‘git bisect reset’ accepts an optional argument specifying a branch to
check out after cleaning up the bisection state. This lets you
specify an arbitrary commit.
In particular, this provides a way to clean the bisection state
without moving HEAD: ‘git bisect reset HEAD’. This may be useful if
you are not interested in the state before you began a bisect,
especially if checking out the old commit would be expensive and
invalidate most of your compiled tree.
Clarify the ‘git bisect reset’ documentation to explain this optional
argument, which was previously mentioned only in the usage message.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch replace the "--next-exit" option of "git bisect--helper"
with a "--next-all" option that does merge base checking using
the "check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad" function implemented in
"bisect.c" in a former patch.
The new "--next-all" option is then used in "git-bisect.sh" instead
of the "--next-exit" option, and all the shell functions in
"git-bisect.sh" that are now unused are removed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the "sq" function was the only place using Perl in "git-bisect.sh",
this removes the Perl dependency in this script.
While at it, we also remove the sed instruction in the Makefile that
substituted @@PERL@@ with the Perl path in shell scripts, as this is
not needed anymore. (It is now only needed in "git-instaweb.sh" but
this command is dealt with separately in the Makefile.)
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
instead of "git bisect--helper --next-vars".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cc/bisect-filter: (21 commits)
rev-list: add "int bisect_show_flags" in "struct rev_list_info"
rev-list: remove last static vars used in "show_commit"
list-objects: add "void *data" parameter to show functions
bisect--helper: string output variables together with "&&"
rev-list: pass "int flags" as last argument of "show_bisect_vars"
t6030: test bisecting with paths
bisect: use "bisect--helper" and remove "filter_skipped" function
bisect: implement "read_bisect_paths" to read paths in "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES"
bisect--helper: implement "git bisect--helper"
bisect: use the new generic "sha1_pos" function to lookup sha1
rev-list: call new "filter_skip" function
patch-ids: use the new generic "sha1_pos" function to lookup sha1
sha1-lookup: add new "sha1_pos" function to efficiently lookup sha1
rev-list: pass "revs" to "show_bisect_vars"
rev-list: make "show_bisect_vars" non static
rev-list: move code to show bisect vars into its own function
rev-list: move bisect related code into its own file
rev-list: make "bisect_list" variable local to "cmd_rev_list"
refs: add "for_each_ref_in" function to refactor "for_each_*_ref" functions
quote: add "sq_dequote_to_argv" to put unwrapped args in an argv array
...
When doing:
eval "git bisect--helper --next-vars" | {
while read line
do
echo "$line &&"
done
echo ':'
}
the result code comes from the last "echo ':'", not from running
"git bisect--helper --next-vars".
This patch gets rid of the need to string together the line from
the output of "git bisect--helper" with "&&" in the calling script
by making "git bisect--helper --next-vars" return output variables
already in that format.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "git bisect--helper" builtin. It should be faster and
safer instead of the old "filter_skipped" shell function. And it
is a first step to move more shell code to C.
As the output is a little bit different we have to change the code
that interpret the results. But these changes improve code clarity.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "git-bisect.sh" the "git checkout" command is only used to
change the current branch, but it is used like this:
git checkout "$branch"
which will output the following misleading error message when
it fails:
error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git.
This patch change the way we use "git checkout" like this:
git checkout "$branch" --
so that we will get the following error message:
fatal: invalid reference: foo
which is better.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch teaches "git rev-list --bisect-vars" to output an estimate
of the number of bisection step left _after the current one_ along with
the other variables it already outputs.
This patch also makes "git-bisect.sh" display this number of steps left
_after the current one_, along with the estimate of the number of
revisions left to test (after the current one).
Here is a table to help analyse what should be the best estimate for
the number of bisect steps left.
N : linear case --> probabilities --> best
-------------------------------------------------------------
1 : G-B --> 0 --> 0
2 : G-U1-B --> 0 --> 0
3 : G-U1-U2-B --> 0(1/3) 1(2/3) --> 1
4 : G-U1-U2-U3-B --> 1 --> 1
5 : G-U1-U2-U3-U4-B --> 1(3/5) 2(2/5) --> 1
6 : G-U1-U2-U3-U4-U5-B --> 1(2/6) 2(4/6) --> 2
7 : G-U1-U2-U3-U4-U5-U6-B --> 1(1/7) 2(6/7) --> 2
8 : G-U1-U2-U3-U4-U5-U6-U7-B --> 2 --> 2
9 : G-U1-U2-U3-U4-U5-U6-U7-U8-B --> 2(7/9) 3(2/9) --> 2
10: G-U1-U2-U3-U4-U5-U6-U7-U8-U9-B --> 2(6/10)3(4/10)--> 2
In the column "N", there is the number of revisions that could _now_
be the first bad commit we are looking for.
The "linear case" column describes the linear history corresponding to
the number in column N. G means good, B means bad, and Ux means
unknown. Note that the first bad revision we are looking for can be
any Ux or B.
In the "probabilities" column, there are the different outcomes in
number of steps with the odds of each outcome in parenthesis
corresponding to the linear case.
The "best" column gives the most accurate estimate among the different
outcomes in the "probabilities" column.
We have the following:
best(2^n) == n - 1
and for any x between 0 included and 2^n excluded, the probability for
n - 1 steps left looks like:
P(2^n + x) == (2^n - x) / (2^n + x)
and P(2^n + x) < 0.5 means 2^n < 3x
So the algorithm used in this patch calculates 2^n and x, and then
choose between returning n - 1 and n.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is nothing to be skipped, the output from
rev-list --bisect-vars was eval'ed without first being
strung together with &&; this is probably not a problem
as it is much less likely to be a bad input than the list
handcrafted by the filter_skip function, but it still is
a good discipline.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the "bad" commit was also "skip"ped and when more than one
commit was skipped, the "filter_skipped" function would have
printed something like:
bisect_rev=<hash1>|<hash2>
(where <hash1> and <hash2> are hexadecimal sha1 hashes)
and this would have been evaled later as piping "bisect_rev=<hash1>"
into "<hash2>", which would have failed.
So this patch makes the "filter_skipped" function properly quote
what it outputs, so that it will print something like:
bisect_rev='<hash1>|<hash2>'
which will be properly evaled later. The caller was not stopping
properly because the scriptlet this function returned to be evaled
was not strung together with && and because of this, an error in
an earlier part of the output was simply ignored.
A test case is added to the test suite.
And while at it, we also initialize the VARS, FOUND and TRIED
variables, so that we protect ourselves from environment variables
the user may have with these names.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that Cygwin sets the variable SESSIONNAME when an interactive
desktop session is running, and does not set it when you log in via ssh.
So we can use this variable to determine whether to run gitk or git log
in git bisect view.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The patch that allows "git bisect skip" to be passed a range of
commits using the "<commit1>..<commit2>" notation is flawed because
it introduces a regression when it was passed a simple rev or commit.
"git bisect skip <commit>" doesn't work any more, because <commit>
is quoted but not properly unquoted.
This patch fixes that and add tests cases to better check when it is
passed commits and range of commits.
While at it, this patch also properly quotes the non range arguments
using the "sq" function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
The current "git bisect skip" syntax is "git bisect skip [<rev>...]"
so it's already possible to skip a range of revisions using
something like:
$ git bisect skip $(git rev-list A..B)
where A and B are the bounds of the range we want to skip.
This patch teaches "git bisect skip" to accept:
$ git bisect skip A..B
as an abbreviation for the former command.
This is done by checking each argument to see if it contains two
dots one after the other ('..'), and by expending it using
"git rev-list" if that is the case.
Note that this patch will not make "git bisect skip" accept all
that "git rev-list" accepts, as things like "^A B" for exemple
will not work. But things like "A B..C D E F.. ..G H...I" should
work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check to see given bad/good/skip sets are valid commit and to exit
otherwise was broken by 6a54d97 (bisect: remove "checkout_done" variable
used when checking merge bases, 2008-09-06).
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using return values from the following functions:
- check_merge_bases
- check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad
seems simpler.
While at it, let's add some comments to better document the above
functions.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When one good revision is not an ancestor of the bad revision, the
merge bases between the good and the bad revision should be checked
to make sure that they are also good revisions.
A previous patch takes care of that, but it may check the merge bases
more often than really needed. In fact the previous patch did not try
to optimize this as much as possible because it is not so simple. So
this is the purpose of this patch.
One may think that when all the merge bases have been checked then
we can save a flag, so that we don't need to check the merge bases
again during the bisect process.
The problem is that the user may choose to checkout and test
something completely different from what the bisect process
suggested. In this case we have to check the merge bases again,
because there may be new merge bases relevant to the bisect
process.
That's why, in this patch, when we detect that the user tested
something else than what the bisect process suggested, we remove
the flag that says that we don't need to check the merge bases
again.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, "git bisect", when it was given some good revs that
are not ancestor of the bad rev, didn't check if the merge bases were
good. "git bisect" just supposed that the user knew what he was doing,
and that, when he said the revs were good, he knew that it meant that
all the revs in the history leading to the good revs were also
considered good.
But in pratice, the user may not know that a good rev is not an
ancestor of the bad rev, or he may not know/remember that all revs
leading to the good rev will be considered good. So he may give a good
rev that is a sibling, instead of an ancestor, of the bad rev, when in
fact there can be one rev becoming good in the branch of the good rev
(because the bug was already fixed there, for example) instead of one
rev becoming bad in the branch of the bad rev.
For example, if there is the following history:
A--B--C--D
\
E--F
and we launch "git bisect start D F" then only C and D would have been
considered as possible first bad commit before this patch. This could
invite user errors; F could be the commit that fixes the bug that exists
everywhere else.
The purpose of this patch is to detect when "git bisect" is passed
some good revs that are not ancestors of the bad rev, and then to first
ask the user to test the merge bases between the good and bad revs.
If the merge bases are good then all is fine, we can continue
bisecting. Otherwise, if one merge base is bad, it means that the
assumption that all revs leading to the good one are good too is
wrong and we error out. In the case where one merge base is skipped we
issue a warning and then continue bisecting anyway.
These checks will also catch the case where good and bad have been
mistaken. This means that we can remove the check that was done latter
on the output of "git rev-list --bisect-vars".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Given that users are supposed to type 'git bisect' now, make the output
of 'git bisect log' consistent with this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
* maint:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
* maint-1.5.4:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
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>
* maint:
bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message
Force the medium pretty format on calls to git log
Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
Document option --only of git commit
Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
* maint-1.5.4:
bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
Document option --only of git commit
Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
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>
