to ensure ignored
files are overwritten by default needs to:
* allocate unpack_trees_options.dir
* flip the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag in unpack_trees_options.dir->flags
* call setup_standard_excludes
AND then after the call to unpack_trees() needs to
* call dir_clear()
* deallocate unpack_trees_options.dir
That's a fair amount of boilerplate, and every caller uses identical
code. Make this easier by instead introducing a new boolean value where
the default value (0) does what we want so that new callers of
unpack_trees() automatically get the appropriate behavior. And move all
the handling of unpack_trees_options.dir into unpack_trees() itself.
While preserve_ignored = 0 is the behavior we feel is the appropriate
default, we defer fixing commands to use the appropriate default until a
later commit. So, this commit introduces several locations where we
manually set preserve_ignored=1. This makes it clear where code paths
were previously preserving ignored files when they should not have been;
a future commit will flip these to instead use a value of 0 to get the
behavior we want.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new hook_exists() function instead of find_hook() where the
latter was called in boolean contexts. This make subsequent changes in
a series where we further refactor the hook API clearer, as we won't
conflate wanting to get the path of the hook with checking for its
existence.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the find_hook() function from run-command.c to a new hook.c
library. This change establishes a stub library that's pretty
pointless right now, but will see much wider use with Emily Shaffer's
upcoming "configuration-based hooks" series.
Eventually all the hook related code will live in hook.[ch]. Let's
start that process by moving the simple find_hook() function over
as-is.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
This code is heavily indented and obscures the high level logic within
the loop. Let's move it to its own function before modifying it in the
next commit. Note that there is a subtle change in behavior if the
todo list cannot be reread. Previously todo_list->current was
incremented before returning, now it returns immediately.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various mergy operations have been prepared to work efficiently
with the sparse index.
* ds/mergies-with-sparse-index:
sparse-index: integrate with cherry-pick and rebase
sequencer: ensure full index if not ORT strategy
t1092: add cherry-pick, rebase tests
merge-ort: expand only for out-of-cone conflicts
merge: make sparse-aware with ORT
diff: ignore sparse paths in diffstat
Code clean up to migrate callers from older advice_config[] based
API to newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.
* ab/retire-advice-config:
advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variables
advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
The advice message that "git cherry-pick" gives when it asks
conflicted replay of a commit to be resolved by the end user has
been updated.
* zh/cherry-pick-advice:
cherry-pick: use better advice message
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.
* js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked:
sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
The sequencer is used by 'cherry-pick' and 'rebase' to sequence a list
of operations that modify the index. Since we intend to remove the need
for 'command_requires_full_index', we need to ensure the sparse index is
expanded every time it is written to disk between these steps. That is,
unless the merge strategy is 'ort' where the index can remain sparse
throughout.
There are two main places to be extra careful about a full index:
1. Right before calling merge_trees(), ensure the index is full. This
happens within an 'else' where the 'if' block checks if the 'ort'
strategy is selected.
2. During read_and_refresh_cache(), the index might be written to disk
and converted to sparse in the process. Ensure it expands back to
full afterwards by checking if the strategy is _not_ 'ort'. This
'if' statement is the logical negation of the 'if' in item (1).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
* pw/rebase-r-fixes:
rebase -r: fix merge -c with a merge strategy
rebase -r: don't write .git/MERGE_MSG when fast-forwarding
rebase -i: add another reword test
rebase -r: make 'merge -c' behave like reword
Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
$GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
corrected.
* pw/rebase-skip-final-fix:
rebase --continue: remove .git/MERGE_MSG
rebase --apply: restore some tests
t3403: fix commit authorship
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>
Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy.
* en/ort-becomes-the-default:
Update docs for change of default merge backend
Change default merge backend from recursive to ort
Documentation updates.
* en/merge-strategy-docs:
Update error message and code comment
merge-strategies.txt: add coverage of the `ort` merge strategy
git-rebase.txt: correct out-of-date and misleading text about renames
merge-strategies.txt: fix simple capitalization error
merge-strategies.txt: avoid giving special preference to patience algorithm
merge-strategies.txt: do not imply using copy detection is desired
merge-strategies.txt: update wording for the resolve strategy
Documentation: edit awkward references to `git merge-recursive`
directory-rename-detection.txt: small updates due to merge-ort optimizations
git-rebase.txt: correct antiquated claims about --rebase-merges
In c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25), a new API for
accessing advice variables was introduced and deprecated `advice_config`
in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`.
This patch ports all but two uses which read the status of the global
`advice_` variables over to the new `advice_enabled` API. We'll deal
with advice_add_embedded_repo and advice_graft_file_deprecated
separately.
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
$(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
* js/expand-runtime-prefix:
expand_user_path: allow in-flight topics to keep using the old name
interpolate_path(): allow specifying paths relative to the runtime prefix
Use a better name for the function interpolating paths
expand_user_path(): clarify the role of the `real_home` parameter
expand_user_path(): remove stale part of the comment
tests: exercise the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature
"git cherry-pick", upon seeing a conflict, says:
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'
as if running "git commit" to conclude the resolution of
this single step were the end of the story. This stems from
the fact that the command originally was to pick a single
commit and not a range of commits, and the message was
written back then and has not been adjusted.
When picking a range of commits and the command stops with a
conflict in the middle of the range, however, after
resolving the conflict and (optionally) recording the result
with "git commit", the user has to run "git cherry-pick
--continue" to have the rest of the range dealt with,
"--skip" to drop the current commit, or "--abort" to discard
the series.
Suggest use of "git cherry-pick --continue/--skip/--abort"
so that the message also covers the case where a range of
commits are being picked.
Similarly, this optimization can be applied to git revert,
suggest use of "git revert --continue/--skip/--abort" so
that the message also covers the case where a range of
commits are being reverted.
It is worth mentioning that now we use advice() to print
the content of GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP in print_advice(), each
line of output will start with "hint: ".
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Hariom Verma <hariom18599@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a rebase is started with a --strategy option other than "ort" or
"recursive" then "merge -c" does not allow the user to reword the
commit message.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fast-forwarding we do not create a new commit so .git/MERGE_MSG
is not removed and can end up seeding the message of a commit made
after the rebase has finished. Avoid writing .git/MERGE_MSG when we
are fast-forwarding by writing the file after the fast-forward
checks. Note that there are no changes to the fast-forward code, it is
simply moved.
Note that the way this change is implemented means we no longer write
the author script when fast-forwarding either. I believe this is safe
for the reasons below but it is a departure from what we do when
fast-forwarding a non-merge commit. If we reword the merge then 'git
commit --amend' will keep the authorship of the commit we're rewording
as it ignores GIT_AUTHOR_* unless --reset-author is passed. It will
also export the correct GIT_AUTHOR_* variables to any hooks and we
already test the authorship of the reworded commit. If we are not
rewording then we no longer call spilt_ident() which means we are no
longer checking the commit author header looks sane. However this is
what we already do when fast-forwarding non-merge commits in
skip_unnecessary_picks() so I don't think we're breaking any promises
by not checking the author here.
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>
If the user runs git log while rewording a commit it is confusing if
sometimes we're amending the commit that's being reworded and at other
times we're creating a new commit depending on whether we could
fast-forward or not[1]. For this reason the reword command ensures
that there are no uncommitted changes when rewording. The reword
command also allows the user to edit the todo list while the rebase is
paused. As 'merge -c' also rewords commits make it behave like reword
and add a test.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlfvu4be3.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/T/#m133009cb91cf0917bcf667300f061178be56680a
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user skips the final commit by removing all the changes from
the index and worktree with 'git restore' (or read-tree) and then runs
'git rebase --continue' .git/MERGE_MSG is left behind. This will seed
the commit message the next time the user commits which is not what we
want to happen.
Reported-by: Victor Gambier <vgambier@excilys.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few reasons to switch the default:
* Correctness
* Extensibility
* Performance
I'll provide some summaries about each.
=== Correctness ===
The original impetus for a new merge backend was to fix issues that were
difficult to fix within recursive's design. The success with this goal
is perhaps most easily demonstrated by running the following:
$ git grep -2 KNOWN_FAILURE t/ | grep -A 4 GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM
$ git grep test_expect_merge_algorithm.failure.success t/
$ git grep test_expect_merge_algorithm.success.failure t/
In order, these greps show:
* Seven sets of submodule tests (10 total tests) that fail with
recursive but succeed with ort
* 22 other tests that fail with recursive, but succeed with ort
* 0 tests that pass with recursive, but fail with ort
=== Extensibility ===
Being able to perform merges without touching the working tree or index
makes it possible to create new features that were difficult with the
old backend:
* Merging, cherry-picking, rebasing, reverting in bare repositories...
or just on branches that aren't checked out.
* `git diff AUTO_MERGE` -- ability to see what changes the user has
made to resolve conflicts so far (see commit 5291828df8 ("merge-ort:
write $GIT_DIR/AUTO_MERGE whenever we hit a conflict", 2021-03-20)
* A --remerge-diff option for log/show, used to show diffs for merges
that display the difference between what an automatic merge would
have created and what was recorded in the merge. (This option will
often result in an empty diff because many merges are clean, but for
the non-clean ones it will show how conflicts were fixed including
the removal of conflict markers, and also show additional changes
made outside of conflict regions to e.g. fix semantic conflicts.)
* A --remerge-diff-only option for log/show, similar to --remerge-diff
but also showing how cherry-picks or reverts differed from what an
automatic cherry-pick or revert would provide.
The last three have been implemented already (though only one has been
submitted upstream so far; the others were waiting for performance work
to complete), and I still plan to implement the first one.
=== Performance ===
I'll quote from the summary of my final optimization for merge-ort
(while fixing the testcase name from 'no-renames' to 'few-renames'):
Timings
Infinite
merge- merge- Parallelism
recursive recursive of rename merge-ort
v2.30.0 current detection current
---------- --------- ----------- ---------
few-renames: 18.912 s 18.030 s 11.699 s 198.3 ms
mega-renames: 5964.031 s 361.281 s 203.886 s 661.8 ms
just-one-mega: 149.583 s 11.009 s 7.553 s 264.6 ms
Speedup factors
Infinite
merge- merge- Parallelism
recursive recursive of rename
v2.30.0 current detection merge-ort
---------- --------- ----------- ---------
few-renames: 1 1.05 1.6 95
mega-renames: 1 16.5 29 9012
just-one-mega: 1 13.6 20 565
And, for partial clone users:
Factor reduction in number of objects needed
Infinite
merge- merge- Parallelism
recursive recursive of rename
v2.30.0 current detection merge-ort
---------- --------- ----------- ---------
mega-renames: 1 1 1 181.3
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
