If the user tried to detach their HEAD while keeping the working
directory on the same commit we actually did not completely do
a detach operation internally. The problem was caused by git-gui
not forcing the HEAD symbolic ref to be updated to a SHA-1 hash
when we were not switching revisions. Now we update the HEAD ref
if we aren't currently detached or the hashes don't match.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Also, the warning message when clicking "Reset" is adapted to
the wording "Reset" rather than a confusion "Cancel commit?".
Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we are checking out the branch we are already on then there is no
need to call symbolic-ref to update the HEAD pointer to the "new"
branch name, it is already correct.
Currently this situation does not happen very often, but it can be
seen in some workflows where the user always recreates their local
branch from a remote tracking branch and more-or-less ignores what
branch he/she is on right now. As they say, ignorance is bliss.
This case will however become a tad more common when we overload
checkout_op to actually also perform all of our merges. In that
case we will likely see that the branch we want to "checkout" is
the current branch, as we are actually just merging into it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we are trying to checkout a local branch which is matched to a
remote tracking branch, but the local branch is newer than the remote
tracking branch we actually just want to switch to the local branch.
The local branch is "Already up to date".
Unfortunately we tossed away the local branch's commit SHA-1 and kept
the remote tracking branch's SHA-1, which meant that the user lost the
local changes when we updated the working directory. At least we did
not update the local branch ref, so the user's data was still intact.
We now toss the tracking branch's SHA-1 and replace with the local
branch's SHA-1 before the checkout, ensuring that we pass of the right
tree to git-read-tree when we update the working directory.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is actually just an underlying code improvement that has no user
visible component yet. UI improvements to actually fetch and merge via
an arbitrary remote with no tracking branches must still follow to make
this change useful for the end-user.
Our tracking branch specifications are a Tcl list of three components:
- local tracking branch name
- remote name/url
- remote branch name/tag name
This change just makes the first element optional. If it is an empty
string we will run the fetch, but have the value be saved only into the
special .git/FETCH_HEAD, where we can pick it up and use it for this one
time operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I totally missed this obvious optimization in the checkout code path.
If our current repository HEAD is actually at the commit we are moving
to, and we agreed to perform this switch earlier, then we have no files
to update in the working directory and any stale mtimes are simply not
of consequence right now. We can pretend like we ran a read-tree and
skip right into the post-read-tree work, such as updating the branch
and setting the symbolic-ref.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we are given a merge type we don't understand in checkout_op there
is probably a bug in git-gui somewhere that allowed this unknown merge
strategy to come into this part of the code path. We currently only
recognize three merge types ('none', 'ff' and 'reset') but are going
to be supporting more in the future. Rather than keep editing this
message I'm going with a very generic "Uh, we don't do that!" type of
error.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
In both the ff and reset merge_types supported by checkout_op the
result is the same if the merge base of our target commit and the
existing commit is the existing commit: its a fast-forward as the
existing commit is fully contained in the target commit.
This minor cleanup in logic will make it easier to implement a
new kind of merge_type that actually merges the two trees with a
real merge strategy, such as git-merge-recursive.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I've decided to teach checkout_op how to perform more than just a
fast-forward and reset type of merge. This way we can also do a full
recursive merge even when we are recreating an existing branch from
a remote. To help with that process I'm saving the merge-base we
computed during the ff/reset/fail decision process, in case we need
it later on when we actually start a true merge operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Rather than making the C library search for git every time we want
to execute it we now search for the main git wrapper at startup, do
symlink resolution, and then always use the absolute path that we
found to execute the binary later on. This should save us some
cycles, especially on stat challenged systems like Cygwin/Win32.
While I was working on this change I also converted all of our
existing pipes ([open "| git ..."]) to use two new pipe wrapper
functions. These functions take additional options like --nice
and --stderr which instructs Tcl to take special action, like
running the underlying git program through `nice` (if available)
or redirect stderr to stdout for capture in Tcl.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sometimes switching between branches can take more than a second or
two, in which case `git checkout` would normally have shown a small
progress meter to the user on the terminal to let them know that we
are in fact working, and give them a reasonable idea of when we may
finish.
We now do obtain that progress meter from read-tree -v and include
it in our main window's status bar. This allows users to see how
many files we have checked out, how many remain, and what percentage
of the operation is completed. It should help to keep users from
getting bored during a large checkout operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a major rewrite of the way we perform switching between
branches and the subsequent update of the working directory. Like
core Git we now use a single code path to perform all changes: our
new checkout_op class. We also use it for branch creation/update
as it integrates the tracking branch fetch process along with a
very basic merge (fast-forward and reset only currently).
Because some users have literally hundreds of local branches we
use the standard revision picker (with its branch filtering tool)
to select the local branch, rather than keeping all of the local
branches in the Branch menu. The branch menu listing out all of
the available branches is simply not sane for those types of huge
repositories.
Users can now checkout a detached head by ticking off the option
in the checkout dialog. This option is off by default for the
obvious reason, but it can be easily enabled for any local branch
by simply checking it. We also detach the head if any non local
branch was selected, or if a revision expression was entered.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
