It seems simpler and safer to use the BISECT_START file everywhere
to decide if we are bisecting or not, instead of using it in some
places and BISECT_NAMES in other places.
In commit 6459c7c678 (Nov 18 2007,
Bisect: use "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES" to check if we are bisecting.),
we decided to use BISECT_NAMES but code changed a lot and we now
have to check BISECT_START first in the "bisect_start" function
anyway.
This patch also makes things a little bit safer by creating
the BISECT_START file first and deleting it last, and also by
adding checks in "bisect_clean_state".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git bisect" was first written, it was not possible to
checkout a detached HEAD. The detached feature appeared latter.
That's why before this patch the "git bisect" process used a
"bisect" branch to checkout new revisions to be tested (and also
a "new-bisect" one to check if the checkouts could work).
This patch makes "git bisect" checkout revisions to be tested on
a detached HEAD. This simplifies the code a bit.
The tests to check that "git bisect" does not start if a
"bisect" or a "new-bisect" branch exists are removed as they
are not relevant any more.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, when using "git bisect start" with mistaken revs
or when the checkout of the branch we want to test failed, we exited
after having written files like ".git/BISECT_START",
".git/BISECT_NAMES" and after having written "refs/bisect/bad" and
"refs/bisect/good-*" refs.
With this patch we trap all errors that can happen when writing the
new state and when we are in "bisect_next". So that we can try to
clean up everything in case of problems, using "bisect_clean_state".
This patch also contains a "bisect_write" cleanup to make it exit
on error and return 0 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, when using for example:
$ git bisect start <stuff1> <stuff2>
with <stuff1> or <stuff2> that cannot be parsed as a revision, we
could leave a ".git/BISECT_START" file, from a previous
"git bisect start", alone.
This patch makes sure that it does not happen by removing the
"BISECT_START" file in "bisect_clean_state" and then always writing
it again at the end of "bisect_start".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch no error was printed when "git rev-list --bisect-vars"
failed. This can happen when bad and good revs are mistaken.
This patch prints an error message on stderr that describe the likely
failure cause.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a branch named "bisect" or "new-bisect" already was created in the
repo by other means than git bisect, doing a git bisect used to override
the branch without a warning. Now if the branch "bisect" or
"new-bisect" already exists, and it was not created by git bisect itself,
git bisect start fails with an appropriate error message. Additionally,
if checking out a new bisect state fails due to a merge problem, git
bisect cleans up the temporary branch "new-bisect".
The accidental override has been noticed by Andres Salomon, reported
through
http://bugs.debian.org/478647
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, when "git bisect start", "git bisect good" or
"git bisect skip" were called with many revisions, they could fail
after having already marked some revisions as "good", "bad" or
"skip".
This could be especilally bad for "git bisect start" because as
the file ".git/BISECT_NAMES" would not have been written, there
would have been no attempt to clear the marked revisions on a
"git bisect reset". That's because if there is no
".git/BISECT_NAMES" file, nothing is done to clean things up, as
the bisect session is not supposed to have started.
While at it, let's also create the ".git/BISECT_START" file, only
after ".git/BISECT_NAMES" as been created.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To get the current HEAD when we start bisecting using for example
"git bisect start", we first try "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to get a
nice name, and if it fails, we fall back to "git rev-parse
--verify HEAD".
The problem is that when "git symbolic-ref HEAD" fails, it
displays "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref", so it looks like "git
bisect start" failed and does not accept detached HEAD, even if
in fact it worked fine.
This patch adds "-q" option to the "git symbolic-ref" call to
get rid of the misleading error message.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous one overwrote the variable used to report the bad input
when the input is actually bad, and we did not give a useful enough
information. This corrects it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that "git bisect good" and "git bisect skip" have never
properly checked arguments that have been passed to them. As soon
as one of them can be parsed as a SHA1, no error or warning would
be given.
This is because 'git rev-parse --revs-only --no-flags "$@"' always
"exit 0" and outputs all the SHA1 it can found from parsing "$@".
This patch fix this by using, for each "bisect good" argument, the
same logic as for the "bisect bad" argument.
While at it, this patch teaches "bisect bad" to give a meaningfull
error message when it is passed more than one argument.
Note that if "git bisect good" or "git bisect skip" is given some
proper revs and then something that is not a proper rev, then the
first proper revs will still have been marked as "good" or "skip".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users are not often aware of the fact that "git bisect -h" can give
them a long usage description, as "git bisect" seems to accept only
dashless subcommands like "start", "good", ...
That's why this patch adds a "git bisect help" subcommand that just
calls "git bisect -h". This new subcommand is also fully documented
in the short usage string (that "git bisect" gives), in the long
usage string and in the man page (that "git help bisect" gives).
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Specifying character ranges in tr differs between System V
and POSIX. In System V, brackets are required (e.g.,
'[A-Z]'), whereas in POSIX they are not.
We can mostly get around this by just using the bracket form
for both sets, as in:
tr '[A-Z] '[a-z]'
in which case POSIX interpets this as "'[' becomes '['",
which is OK.
However, this doesn't work with multiple sequences, like:
# rot13
tr '[A-Z][a-z]' '[N-Z][A-M][n-z][a-m]'
where the POSIX version does not behave the same as the
System V version. In this case, we must simply enumerate the
sequence.
This patch fixes problematic uses of tr in git scripts and
test scripts in one of three ways:
- if a single sequence, make sure it uses brackets
- if multiple sequences, enumerate
- if extra brackets (e.g., tr '[A]' 'a'), eliminate
brackets
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user
anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix
for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a
potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to
be on for the bisect she is starting).
The simplest way to eliminate the confusion is to just make
"git bisect start" do the cleanup itself. There's no significant
loss of safety here since we already have a general safety in
the form of the reflog.
Note: We preserve the warning for any cogito users. We do this
by switching from .git/head-name to .git/BISECT_START for the
extra state, (which is a more descriptive name anyway).
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user
anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix
for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a
potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to
be on for the bisect she is starting).
The simplest way to eliminate the confusion is to just make
"git bisect start" do the cleanup itself. There's no significant
loss of safety here since we already have a general safety in
the form of the reflog.
Note: We preserve the warning for any cogito users. We do this
by switching from .git/head-name to .git/BISECT_START for the
extra state, (which is a more descriptive name anyway).
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When deciding if gitk or git-log should be used to visualize the current
state, the environment variable DISPLAY was checked. Now, we check
MSYSTEM (for MinGW32/MSys) and SECURITYSESSIONID (for MacOSX) in addition.
Note that there is currently no way to ssh into MinGW32, and that
SECURITYSESSIONID is not set automatically on MacOSX when ssh'ing into it.
So this patch should be safe.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to a typo, the commit subject was shell expanded in the bisect log.
That is, if you had some shell pattern in the commit subject, bisect
would happily put all matching file names into the log.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of insisting on a symbolic ref, bisect now accepts detached
HEADs, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches "git bisect visualize" to be more useful in non-windowed
environments.
(1) When no option is given, and $DISPLAY is set, it continues to
spawn gitk as before;
(2) When no option is given, and $DISPLAY is unset, "git log" is run
to show the range of commits between the bad one and the good ones;
(3) If only "-flag" options are given, "git log <options>" is run.
E.g. "git bisect visualize --stat"
(4) Otherwise, all of the given options are taken as the initial part
of the command line and the commit range expression is given to
that command. E.g. "git bisect visualize tig" will run "tig"
history viewer to show between the bad one and the good ones.
As "visualize" is a bit too long to type, we also give it a shorter
synonym "view".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, using "git bisect reset" when not bisecting
did a "git checkout master" for no good reason.
This also happened using "git bisect replay" when not bisecting
because "bisect_replay" starts by calling "bisect_reset".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously we tested if the "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect" directory
existed, to check if we were bisecting.
Now with packed refs, it is simpler to check if the file
"$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES" exists, as it is already created when
starting bisection and removed when reseting bisection.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In bisect_visualize, "cd $GIT_DIR/refs && echo bisect/good-*" was
still used instead of "git for-each-ref". This patch fix it.
We now pass "refs/bisect/bad" and "--not refs/bisect/good-<rev>"
instead of "bisect/bad" and "--not bisect/good-<rev>" to gitk,
but it seems to work.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When switching to a new rev, we first made "new-bisect" branch to
point at the chosen commit, attempt to switch to it, and then
finally renamed the new-bisect branch to bisect by hand when
successful. This is so that we can catch checkout failure (your
local modification may interfere with switching to the chosen
version) without losing information on which commit the next
attempt should be made.
Rewrite it using a more modern form but without breaking the
safety.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This removes the last instance of making a ref by hand with
"echo SHA1 >.git/refs/$refname" from the script and replaces it
with update-ref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not need to pipe "echo" to "sed" only to strip refs/heads/
from the beginning. We are assuming not-so-ancient shells these
days.
Also there is no need to avoid assuming \012 is the LF; we do
not run on EBCDIC, sorry. Other parts of the script already
uses tr to convert separator to LF that way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If refs were ever packed in the middle of bisection, the bisect
refs were not removed from the "packed-refs" file.
This patch fixes this problem by using "git update-ref -d $ref $hash"
in "bisect_clean_state".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
\n is not portable in a s/// replacement string, only
in the regex part. backslash-newline helps.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--text follows this line--
These commands currently lack OPTIONS_SPEC; allow people to
easily list with "git grep 'OPTIONS_SPEC=$'" what they can help
improving.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is incompatible with previous versions because an exit code
of 125 used to mark current commit as "bad". But hopefully this exit
code is not much used by test scripts or other programs. (126 and 127
are used by POSIX compliant shells to mean "found but not
executable" and "command not found", respectively.)
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also use "die" instead of "echo >&2 something ; exit 1".
And simplify "bisect_replay".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there are some "skip"ped revisions, we add the '--bisect-all'
option to "git rev-list --bisect-vars". Then we filter out the
"skip"ped revisions from the result of the rev-list command, and we
modify the "bisect_rev" var accordingly.
We don't always use "--bisect-all" because it is slower
than "--bisect-vars" or "--bisect".
When we cannot find for sure the first bad commit because of
"skip"ped commits, we print the hash of each possible first bad
commit and then we exit with code 2.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This allows you to say:
git bisect start
git bisect bad $bad
git bisect next
to start bisection without knowing a good commit. This would
have you try a commit that is half-way since the beginning of
the history, which is rather wasteful if you already know a good
commit, but if you don't (or your history is short enough that
you do not care), there is no reason not to allow this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This slightly modernizes the bisect script to use show-ref/for-each-ref
instead of looking into $GIT_DIR/refs files directly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
One bad commit is fundamentally needed for bisect to run,
and if we beforehand know more good commits, we can narrow
the bisect space down without doing the whole tree checkout
every time we give good commits.
This patch implements:
git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
as a short-hand for this command sequence:
git bisect start
git bisect bad $bad
git bisect good $good1 $good2...
On the other hand, there may be some confusion between revs
(<bad> and <good>...) and <pathspec>... if -- is not used
and if an invalid rev or a pathspec that looks like a rev is
given.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
So we can remove the specific message in "bisect_run".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We may be able to "run" with only one good revision given
and then verify that the result of the first run is bad.
And perhaps also the other way around.
But for now let's check that we have at least one bad and
one good revision before we start to run.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The branch you are on while bisecting is always "bisect", and
checking for "refs/heads/bisect*" is wrong. Only check if it is
exactly "refs/heads/bisect".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This idea was suggested by Bill Lear
(Message-ID: <17920.38942.364466.642979@lisa.zopyra.com>)
and I think it is a very good one.
This patch adds a new test file for "git bisect run", but there
is currently only one basic test.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Without this the rev could be (e.g.) a tag and then the condition to end the
bisect might fail and you have to check the already known to be bad revision
once more.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Converts one use of git-checkout in git-bisect not to say "switching
to branch". It looks like all the other cases it is friendlier to
give notice to the end user.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I had local modifications in the tree and doing bisect reset required me to
manually edit .git/HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Christian Couder