my_bisect_log3.txt was added by c9c4e2d5a2 (bisect: only check merge
bases when needed, 2008-08-22), but hasn't been used then and since.
Get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Compute several object ID values instead of hard-coding them, and use
test_oid_to_path to cleanly produce a path for an object.
Note that the bisect code which is tested here remains sensitive to the
hash algorithm in use because it uses the object ID to disambiguate
between two equidistant commits. Fortunately, SHA-1 and SHA-256
disambiguate identically in the cases we care about, so there is no need
to modify the test to accommodate this situation. However, if a further
hash algorithm change occurs, this test may require some restructuring.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After completing a bisection, we print out the commit we found using an
internal version of diff-tree. The result is aesthetically lacking:
- it shows a raw diff, which is generally less informative for human
readers than "--stat --summary" (which we already decided was nice
for humans in format-patch's output).
- by not abbreviating hashes, the result is likely to wrap on most
people's terminals
- we don't use "-r", so if the commit touched files in a directory,
you only get to see the top-level directory mentioned
- we don't specify "--cc" or similar, so merges print nothing (not
even the commit message!)
Even though bisect might be driven by scripts, there's no reason to
consider this part of the output as machine-readable (if anything, the
initial "$hash is the first bad commit" might be parsed, but we won't
touch that here). Let's make it prettier and more informative for a
human reading the output.
While we're tweaking the options, let's also switch to using the diff
"ui" config. If we're accepting that this is human-readable output, then
we should respect the user's options for how to display it.
Note that we have to touch a few tests in t6030. These check bisection
in a corrupted repository (it's missing a subtree). They didn't fail
with the previous code, because it didn't actually recurse far enough in
the diff to find the broken tree. But now we'll see the corruption and
complain.
Adjusting the tests to expect the die() is the best fix. We still
confirm that we're able to bisect within the broken repo. And we'll
still print "$hash is the first bad commit" as usual before dying;
showing that is a reasonable outcome in a corrupt repository (and was
what might happen already, if the root tree was corrupt).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement the `get_terms` and `bisect_terms` shell function in C and
add `bisect-terms` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it from
git-bisect.sh .
Using `--bisect-terms` subcommand is a temporary measure to port shell
function in C so as to use the existing test suite. As more functions
are ported, this subcommand will be retired but its implementation will
be called by some other methods.
Also use error() to report "no terms defined" and accordingly change the
test in t6030.
We need to use PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN here to allow for parameters that
look like options (e.g --term-good) but should not be parsed by
cmd_bisect__helper(). This change is safe because all other cmdmodes have
strict argc checks already.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Mentored-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tanushree Tumane <tanushreetumane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add test to explicitly check that 'git bisect reset' is working as
expected. This is already covered implicitly by the test suite.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_must_fail should only be used for testing git commands. To test the
failure of other commands use `!`.
Reported-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the last message, involving Q_(), try to mark the message in such way
that is suited for RTL (Right to Left) languages.
Update test t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh to reflect the changes.
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the git bisect output tested here is subject to translation, the
helper function test_i18ncmp should be used over test_cmp.
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a natural user-interface when looking for any change in the
code, not just regression. For example:
git bisect start --term-old fast --term-new slow
git bisect fast
git bisect slow
...
There were several proposed user-interfaces for this feature. This patch
implements it as options to 'git bisect start' for the following reasons:
* By construction, the terms will be valid for one and only one
bisection.
* Unlike positional arguments, using named options avoid having to
remember an order.
* We can combine user-defined terms and passing old/new commits as
argument to "git bisect start".
* The implementation is relatively simple.
See previous discussions:
http://mid.gmane.org/1435337896-20709-3-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When not looking for a regression during a bisect but for a fix or a
change in another given property, it can be confusing to use 'good'
and 'bad'.
This patch introduce `git bisect new` and `git bisect old` as an
alternative to 'bad' and good': the commits which have a certain
property must be marked as `new` and the ones which do not as `old`.
The output will be the first commit after the change in the property.
During a new/old bisect session you cannot use bad/good commands and
vice-versa.
Some commands are still not available for old/new:
* git rev-list --bisect does not treat the revs/bisect/new and
revs/bisect/old-SHA1 files.
Old discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063
introduced bisect fix unfixed to find fix.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182398
discussion around bisect yes/no or old/new.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199758
last discussion and reviews
New discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271320
( v2 1/7-4/7 )
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271343
( v2 5/7-7/7 )
Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We can get rid of a lot of hand-rolled error messages by
using test_must_fail and test_expect_code. The existing code
was careful to use "|| return 1" when breaking the
&&-chain, but it did fool --chain-lint; the new code is more
idiomatic.
We also add some uses of test_when_finished, which is less
cryptic and more robust than putting code at the end of a
test. In two cases we run "git bisect reset" from a
subshell, which is a problem for test_when_finished (it
would not run). However, in both of these cases, we are
performing the tests in one-off sub-repos, so we do not need
to clean up at all (and in fact it is nicer not to if the
user wants to inspect the trash directory after a failure).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the bisection completes with only skipped commits left to as possible
first bad commit, output the list of possible first bad commits to human
readers of the bisection log.
Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When bisect successfully finds a single revision, the first bad commit
should be shown to human readers of 'git bisect log'.
This resolves the apparent disconnect between the bisection result and
the log when a bug reporter says "I know that the first bad commit is
$rev, as you can see from $(git bisect log)".
Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
kwset: fix spelling in comments
precompose-utf8: fix spelling of "want" in error message
compat/nedmalloc: fix spelling in comments
compat/regex: fix spelling and grammar in comments
obstack: fix spelling of similar
contrib/subtree: fix spelling of accidentally
git-remote-mediawiki: spelling fixes
doc: various spelling fixes
fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
i18n: make the translation of -u advice in one go
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current message is "bisecting %s" (or "bisecting branch %s").
"%s" is the current branch when we started bisecting. Clarify that to
avoid confusion with good and bad refs passed to "bisect" command.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prints more helpful info when HEAD is detached: is it detached
because of bisect or rebase? What is the original branch name in those
cases? Is it detached because the user checks out a remote ref or a
tag (and which one)?
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A function for checking that two given parameters refer to the same
revision was defined in several places, so move the definition to
test-lib-functions.sh instead.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prefer:
test_line_count <OP> COUNT FILE
over:
test $(wc -l <FILE) <OP> COUNT
(or similar usages) in several tests.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change a i18n-specific grep in t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh to use
test_i18ngrep instead. This was introduced in v1.7.7.2~5^2~11 and has
been broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease since.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some platforms (IRIX, Solaris) provide an ancient /bin/sh which chokes on
modern shell syntax like $(). SHELL_PATH is provided to allow the user to
specify a working sh, let's use it here.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This enhances the support for bisecting history in bare repositories.
The "git bisect" command no longer needs to be run inside a repository
with a working tree; it defaults to --no-checkout when run in a bare
repository.
Two tests are included to demonstrate this behaviour.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These tests verify that git-bisect --no-checkout can successfully
bisect commit histories that reference damaged trees.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git bisect start' modifies some state prior to checking
that its arguments are valid.
This change moves argument validation before state modification
with the effect that state modification does not occur
unless argument validations succeeds.
An existing test is changed to check that new bisect state
is not created if arguments are invalid.
A new test is added to check that existing bisect state
is not modified if arguments are invalid.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Breaks in a test assertion's && chain can potentially hide
failures from earlier commands in the chain.
Commands intended to fail should be marked with !, test_must_fail, or
test_might_fail. The examples in this patch do not require that.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As reported by Mark Lodato, "git bisect", when it was started with
path parameters that match no commit was kind of working without
taking account of path parameters and was reporting something like:
Bisecting: -1 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps)
It is more correct and safer to just error out in this case, before
displaying the revisions left, so this patch does just that.
Note that this bug is very old, it exists at least since v1.5.5.
And it is possible to detect that case earlier in the bisect
algorithm, but it is not clear that it would be an improvement to
error out earlier, on the contrary it may change the behavior of
"git rev-list --bisect-all" for example, which is currently correct.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using a PRNG (pseudo random number generator) with a bias should be better
than alternating between 3 fixed ratios.
In repositories with many untestable commits it should prevent alternating
between areas where many commits are untestable. The bias should favor
commits that can give more information, so that the bisection process
should not loose much efficiency.
HPA suggested to use a PRNG and found that the best bias is to raise a
ratio between 0 and 1 given by the PRNG to the power 1.5.
An integer square root function is implemented to avoid including
<math.h> and linking with -lm.
A PRNG function is implemented to get the same number sequence on
different machines as suggested by "man 3 rand".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We must save the pending commits that will be used during revision
walking and unparse them after, because we want to leave a clean
state for the next revision walking that will try to find the best
bisection point.
As we don't fork a process anymore to call "git rev-list", we need
to remove the use of GIT_TRACE to check how "git rev-list" is
called from the t6030 test that uses it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds some tests to check that "git bisect" works fine when
passing paths to "git bisect start" to reduce the number of
bisection steps.
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>
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>
* cc/bisect:
bisect: remove "checkout_done" variable used when checking merge bases
bisect: only check merge bases when needed
bisect: test merge base if good rev is not an ancestor of bad rev
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>
t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh relies on "ls" exiting with nonzero
status when asked to list nonexistent files. Unfortunately,
/bin/ls on Mac OS X 10.3 exits with exit code 0. So look at
its output instead.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-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>
