git/contrib
Philippe Blain 0d330673d4 subtree: fix squash merging after annotated tag was squashed merged
When 'git subtree merge --squash $ref' is invoked, either directly or
through 'git subtree pull --squash $repo $ref', the code looks for the
latest squash merge of the subtree in order to create the new merge
commit as a child of the previous squash merge.

This search is done in function 'process_subtree_split_trailer', invoked
by 'find_latest_squash', which looks for the most recent commit with a
'git-subtree-split' trailer; that trailer's value is the object name in
the subtree repository of the ref that was last squash-merged. The
function verifies that this object is present locally with 'git
rev-parse', and aborts if it's not.

The hash referenced by the 'git-subtree-split' trailer is guaranteed to
correspond to a commit since it is the result of running 'git rev-parse
-q --verify "$1^{commit}"' on the first argument of 'cmd_merge' (this
corresponds to 'rev' in 'cmd_merge' which is passed through to
'new_squash_commit' and 'squash_msg').

But this is only the case since e4f8baa88a (subtree: parse revs in
individual cmd_ functions, 2021-04-27), which went into Git 2.32. Before
that commit, 'cmd_merge' verified the revision it was given using 'git
rev-parse --revs-only "$@"'. Such an invocation, when fed the name of an
annotated tag, would return the hash of the tag, not of the commit
referenced by the tag.

This leads to a failure in 'find_latest_squash' when squash-merging if
the most recent squash-merge merged an annotated tag of the subtree
repository, using a pre-2.32 version of 'git subtree', unless that
previous annotated tag is present locally (which is not usually the
case).

We can fix this by fetching the object directly by its hash in
'process_subtree_split_trailer' when 'git rev-parse' fails, but in order
to do so we need to know the name or URL of the subtree repository.
This is not possible in general for 'git subtree merge', but is easy
when it is invoked through 'git subtree pull' since in that case the
subtree repository is passed by the user at the command line.

Allow the 'git subtree pull' scenario to work out-of-the-box by adding
an optional 'repository' argument to functions 'cmd_merge',
'find_latest_squash' and 'process_subtree_split_trailer', and invoke
'cmd_merge' with that 'repository' argument in 'cmd_pull'.

If 'repository' is absent in 'process_subtree_split_trailer', instruct
the user to try fetching the missing object directly.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-21 13:51:06 -07:00
..
buildsystems Merge branch 'ed/fsmonitor-on-networked-macos' 2022-10-17 14:56:31 -07:00
coccinelle Merge branch 'rs/cocci-array-copy' 2022-07-19 16:40:18 -07:00
completion git-prompt: show presence of unresolved conflicts at command prompt 2022-08-19 10:58:40 -07:00
contacts git-contacts: also recognise "Reported-by:" 2017-07-27 09:42:55 -07:00
credential osxkeychain: clarify that we ignore unknown lines 2022-09-22 14:21:04 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: correctly match blank lines for flush 2020-09-21 22:33:28 -07:00
emacs git{,-blame}.el: remove old bitrotting Emacs code 2018-04-16 17:25:49 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' into ds/lazy-load-trees 2018-04-11 10:46:32 +09:00
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump git-jump: pass "merge" arguments to ls-files 2021-11-09 11:15:21 -08:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git hg-to-git: make it compatible with both python3 and python2 2019-09-18 12:03:05 -07:00
hooks multimail: stop shipping a copy 2021-06-11 13:35:19 +09:00
long-running-filter docs: warn about possible '=' in clean/smudge filter process values 2016-12-06 11:29:52 -08:00
mw-to-git t6000-t9999: detect and signal failure within loop 2021-12-13 10:29:48 -08:00
persistent-https docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf 2017-06-01 10:07:10 +09:00
remote-helpers contrib: git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholders don't need Python 2017-03-03 11:09:34 -08:00
stats
subtree subtree: fix squash merging after annotated tag was squashed merged 2022-10-21 13:51:06 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution 2015-12-27 15:33:13 -08:00
update-unicode unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name 2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
vscode vscode: improve tab size and wrapping 2022-06-27 15:37:44 -07:00
workdir git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only 2017-05-10 13:32:50 +09:00
coverage-diff.sh contrib: add coverage-diff script 2018-10-10 10:11:35 +09:00
git-resurrect.sh contrib/git-resurrect.sh: use hash-agnostic OID pattern 2020-10-08 11:48:56 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: avoid useless gpg sign in training 2022-07-19 11:24:08 -07:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc