We want to load unmerged entries from HEAD into the index at stage 2 and
from MERGE_HEAD into stage 3. Similarly, folks expect merge conflicts
to look like
<<<<<<<< HEAD
content from our side
========
content from their side
>>>>>>>> MERGE_HEAD
not
<<<<<<<< MERGE_HEAD
content from their side
========
content from our side
>>>>>>>> HEAD
The correct order usually comes naturally and for free, but with renames
we often have data in the form {rename_branch, other_branch}, and
working relative to the rename first (e.g. for rename/add) is more
convenient elsewhere in the code. Address the slight impedance
mismatch by having some functions re-call themselves with flipped
arguments when the branch order is reversed.
Note that setup_rename_conflict_info() has one asymmetry in it, in
setting dst_entry1->processed=0 but not doing similarly for
dst_entry2->processed. When dealing with rename/rename and similar
conflicts, we do not want the processing to happen twice, so the
desire to only set one of the entries to unprocessed is intentional.
So, while this change modifies which branch's entry will be marked as
unprocessed, that dovetails nicely with putting HEAD first so that we
get the index stage entries and conflict markers in the right order.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each individual file involved in a rename could have also been modified
on both sides of history, meaning it may need to have content merges.
If two such files are renamed into the same location, then on top of the
two natural auto-merging messages we also have to two-way merge the
result, giving us messages that look like
Auto-merging somefile.c (was somecase.c)
Auto-merging somefile.c (was somefolder.c)
Auto-merging somefile.c
However, despite the fact that I was the one who put the "(was %s)"
portions into the messages (and just a few months ago), I was still
initially confused when running into a rename/rename(2to1) case and
wondered if somefile.c had been merged three times. Update this to
instead be:
Auto-merging version of somefile.c from somecase.c
Auto-merging version of somefile.c from someportfolio.c
Auto-merging somefile.c
This is an admittedly long set of messages for a single path, but you
only get all three messages when dealing with the rare case of a
rename/rename(2to1) conflict where both sides of both original files
were also modified, in conflicting ways.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new variant repo_diff_setup() is added that takes 'struct repository *'
and diff_setup() becomes a thin macro around it that is protected by
NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS, similar to NO_THE_INDEX_....
The plan is these macros will always be defined for all library files
and the macros are only accessible in builtin/
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Summary:
merge_file_1() -> merge_mode_and_contents()
merge_content() -> handle_content_merge()
merge_file_1() is a very unhelpful name. Rename it to
merge_mode_and_contents() to reflect what it does.
merge_content() calls merge_mode_and_contents() to do the main part of
its work, but most of this function was about higher level stuff, e.g.
printing out conflict messages, updating skip_worktree bits, checking
for ability to avoid updating the working tree or for D/F conflicts
being in the way, etc. Since there are several handle_*() functions for
similar levels of checking and handling in merge-recursive.c (e.g.
handle_change_delete(), handle_rename_rename_2to1()), let's rename this
function to handle_content_merge().
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function names merge_file_one() and merge_file_1() aren't
particularly intuitive function names, especially since there is no
associated merge_file() function that these are related to. The
previous commit showed that merge_file_one() was prone to be called when
merge_file_1() should be, and since it is just a thin wrapper around
merge_file_1() anyway and only has one caller left, let's just remove
merge_file_one() entirely.
(It also turns out that the one remaining caller of merge_file_one()
has very broken code that needs to be completely rewritten, but that's
the subject of a future patch series; for now, we're just translating
it into a merge_file_1() call.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge_file_one() is a convenience function taking a bunch of oids and
modes, combining each pair into a diff_filespec, and then calling
merge_file_1(). When we already start with diff_filespec's, we can
just call merge_file_1() directly instead of splitting out the oids
and modes for the wrapper to recombine into what we already had.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge_3way() has code to mark different sides of the conflict with info
about where the content comes from. If the names of the files involved
match, it simply uses the branch name. If the names of the files do not
match, it uses branchname:filename. Unfortunately, merge_content()
previously always called it with one.path = a.path = b.path. Granted,
it didn't have other path information available to it for years, but
that was corrected by passing rename_conflict_info in commit
3c217c077a ("merge-recursive: Provide more info in conflict markers
with file renames", 2011-08-11). In that commit, instead of just fixing
the bug with the pathnames, it created fake branch names incorporating
both the branch name and file name.
This "fake branch" workaround was extended further when I pulled that
logic out into a special function in commit dac4741554
("merge-recursive: Create function for merging with branchname:file
markers", 2011-08-11), and a number of other sites outside of
merge_content() have been added which call into that. However, this
Rube-Goldberg-esque setup is not merely duplicate code and unnecessary
work, it also risked having other callsites invoke it in a way that
would result in markers of the form branchname:filename:filename (i.e.
with the filename repeated).
Fix this whole mess by:
- setting one.path, a.path, and b.path appropriately
- calling merge_file_1() directly
- deleting the merge_file_special_markers() workaround wrapper
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the more restrictive oideq() should, in the long run,
give the compiler more opportunities to optimize these
callsites. For now, this conversion should be a complete
noop with respect to the generated code.
The result is also perhaps a little more readable, as it
avoids the "zero is equal" idiom. Since it's so prevalent in
C, I think seasoned programmers tend not to even notice it
anymore, but it can sometimes make for awkward double
negations (e.g., we can drop a few !!oidcmp() instances
here).
This patch was generated almost entirely by the included
coccinelle patch. This mechanical conversion should be
completely safe, because we check explicitly for cases where
oidcmp() is compared to 0, which is what oideq() is doing
under the hood. Note that we don't have to catch "!oidcmp()"
separately; coccinelle's standard isomorphisms make sure the
two are treated equivalently.
I say "almost" because I did hand-edit the coccinelle output
to fix up a few style violations (it mostly keeps the
original formatting, but sometimes unwraps long lines).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the convert API take an index_state instead of assuming the_index
in convert.c. All external call sites are converted blindly to keep
the patch simple and retain current behavior. Individual call sites
may receive further updates to use the right index instead of
the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-recursive takes any files marked as unmerged by unpack_trees,
tries to figure out whether they can be resolved (e.g. using renames
or a file-level merge), and then if they can be it will delete the old
cache entries and writes new ones. This means that any ce_flags for
those cache entries are essentially cleared when merging.
Unfortunately, if a file was marked as skip_worktree and it needs a
file-level merge but the merge results in the same version of the file
that was found in HEAD, we skip updating the worktree (because the
file was unchanged) but clear the skip_worktree bit (because of the
delete-cache-entry-and-write-new-one). This makes git treat the file
as having a local change in the working copy, namely a delete, when it
should appear as unchanged despite not being present. Avoid this
problem by copying the skip_worktree flag in this case.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These methods are now declared in commit-reach.h. Remove them from
commit.h and add new include statements in all files that require these
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/merge.c says that when we are about to perform a merge:
...the index must be in sync with the head commit. The strategies are
responsible to ensure this.
merge-recursive has always relied on unpack_trees() to enforce this
requirement, except in the case of an "Already up to date!" merge.
unpack-trees.c does not actually enforce this requirement, though. It
allows for a pair of exceptions, in cases which it refers to as #14(ALT)
and #2ALT. Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt can be consulted for
the precise meanings of the various case numbers and their meanings for
unpack-trees.c, but we have a high-level description of the intent behind
these two exceptions in a combined and summarized form in
Documentation/git-merge.txt:
...[merge will] abort if there are any changes registered in the index
relative to the `HEAD` commit. (One exception is when the changed index
entries are in the state that would result from the merge already.)
While this high-level description does describe conditions under which it
would be safe to allow the index to diverge from HEAD, it does not match
what is actually implemented. In particular, unpack-trees.c has no
knowledge of renames, and these two exceptions were written assuming that
no renames take place. Once renames get into the mix, it is no longer
safe to allow the index to not match for #2ALT. We could modify
unpack-trees to only allow #14(ALT) as an exception, but that would be
more strict than required for the resolve strategy (since the resolve
strategy doesn't handle renames at all). Therefore, unpack_trees.c seems
like the wrong place to fix this.
Further, if someone fixes the combination of break and rename detection
and modifies merge-recursive to take advantage of the combination, then it
will also no longer be safe to allow the index to not match for #14(ALT)
when the recursive strategy is in use. Therefore, leaving one of the
exceptions in place with the recursive merge strategy feels like we are
just leaving a latent bug in the code for folks in the future to stumble
across.
It may be possible to fix both unpack-trees and merge-recursive in a way
that implements the exception as stated in Documentation/git-merge.txt,
but it would be somewhat complex, possibly also buggy at first, and
ultimately, not all that valuable. Instead, just enforce the requirement
stated in builtin/merge.c; error out if the index does not match the HEAD
commit, just like the 'ours' and 'octopus' strategies do.
Some testcase fixups were in order:
t7611: had many tests designed to show that `git merge --abort` could
not always restore the index and working tree to the state they
were in before the merge started. The tests that were associated
with having changes in the index before the merge started are no
longer applicable, so they have been removed.
t7504: had a few tests that had stray staged changes that were not
actually part of the test under consideration
t6044: We no longer expect stray staged changes to sometimes result
in the merge continuing. Also, fix a case where a merge
didn't abort but should have.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git merge-recursive` does a three-way merge between user-specified trees
base, head, and remote. Since the user is allowed to specify head, we can
not necesarily assume that head == HEAD.
Modify index_has_changes() to take an extra argument specifying the tree
to compare against. If NULL, it will compare to HEAD. We then use this
from merge-recursive to make sure we compare to the user-specified head.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 65170c07d4 ("merge-recursive: avoid incorporating uncommitted
changes in a merge", 2017-12-21), it was noted that there was a special
case when merge-recursive didn't rely on unpack_trees() to enforce the
index == HEAD requirement, and thus that it needed to do that enforcement
itself. Unfortunately, it returned the wrong exit status, signalling that
the merge completed but had conflicts, rather than that it was aborted.
Fix the return code, and while we're at it, change the error message to
match what unpack_trees() would have printed.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modify index_has_changes() to take a struct istate* instead of just
operating on the_index. This is only a partial conversion, though,
because we call do_diff_cache() which implicitly assumes work is to be
done on the_index. Ongoing work is being done elsewhere to do the
remainder of the conversion, and thus is not duplicated here. Instead,
a simple check is put in place until that work is complete.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It has been observed that the time spent loading an index with a large
number of entries is partly dominated by malloc() calls. This change
is in preparation for using memory pools to reduce the number of
malloc() calls made to allocate cahce entries when loading an index.
Add an API to allocate and discard cache entries, abstracting the
details of managing the memory backing the cache entries. This commit
does actually change how memory is managed - this will be done in a
later commit in the series.
This change makes the distinction between cache entries that are
associated with an index and cache entries that are not associated with
an index. A main use of cache entries is with an index, and we can
optimize the memory management around this. We still have other cases
where a cache entry is not persisted with an index, and so we need to
handle the "transient" use case as well.
To keep the congnitive overhead of managing the cache entries, there
will only be a single discard function. This means there must be enough
information kept with the cache entry so that we know how to discard
them.
A summary of the main functions in the API is:
make_cache_entry: create cache entry for use in an index. Uses specified
parameters to populate cache_entry fields.
make_empty_cache_entry: Create an empty cache entry for use in an index.
Returns cache entry with empty fields.
make_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in an
index. Uses specified parameters to populate
cache_entry fields.
make_empty_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in
an index. Returns cache entry with
empty fields.
discard_cache_entry: A single function that knows how to discard a cache
entry regardless of how it was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor refresh_cache_entry() to work on a specific index, instead of
implicitly using the_index. This is in preparation for making the
make_cache_entry function apply to a specific index.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of deref_tag
to be more specific about which repository to act on. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of lookup_commit_reference
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of lookup_tree
to be more specific about which repository to act on. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of parse_object
to be more specific about which repository to act on. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Paths can be longer than PATH_MAX. Avoid a buffer overrun in
check_dir_renamed() by using xstrdup() to make a private copy safely.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Paths can be longer than PATH_MAX. Avoid a buffer overrun in
check_dir_renamed() by using xstrdup() to make a private copy safely.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
handle_change_delete() has a block of code displaying one of four nearly
identical messages. Each contains about half a dozen variable
interpolations, which use nearly identical variables as well. Someone
trying to parse this may be slowed down trying to parse the differences
and why they are here; help them out by adding a comment explaining the
differences.
Further, point out that this code structure isn't collapsed into something
more concise and readable for the programmer, because we want to keep full
messages intact in order to make translators' jobs much easier.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions were added because processing of these conflicts needed
to be deferred until process_entry() in order to get D/F conflicts and
such right. The number of these has grown over time, and now include
some whose name is misleading:
* conflict_rename_normal() is for handling normal file renames; a
typical rename may need content merging, but we expect conflicts
from that to be more the exception than the rule.
* conflict_rename_via_dir() will not be a conflict; it was just an
add that turned into a move due to directory rename detection.
(If there was a file in the way of the move, that would have been
detected and reported earlier.)
* conflict_rename_rename_2to1 and conflict_rename_add (the latter
of which doesn't exist yet but has been submitted before and I
intend to resend) technically might not be conflicts if the
colliding paths happen to match exactly.
Rename this family of functions to handle_rename_*().
Also rename handle_renames() to detect_and_process_renames() both to make
it clearer what it does, and to differentiate it as a pre-processing step
from all the handle_rename_*() functions which are called from
process_entry().
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We had an enum of rename types which included RENAME_DIR; this name felt
misleading since it was not about an entire directory but was a status for
each individual file add that occurred within a renamed directory.
Since this type is for signifying that the files in question were being
renamed due to directory rename detection, rename this enum value to
RENAME_VIA_DIR.
Make a similar change to the conflict_rename_dir() function, and add a
comment to the top of that function explaining its purpose (it may not be
quite as obvious as for the other conflict_rename_*() functions).
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various refactorings throughout the code have left lots of alignment
issues that were driving me crazy; fix them.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output shall behave more similar to ordinary file merges' output to provide
a more consistent user experience.
Signed-off-by: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strings allocated in `setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()` are never
freed. Provide a function `clear_unpack_trees_porcelain()` to do so and
call it where we use `setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()`. The only
non-trivial user is `unpack_trees_start()`, where we should place the
new call in `unpack_trees_finish()`.
We keep the string pointers in an array, mixing pointers to static
memory and memory that we allocate on the heap. We also keep several
copies of the individual pointers. So we need to make sure that we do
not free what we must not free and that we do not double-free. Let a
separate argv_array take ownership of all the strings we create so that
we can easily free them.
Zero the whole array of string pointers to make sure that we do not
leave any dangling pointers.
Note that we only take responsibility for the memory allocated in
`setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()` and not any other members of the
`struct unpack_trees_options`.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's done so that commit->util can be removed. See more explanation in
the commit that removes commit->util.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `git_merge_trees()` to `unpack_trees_start()` and extract the
call to `discard_index()` into a new function `unpack_trees_finish()`.
As a result, these are called early resp. late in `merge_trees()`,
making the resource handling clearer. A later commit will expand on
that, teaching `..._finish()` to free more memory. (So rather than
moving the FIXME-comment, just drop it, since it will be addressed soon
enough.)
Also call `..._finish()` when `merge_trees()` returns early.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inform the user about an automatically fast-forwarded submodule. The
silent merge behavior was introduced by commit 68d03e4a6e ("Implement
automatic fast-forward merge for submodules", 2010-07-07)).
Signed-off-by: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have to convert all of the alloc functions at once, because alloc_report
uses a funky macro for reporting. It is better for the sake of mechanical
conversion to convert multiple functions at once rather than changing the
structure of the reporting function.
We record all memory allocation in alloc.c, and free them in
clear_alloc_state, which is called for all repositories except
the_repository.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The submodule merge code now uses the output() function that is used by
all the rest of the merge-recursive-code. This allows for respecting
internationalisation as well as the verbosity setting.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we want to improve submodule merging by using the output()
function in merge-recursive.c for submodule merges to deliver a consistent
UI to users.
To do so we could either make the output() function globally available
so we can use it in submodule.c#merge_submodule(), or we could integrate
the submodule merging into the merging code. Choose the later as we
generally want to move submodules closer into the core.
Therefore we move any function related to merging submodules
(merge_submodule(), find_first_merges() and print_commit) to
merge-recursive.c. We'll keep add_submodule_odb() in submodule.c as it
is used by other submodule functions. While at it, add a TODO note that
we do not really like the function add_submodule_odb().
This commit is best viewed with --color-moved.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't change the
implementation to handle repositories other than the_repository yet.
Use a macro to catch callers passing a repository other than
the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Set aggressive flag in git_merge_trees() when rename detection is turned off.
This allows read_tree() to auto resolve more cases that would have otherwise
been handled by the rename detection.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the ability to control rename detection for merge via a config setting.
This setting behaves the same and defaults to the value of diff.renames but only
applies to merge.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The can-working-tree-updates-be-skipped check has had a long and blemished
history. The update can be skipped iff:
a) The merge is clean
b) The merge matches what was in HEAD (content, mode, pathname)
c) The target path is usable (i.e. not involved in D/F conflict)
Traditionally, we split b into parts:
b1) The merged result matches the content and mode found in HEAD
b2) The merged target path existed in HEAD
Steps a & b1 are easy to check; we have always gotten those right. While
it is easy to overlook step c, this was fixed seven years ago with commit
4ab9a157d0 ("merge_content(): Check whether D/F conflicts are still
present", 2010-09-20). merge-recursive didn't have a readily available
way to directly check step b2, so various approximations were used:
* In commit b2c8c0a762 ("merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip
an update, actually skip it", 2011-02-28), it was noted that although
the code claimed it was skipping the update, it did not actually skip
the update. The code was made to skip it, but used lstat(path, ...)
as an approximation to path-was-tracked-in-index-before-merge.
* In commit 5b448b8530 ("merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip
an update, actually skip it", 2011-08-11), the problem with using
lstat was noted. It was changed to the approximation
path2 && strcmp(path, path2)
which is also wrong. !path2 || strcmp(path, path2) would have been
better, but would have fallen short with directory renames.
* In c5b761fb27 ("merge-recursive: ensure we write updates for
directory-renamed file", 2018-02-14), the problem with the previous
approximation was noted and changed to
was_tracked(path)
That looks close to what we were trying to answer, but was_tracked()
as implemented at the time should have been named is_tracked(); it
returned something different than what we were looking for.
* To make matters more complex, fixing was_tracked() isn't sufficient
because the splitting of b into b1 and b2 is wrong. Consider the
following merge with a rename/add conflict:
side A: modify foo, add unrelated bar
side B: rename foo->bar (but don't modify the mode or contents)
In this case, the three-way merge of original foo, A's foo, and B's
bar will result in a desired pathname of bar with the same
mode/contents that A had for foo. Thus, A had the right mode and
contents for the file, and it had the right pathname present (namely,
bar), but the bar that was present was unrelated to the contents, so
the working tree update was not skippable.
Fix this by introducing a new function:
was_tracked_and_matches(o, path, &mfi.oid, mfi.mode)
and use it to directly check for condition b.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, merge_content() would print "Auto-merging" whenever the final
content and mode aren't already available from HEAD. There are a few
problems with this:
1) There are other code paths doing merges that should probably have the
same message printed, in particular rename/rename(2to1) which cannot
call into the normal rename logic.
2) If both sides of the merge have modifications, then a content merge
is needed. It may turn out that the end result matches one of the
sides (because the other only had a subset of the same changes), but
the merge was still needed. Currently, the message will not print in
that case, though it seems like it should.
Move the printing of this message to merge_file_1() in order to address
both issues.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
was_dirty() uses was_tracked(), which has been updated to use the original
index rather than the current one. However, was_dirty() also had a
separate call to cache_file_exists(), causing it to still implicitly use
the current index. Update that to instead use index_file_exists().
Also, was_dirty() had a hack where it would mark any file as non-dirty if
we simply didn't know its modification time. This was due to using the
current index rather than the original index, because D/F conflicts and
such would cause unpack_trees() to not copy the modification times from
the original index to the current one. Now that we are using the original
index, we can dispense with this hack.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit aacb82de3f ("merge-recursive: Split was_tracked() out of
would_lose_untracked()", 2011-08-11), was_tracked() was split out of
would_lose_untracked() with the intent to provide a function that could
answer whether a path was tracked in the index before the merge. Sadly,
it instead returned whether the path was in the working tree due to having
been tracked in the index before the merge OR having been written there by
unpack_trees(). The distinction is important when renames are involved,
e.g. for a merge where:
HEAD: modifies path b
other: renames b->c
In this case, c was not tracked in the index before the merge, but would
have been added to the index at stage 0 and written to the working tree by
unpack_trees(). would_lose_untracked() is more interested in the
in-working-copy-for-either-reason behavior, while all other uses of
was_tracked() want just was-it-tracked-in-index-before-merge behavior.
Unsplit would_lose_untracked() and write a new was_tracked() function
which answers whether a path was tracked in the index before the merge
started.
This will also affect was_dirty(), helping it to return better results
since it can base answers off the original index rather than an index that
possibly only copied over some of the stat information. However,
was_dirty() will need an additional change that will be made in a
subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren