save_opts() should save any non-default values. It was intended to do
this, but since most options in struct replay_opts default to 0, it only
saved non-zero values. Unfortunately, this does not always work for
options.edit. Roughly speaking, options.edit had a default value of 0
for cherry-pick but a default value of 1 for revert. Make save_opts()
record a value whenever it differs from the default.
options.edit was also overly simplistic; we had more than two cases.
The behavior that previously existed was as follows:
Non-conflict commits Right after Conflict
revert Edit iff isatty(0) Edit (ignore isatty(0))
cherry-pick No edit See above
Specify --edit Edit (ignore isatty(0)) See above
Specify --no-edit (*) See above
(*) Before stopping for conflicts, No edit is the behavior. After
stopping for conflicts, the --no-edit flag is not saved so see
the first two rows.
However, the expected behavior is:
Non-conflict commits Right after Conflict
revert Edit iff isatty(0) Edit iff isatty(0)
cherry-pick No edit Edit iff isatty(0)
Specify --edit Edit (ignore isatty(0)) Edit (ignore isatty(0))
Specify --no-edit No edit No edit
In order to get the expected behavior, we need to change options.edit
to a tri-state: unspecified, false, or true. When specified, we follow
what it says. When unspecified, we need to check whether the current
commit being created is resolving a conflict as well as consulting
options.action and isatty(0). While at it, add a should_edit() utility
function that compresses options.edit down to a boolean based on the
additional information for the non-conflict case.
continue_single_pick() is the function responsible for resuming after
conflict cases, regardless of whether there is one commit being picked
or many. Make this function stop assuming edit behavior in all cases,
so that it can correctly handle !isatty(0) and specific requests to not
edit the commit message.
Reported-by: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Preparation for a new merge strategy.
* en/merge-ort-api-null-impl:
merge,rebase,revert: select ort or recursive by config or environment
fast-rebase: demonstrate merge-ort's API via new test-tool command
merge-ort-wrappers: new convience wrappers to mimic the old merge API
merge-ort: barebones API of new merge strategy with empty implementation
Allow the testsuite to run where it treats requests for "recursive" or
the default merge algorithm via consulting the environment variable
GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM which is expected to either be "recursive" (the
old traditional algorithm) or "ort" (the new algorithm).
Also, allow folks to pick the new algorithm via config setting. It
turns out builtin/merge.c already had a way to allow users to specify a
different default merge algorithm: pull.twohead. Rather odd
configuration name (especially to be in the 'pull' namespace rather than
'merge') but it's there. Add that same configuration to rebase,
cherry-pick, and revert.
This required updating the various callsites that called merge_trees()
or merge_recursive() to conditionally call the new API, so this serves
as another demonstration of what the new API looks and feels like.
There are almost certainly some callsites that have not yet been
modified to work with the new merge algorithm, but this represents the
ones that I have been testing with thus far.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt.
Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a
definite nor indefinite article.
Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in
Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite
inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`.
First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the
phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led
to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or
definite article consistently.
The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425 (Documentation updates,
2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a5 (Add
--signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to
using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former
commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one
or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent.
Junio stated on the git mailing list in
<xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off
the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the
documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option
help strings.
Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to
refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we
are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such,
prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits.
However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use
Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific
trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in
comparison with Signed-off-by.
Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
sequencer: add advice for revert
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
t2027: use test_must_be_empty
Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
doc: promote "git restore"
user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
completion: support restore
t: add tests for restore
restore: support --patch
restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
restore: add --worktree and --staged
checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
restore: disable overlay mode by default
restore: make pathspec mandatory
restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
doc: promote "git switch"
...
git am or rebase have a --skip flag to skip the current commit if the
user wishes to do so. During a cherry-pick or revert a user could
likewise skip a commit, but needs to use 'git reset' (or in the case
of conflicts 'git reset --merge'), followed by 'git (cherry-pick |
revert) --continue' to skip the commit. This is more annoying and
sometimes confusing on the users' part. Add a `--skip` option to make
skipping commits easier for the user and to make the commands more
consistent.
In the next commit, we will change the advice messages hence finishing
the process of teaching revert and cherry-pick "how to skip commits".
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug where the scissors line is placed after the Conflicts:
section, in the case where a merge conflict occurs and
commit.cleanup = scissors.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After a successful switch, if a merge, cherry-pick or revert is ongoing,
it is canceled. This behavior has been with us from the very early
beginning, soon after git-merge was created but never actually
documented [1]. It may be a good idea to be transparent and tell the
user if some operation is canceled.
I consider this a better way of telling the user than just adding a
sentence or two in git-checkout.txt, which will be mostly ignored
anyway.
PS. Originally I wanted to print more details like
warning: cancelling an in-progress merge from <SHA-1>
which may allow some level of undo if the user wants to. But that seems
a lot more work. Perhaps it can be improved later if people still want
that.
[1] ... and I will try not to argue whether it is a sensible behavior.
There is some more discussion here if people are interested:
CACsJy8Axa5WsLSjiscjnxVK6jQHkfs-gH959=YtUvQkWriAk5w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that the_hash_algo stays, even if we can easily replace it with
repo->hash_algo. My reason is I still believe tying hash_algo to a
struct repository is a wrong move. But if I'm wrong, we can always go
for another round of conversion.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we're going to pass 'struct repository *' around most of the
time instead of 'struct index_state *' because most sequencer.c
operations need more than just the index, the_repository is replaced
as well in the functions that now take 'struct repository
*'. the_repository is still present in this file, but total clean up
will be done later. It's not the main focus of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce optname() that does the early half of original opterror() to
come up with the name of the option reported back to the user, and use
it to kill opterror(). The callers of opterror() now directly call
error() using the string returned by opterror() instead.
There are a few issues with opterror()
- it tries to assemble an English sentence from pieces. This is not
great for translators because we give them pieces instead of a full
sentence.
- It's a wrapper around error() and needs some hack to let the
compiler know it always returns -1.
- Since it takes a string instead of printf format, one call site has
to assemble the string manually before passing to it.
Using error() directly solves the second and third problems.
It kind helps the first problem as well because "%s does foo" does
give a translator a full sentence in a sense and let them reorder if
needed. But it has limitations, if the subject part has to change
based on the rest of the sentence, that language is screwed. This is
also why I try to avoid calling optname() when 'flags' is known in
advance.
Mark of these strings for translation as well while at there.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick --quit" failed to remove CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even
though we won't be in a cherry-pick session after it returns, which
has been corrected.
* nd/cherry-pick-quit-fix:
cherry-pick: fix --quit not deleting CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
--quit is supposed to be --abort but without restoring HEAD. Leaving
CHERRY_PICK_HEAD behind could make other commands mistake that
cherry-pick is still ongoing (e.g. "git commit --amend" will refuse to
work). Clean it too.
For --abort, this job of deleting CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is on "git reset"
so we don't need to do anything else. But let's add extra checks in
--abort tests to confirm.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous config handling relied on global variables, called
git_default_config() even when the key had already been handled by
git_sequencer_config() and did not initialize the diff configuration
variables. Improve this by: i) loading the default values for message
cleanup and gpg signing of commits into struct replay_opts;
ii) restructuring the code to return immediately once a key is
handled; and iii) calling git_diff_basic_config(). Note that
unfortunately it is not possible to return early if the key is handled
by git_gpg_config() as it does not indicate to the caller if the key
has been handled or not.
The sequencer should probably have been calling
git_diff_basic_config() before as it creates a patch when there are
conflicts. The shell version uses 'diff-tree' to create the patch so
calling git_diff_basic_config() should match that. Although 'git
commit' calls git_diff_ui_config() I don't think the output of
print_commit_summary() is affected by anything that is loaded by that
as print_commit_summary() always turns on rename detection so would
ignore the value in the user's configuration anyway. The other values
loaded by git_diff_ui_config() are about the formatting of patches so
are not relevant to print_commit_summary().
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Load default values for message cleanup and gpg signing of commits in
preparation for committing without forking 'git commit'. Note that we
interpret commit.cleanup=scissors to mean COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_SPACE to
be consistent with 'git commit'
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cherry-pick and revert should not accept --[no-]rerere-autoupdate once
they have started.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git revert -m 0 $merge_commit" complained that reverting a merge
needs to say relative to which parent the reversion needs to
happen, as if "-m 0" weren't given. The correct diagnosis is that
"-m 0" does not refer to the first parent ("-m 1" does). This has
been fixed.
* jk/cherry-pick-0-mainline:
cherry-pick: detect bogus arguments to --mainline
The cherry-pick and revert commands use OPT_INTEGER() to
parse --mainline. The stock parser is smart enough to reject
non-numeric nonsense, but it doesn't know that parent
counting starts at 1.
Worse, the value "0" is indistinguishable from the unset
case, so a user who assumes the counting is 0-based will get
a confusing message:
$ git cherry-pick -m 0 $merge
error: commit ... is a merge but no -m option was given.
Let's use a custom callback that enforces our range.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The subcommands are used exactly once, at the very beginning of
sequencer_pick_revisions(), to determine what to do. This is an
unnecessary level of indirection: we can simply call the correct
function to begin with. So let's do that.
While at it, ensure that the subcommands return an error code so that
they do not have to die() all over the place (bad practice for library
functions...).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sequencer is our attempt to lib-ify cherry-pick. Yet it behaves
like a one-shot command when it reads its configuration: memory is
allocated and released only when the command exits.
This is kind of okay for git-cherry-pick, which *is* a one-shot
command. All the work to make the sequencer its work horse was
done to allow using the functionality as a library function, though,
including proper clean-up after use.
To remedy that, take custody of the option values in question,
allocating and duping literal constants as needed and freeing them
at end.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change is not completely faithful: instead of initializing all fields
to 0, we choose to initialize command and subcommand to -1 (instead of
defaulting to REPLAY_REVERT and REPLAY_NONE, respectively). Practically,
it makes no difference at all, but future-proofs the code to require
explicit assignments for both fields.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In exactly one callers (builtin/revert.c), we build up the
options list dynamically from multiple arrays. We do so by
manually inserting "filler" entries into one array, and then
copying the other array into the allocated space.
This is tedious and error-prone, as you have to adjust the
filler any time the second array is modified (although we do
at least check and die() when the counts do not match up).
Instead, let's just allocate a new array.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that
you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command
line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to
use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid
this strangeness.
Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e.
- GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id";
- Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and
- Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date".
and update the corresponding documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick" without further options would segfault.
Could use a follow-up to handle '-' after argv[1] better.
* hu/cherry-pick-previous-branch:
cherry-pick: handle "-" after parsing options
Currently, we only try converting argv[1] from "-" into "@{-1}". This
means we do not notice "-" when used together with an option. Worse,
when "git cherry-pick" is run with no options, we segfault. Fix this
by doing the substitution after we have checked that there is
something in argv to cherry-pick and know any remaining options are
meant for the revision-listing machinery.
This still does not handle "-" after the first non-cherry-pick option.
For example,
git cherry-pick foo~2 - bar~5
and
git cherry-pick --no-merges -
will still dump usage.
Reported-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Just like "git checkout -" knows to check out and "git merge -"
knows to merge the branch you were previously on, "git cherry-pick"
now understands "git cherry-pick -" to pick from the previous
branch.
* hu/cherry-pick-previous-branch:
cherry-pick: allow "-" as abbreviation of '@{-1}'
"-" abbreviation is handy for "cherry-pick" like "checkout" and "merge".
It's also good for uniformity that a "-" stands as
the name of the previous branch where a branch name is
accepted and it could not mean any other things like stdin.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshige Umino <hiroshige88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The revert command comes with their own implementation of checking
for exclusiveness of parameters.
Now that the OPT_CMDMODE is in place, we can also rely on that macro
instead of cooking that solution for each command itself.
This commit also replaces OPT_BOOLEAN, which was deprecated by b04ba2bb
(parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN, 2011-09-27). Instead OPT_BOOL is
used.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sentinel function attribute is not understood by versions of
the gcc compiler prior to v4.0. At present, for earlier versions
of gcc, the build issues 108 warnings related to the unknown
attribute. In order to suppress the warnings, we conditionally
define the LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL macro to provide the sentinel attribute
for gcc v4.0 and newer.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This attribute can help gcc notice when callers forget to
add a NULL sentinel to the end of the function. This is our
first use of the sentinel attribute, but we shouldn't need
to #ifdef for other compilers, as __attribute__ is already a
no-op on non-gcc-compatible compilers.
Suggested-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
More-Spots-Found-By: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage string for cherry-pick and revert has never been updated to
reflect their ability to handle multiple commits. Other documentation is
already correct.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally expects.
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order:
cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick
demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two'
teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h".
* nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits)
Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
Reduce translations by using same terminologies
i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation
...
When giving multiple individual revisions to cherry-pick or revert, as
in 'git cherry-pick A B' or 'git revert B A', one would expect them to
be picked/reverted in the order given on the command line. They are
instead ordered by their commit timestamp -- in chronological order
for "cherry-pick" and in reverse chronological order for
"revert". This matches the order in which one would usually give them
on the command line, making this bug somewhat hard to notice. Still,
it has been reported at least once before [1].
It seems like the chronological sorting happened by accident because
the revision walker has traditionally always sorted commits in reverse
chronological order when rev_info.no_walk was enabled. In the case of
'git revert B A' where B is newer than A, this sorting is a no-op. For
'git cherry-pick A B', the sorting would reverse the arguments, but
because the sequencer also flips the rev_info.reverse flag when
picking (as opposed to reverting), the end result is a chronological
order. The rev_info.reverse flag was probably flipped so that the
revision walker emits B before C in 'git cherry-pick A..C'; that it
happened to effectively undo the unexpected sorting done when not
walking, was probably a coincidence that allowed this bug to happen at
all.
Fix the bug by telling the revision walker not to sort the commits
when not walking. The only case we want to reverse the order is now
when cherry-picking and walking revisions (rev_info.no_walk = 0).
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164794
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git log' is passed the --no-walk option, no revision walk takes
place, naturally. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the provided
revisions still get sorted by commit date. So e.g 'git log --no-walk
HEAD HEAD~1' and 'git log --no-walk HEAD~1 HEAD' give the same result
(unless the two revisions share the commit date, in which case they
will retain the order given on the command line). As the commit that
introduced --no-walk (8e64006 (Teach revision machinery about
--no-walk, 2007-07-24)) points out, the sorting is intentional, to
allow things like
git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate --all --no-walk
to show all refs in order by commit date.
But there are also other cases where the sorting is not wanted, such
as
<command producing revisions in order> |
git log --oneline --no-walk --stdin
To accomodate both cases, leave the decision of whether or not to sort
up to the caller, by allowing --no-walk={sorted,unsorted}, defaulting
to 'sorted' for backward-compatibility reasons.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Scripts such as "git rebase -i" cannot currently cherry-pick commits
which have an empty commit message, as git cherry-pick calls git
commit without the --allow-empty-message option.
Add an --allow-empty-message option to git cherry-pick which is passed
through to git commit, so this behaviour can be overridden.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce
any change in the original history.
By Neil Horman
* nh/empty-rebase:
git-rebase: add keep_empty flag
git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options
git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option
git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option
The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can be
both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a path
in the context of the command.
The issue the patch addresses is real, but the way it is implemented felt
unnecessarily invasive a bit. It may be cleaner for this caller to add
the "--" to the end of the argv_array it passes to setup_revisions().
By Clemens Buchacher
* cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion:
cherry-pick: do not expect file arguments
The git-cherry-pick --allow-empty command by default only preserves empty
commits that were originally empty, i.e only those commits for which
<commit>^{tree} and <commit>^^{tree} are equal. By default commits which are
non-empty, but were made empty by the inclusion of a prior commit on the current
history are filtered out. This option allows us to override that behavior and
include redundant commits as empty commits in the change history.
Note that this patch changes the default behavior of git cherry-pick slightly.
Prior to this patch all commits in a cherry-pick sequence were applied and git
commit was run. The implication here was that, if a commit was redundant, and
the commit did not trigger the fast forward logic, the git commit operation, and
therefore the git cherry-pick operation would fail, displaying the cherry pick
advice (i.e. run git commit --allow-empty). With this patch however, such
redundant commits are automatically skipped without stopping, unless
--keep-redundant-commits is specified, in which case, they are automatically
applied as empty commits.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a commit-ish passed to cherry-pick or revert happens to have a file
of the same name, git complains that the argument is ambiguous and
advises to use '--'. To make things worse, the '--' argument is removed
by parse_options, und so passing '--' has no effect.
Instead, always interpret cherry-pick/revert arguments as revisions.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
