When we merge into an unborn branch, there are basically two
steps:
1. Write the sha1 of the new commit into the ref pointed
to by HEAD.
2. Update the index with the new content, and check it out
to the working tree.
We currently do them in this order. However, (2) is the step
that is much more likely to fail, since it can be blocked by
things like untracked working tree files. When it does, the
merge fails and we are left with an empty index but an
updated HEAD.
This patch switches the order, so that a failure in updating
the index leaves us unchanged. Of course, a failure in
updating the ref now leaves us with an updated index and
mis-matched HEAD. That is arguably not much better, but it
is probably less likely to actually happen.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mg/placeholders-are-lowercase:
Make <identifier> lowercase in Documentation
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:
$ git commit -c <original commit id>
to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:
$ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.
Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The user can enable or disable it explicitly with the new
--progress, but it defaults to checking isatty(2).
This works only with merge-recursive and subtree. In theory
we could pass a progress flag to other strategies, but none
of them support progress at this point, so let's wait until
they grow such a feature before worrying about propagating
it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a merge is stopped due to conflicts or --no-commit, the
subsequent commit calls the prepare-commit-msg hook. However,
it is not called after a clean merge. Fix this inconsistency
by invoking the hook after clean merges as well.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
pull: do not display fetch usage on --help-all
git-tag.txt: list all modes in the description
commit,status: describe -u likewise
add: describe --patch like checkout, reset
commit,merge,tag: describe -m likewise
clone,init: describe --template using the same wording
commit,status: describe --porcelain just like push
commit,tag: use same wording for -F
configure: use AC_LANG_PROGRAM consistently
string_list_append: always set util pointer to NULL
correct type of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
This also removes the superfluous "specify" and rewords the misleading
"if any" which sounds as if omitting "-m" would omit the merge commit
message. (It means "if a merge commit is created at all".)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, this would allow cherry-picking or reverting patches from
a piece of history with a different end-of-line style, like so:
$ git revert -Xrenormalize old-problematic-commit
Currently that is possible with manual use of merge-recursive but the
cherry-pick/revert porcelain does not expose the functionality.
While at it, document the existing support for --strategy.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup:
update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
ls-files -h: show usage even with corrupt index
gc -h: show usage even with broken configuration
commit/status -h: show usage even with broken configuration
checkout-index -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
Conflicts:
builtin/merge.c
* jh/notes-merge: (23 commits)
Provide 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge'
cmd_merge(): Parse options before checking MERGE_HEAD
Provide 'git notes get-ref' to easily retrieve current notes ref
git notes merge: Add testcases for merging notes trees at different fanouts
git notes merge: Add another auto-resolving strategy: "cat_sort_uniq"
git notes merge: --commit should fail if underlying notes ref has moved
git notes merge: List conflicting notes in notes merge commit message
git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2
git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 1/2
Documentation: Preliminary docs on 'git notes merge'
git notes merge: Add automatic conflict resolvers (ours, theirs, union)
git notes merge: Handle real, non-conflicting notes merges
builtin/notes.c: Refactor creation of notes commits.
git notes merge: Initial implementation handling trivial merges only
builtin/notes.c: Split notes ref DWIMmery into a separate function
notes.c: Use two newlines (instead of one) when concatenating notes
(trivial) t3303: Indent with tabs instead of spaces for consistency
notes.h/c: Propagate combine_notes_fn return value to add_note() and beyond
notes.h/c: Allow combine_notes functions to remove notes
notes.c: Reorder functions in preparation for next commit
...
Conflicts:
builtin.h
Teach 'git merge' the --abort option, which verifies the existence of
MERGE_HEAD and then invokes 'git reset --merge' to abort the current
in-progress merge and attempt to reconstruct the pre-merge state.
The reason for adding this option is to provide a user interface for
aborting an in-progress merge that is consistent with the interface
for aborting a rebase ('git rebase --abort'), aborting the application
of a patch series ('git am --abort'), and aborting an in-progress notes
merge ('git notes merge --abort').
The patch includes documentation and testcases that explain and verify
the various scenarios in which 'git merge --abort' can run. The
testcases also document the cases in which 'git merge --abort' is
unable to correctly restore the pre-merge state (look for the '###'
comments towards the bottom of t/t7609-merge-abort.sh).
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Jonathan Nieder: Move test documentation into test_description
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reorder the initial part of builtin/merge.c:cmd_merge() so that command-line
options are parsed _before_ we load the index and check for MERGE_HEAD
(and exits if it exists). This does not change the behaviour of 'git merge',
but is needed in preparation for the implementation of 'git merge --abort'
(which requires MERGE_HEAD to be present).
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Junio C Hamano: fixup minor style issues
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In case HEAD does not point to a valid commit yet, merge is
implemented as a hard reset. This will cause untracked files to be
overwritten.
Instead, assume the empty tree for HEAD and do a regular merge. An
untracked file will cause the merge to abort and do nothing. If no
conflicting files are present, the merge will have the same effect
as a hard reset.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(Just like we did for documentation already)
In the process, we change "non-remote branch" to "branch outside the
refs/remotes/ hierarchy" to avoid the ugly "non-remote-tracking branch".
The new formulation actually corresponds to how the code detects this
case (i.e. prefixcmp(refname, "refs/remotes")).
Also, we use 'remote-tracking branch' in generated merge messages (by
merge an fmt-merge-msg).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Part of a campaign to make sure "git <command> -h" works correctly
when run from distractingly bad repositories.
[jn: with rewritten log message and tests]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rr/fmt-merge-msg:
t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise '--log' to configure shortlog length
t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise 'merge.log' to configure shortlog length
merge: Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option
merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries
fmt_merge_msg: Change fmt_merge_msg API to accept shortlog_len
Conflicts:
builtin/merge.c
Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option to set the number of
shortlog entries to display in the merge commit. Note that it defaults
to false, and that true means a default value of 20. Also update
corresponding documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the command-line '--log' option from a boolean option to an
integer option, and parse the optional integer provided on the
command-line into the 'shortlog_len' variable. Also update the
documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Give "shortlog_len" parameter to the fmt_merge_msg(), remove its
"merge_summary" parameter, and remove fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() function.
In the updated API, shortlog_len == 0 means no shortlog is given.
The parameter "merge_title" controls if the title of the merge commit is
autogenerated (it reads something like "Merge branch ..."), and typically
it is set to true when the caller does not give its own message.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dg/local-mod-error-messages:
t7609-merge-co-error-msgs: test non-fast forward case too.
Move "show_all_errors = 1" to setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain: take the whole options struct as parameter
Move set_porcelain_error_msgs to unpack-trees.c and rename it
Conflicts:
merge-recursive.c
* jn/merge-custom-no-trivial:
t7606: Avoid using head as a file name
merge: let custom strategies intervene in trivial merges
t7606 (merge-theirs): modernize style
* jn/merge-renormalize:
merge-recursive --renormalize
rerere: never renormalize
rerere: migrate to parse-options API
t4200 (rerere): modernize style
ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization
Conflicts:
builtin/rerere.c
t/t4200-rerere.sh
Not only this makes the code clearer since setting up the porcelain error
message is meant to work with show_all_errors, but this fixes a call to
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain() in git_merge_trees() which did not set
show_all_errors.
add_rejected_path() used to double-check whether it was running in
plumbing mode. This check was ineffective since it was setting
show_all_errors too late for traverse_trees() to see it, and is made
useless by this patch. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a preparation patch to let setup_unpack_trees_porcelain set
show_all_errors itself.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function is currently dealing only with error messages, but the
intent of calling it is really to notify the unpack-tree mechanics that
it is running in porcelain mode.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two very similar blocks of code that recognize options for
the "recursive" merge strategy. Unify them.
No functional change intended.
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If no branch 'foo' exists but a tag 'foo' does, then
git merge foo^ results in
Merge branch 'foo' (early part)
as a commit message, because the relevant code path checks that
refs/heads/foo is a valid refname for writing rather than for
reading.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As v1.6.1-rc1~294^2 (2008-08-23) explains, custom merge strategies
do not even kick in when the merge is truly trivial. But they
should, since otherwise a custom “--strategy=theirs” is not useful.
Perhaps custom strategies should not allow fast-forward either. This
patch does not make that change, since it is less important (because
it is always possible to explicitly use --no-ff).
Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an error is encountered, it calls add_rejected_file() which either
- directly displays the error message and stops if in plumbing mode
(i.e. if show_all_errors is not initialized at 1)
- or stores it so that it will be displayed at the end with display_error_msgs(),
Storing the files by error type permits to have a list of files for
which there is the same error instead of having a serie of almost
identical errors.
As each bind_overlap error combines a file and an old file, a list cannot be
done, therefore, theses errors are not stored but directly displayed.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A porcelain message was first added in checkout.c in the commit
8ccba008 (Junio C Hamano, Sat May 17 21:03:49 2008, unpack-trees:
allow Porcelain to give different error messages) to give better feedback
in the case of merge errors.
This patch adapts the porcelain messages for the case of checkout
instead. This way, when having a checkout error, "merge" no longer
appears in the error message.
While we're there, we add an advice in the case of
would_lose_untracked_file.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of error messages was introduced as a structure, but an array
indexed over an enum is more flexible, since it allows one to store a
type of error message (index in the array) in a variable.
This change needs to rename would_lose_untracked ->
would_lose_untracked_file to avoid a clash with the function
would_lose_untracked in merge-recursive.c.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows the caller to add its own error message to that returned
by split_cmdline. Thus error output following a failed split_cmdline
can be of the form
fatal: Bad alias.test string: cmdline ends with \
rather than
error: cmdline ends with \
fatal: Bad alias.test string
Signed-off-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git merge-recursive" a --renormalize option to enable the
merge.renormalize configuration. The --no-renormalize option can
be used to override it in the negative.
So in the future, you might be able to, e.g.:
git checkout -m -Xrenormalize otherbranch
or
git revert -Xrenormalize otherpatch
or
git pull --rebase -Xrenormalize
The bad part: merge.renormalize is still not honored for most
commands. And it reveals lots of places that -X has not been plumbed
in (so we get "git merge -Xrenormalize" but not much else).
NEEDSWORK: tests
Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings. Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.
Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):
o---C
/ \
A---B---D
B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
LF-only
C: Modify some of the text files
D: Try to merge C
You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.
Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge. This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.
This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users. The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tc/merge-m-log:
merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
merge: rename variable
merge: update comment
t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation
Conflicts:
builtin.h
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.
Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().
Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is more accurate to call it 'merge_names' instead of 'msg', as it
does not contain the final message.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ce9d823 (merge: do not add standard message when message is given with
-m option) changed the behaviour of the code that the comment addressed,
but the comment was not similarly updated.
Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cc/revert-strategy:
revert: add "--strategy" option to choose merge strategy
merge: make function try_merge_command non static
merge: refactor code that calls "git merge-STRATEGY"
revert: refactor merge recursive code into its own function
revert: use strbuf to refactor the code that writes the merge message
Conflicts:
builtin/revert.c
In the try_merge_strategy() function, when the strategy is "recursive"
or "subtree", the merge_recursive() function is called.
Otherwise we launch a "git merge-STRATEGY" process.
To make it possible to reuse code that launches a "git merge-STRATEGY"
process, this patch refactors this code into a new try_merge_command()
function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cc/cherry-pick-ff:
revert: fix tiny memory leak in cherry-pick --ff
rebase -i: use new --ff cherry-pick option
Documentation: describe new cherry-pick --ff option
cherry-pick: add tests for new --ff option
revert: add --ff option to allow fast forward when cherry-picking
builtin/merge: make checkout_fast_forward() non static
parse-options: add parse_options_concat() to concat options
Jeff King
Junio C Hamano
Jay Soffian
Michael J Gruber
Jonathan Nieder
Johan Herland
Clemens Buchacher
Matthieu Moy
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Ramkumar Ramachandra
Diane Gasselin
Greg Brockman
Eyvind Bernhardsen
Tay Ray Chuan
Christian Couder