Usually "bisect reset" cleans up any refs/bisect/ refs, along with
meta-files like .git/BISECT_LOG. But it only does so after deciding that
a bisection is active, which it does by reading BISECT_START. This is
usually fine, but it's possible to get into a confusing state if the
BISECT_START file is gone, but other cruft is left (this might be due to
a bug, or a system crash, etc).
And since "bisect reset" refuses to do anything in this state, the user
has no easy way to clean up the leftover cruft. While another "bisect
start" would clear the state, in the interim it can be annoying, as
other tools (like our bash prompt code) think we are bisecting, and
for-each-ref output may be polluted with refs/bisect/ entries.
Further adding to the confusion is that running "bisect reset $some_ref"
skips the BISECT_START check. So it never realizes that there's no
bisection active and does the cleanup anyway!
So let's just make sure we always do the cleanup, whether we looked at
BISECT_START or not. If the user doesn't give us a commit to reset to,
we'll still say "We are not bisecting" and skip the call to "git
checkout".
Reported-by: Janik Haag <janik@aq0.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once upon a time, there was this idea that Git would not actually be a
single coherent program, but rather a set of low-level programs that
users cobble together via shell scripts, or develop high-level user
interfaces for Git, or both.
Cogito was such a high-level user interface, incidentally implemented
via shell scripts that cobble together Git calls.
It did turn out relatively quickly that Git would much rather provide a
useful high-level user interface itself.
As of April 19th, 2007, Cogito was therefore discontinued (see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20070419124648.GL4489@pasky.or.cz/).
Nevertheless, for almost 15 years after that announcement, Git carried
special code in `git bisect` to accommodate Cogito.
Since it is beyond doubt that there are no more Cogito users, let's
remove the last remnant of Cogito-accommodating code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d1bbbe45df (bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_run` shell function
in C, 2021-09-13), we ported the `bisect run` subcommand to C, including
the part that prints out an error message when the implicit `git bisect
bad` or `git bisect good` failed.
However, the error message was supposed to print out whether the state
was "good" or "bad", but used a bogus (because non-populated) `args`
variable for it. This was fixed in [1], but as of [2] (when
`bisect--helper` was changed to the present `bisect-state') the error
message still talks about implementation details that should not
concern end users.
Fix that, and add a regression test to ensure that the intended form of
the error message.
1. 80c2e9657f (bisect--helper: report actual bisect_state() argument
on error, 2022-01-18
2. f37d0bdd42 (bisect: fix output regressions in v2.30.0, 2022-11-10)
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In C, the natural order is for `argc` to come before `argv` by virtue of
the `main()` function declaring the parameters in precisely that order.
It is confusing & distracting, then, when readers familiar with the C
language read code where that order is switched around.
Let's just change the order and avoid that type of developer friction.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We _already_ have a function to determine whether a given `enum
bisect_error` value is non-zero but still _actually_ indicates success.
Let's use it instead of duplicating the logic.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the shell script hands off to the `bisect--helper` to do
_anything_ (except to show the help), it is but a tiny step to let the
helper implement the actual `git bisect` command instead.
This retires `git-bisect.sh`, concluding a multi-year journey that many
hands helped with, in particular Pranit Bauna, Tanushree Tumane and
Miriam Rubio.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Jeff King