The purpose of the new option is to accommodate users who would like
--rebase-merges to be on by default and to facilitate turning on
--rebase-merges by default without configuration in a future version of
Git.
Name the new option rebase.rebaseMerges, even though it is a little
redundant, for consistency with the name of the command line option and
to be clear when scrolling through values in the [rebase] section of
.gitconfig.
Support setting rebase.rebaseMerges to the nonspecific value "true" for
users who don't need to or don't want to learn about the difference
between rebase-cousins and no-rebase-cousins.
Make --rebase-merges without an argument on the command line override
any value of rebase.rebaseMerges in the configuration, for consistency
with other command line flags with optional arguments that have an
associated config option.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When config which selects the merge backend (currently,
rebase.autosquash=true or rebase.updateRefs=true) conflicts with other
options on the command line (such as --whitespace=fix), make the error
message specifically call out the config option and specify how to
override that config option on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-rebase manual noted several sets of incompatible options, but
we were missing tests for a few of these. Further, we were missing
code checks for one of these, which could result in command line
options being silently ignored.
Also, note that adding a check for autosquash means that using
--whitespace=fix together with the config setting rebase.autosquash=true
will trigger an error. A subsequent commit will improve the error
message.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--[no-]reapply-cherry-picks was traditionally only supported by the
sequencer. Support was added for the apply backend, when --keep-base is
also specified, in commit ce5238a690 ("rebase --keep-base: imply
--reapply-cherry-picks", 2022-10-17). Make the code error out when
--[no-]reapply-cherry-picks is specified AND the apply backend is used
AND --keep-base is not specified. Also, clarify a number of comments
surrounding the interaction of these flags.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 5dacd4abdd ("git-rebase.txt: document incompatible options",
2018-06-25), I added notes about incompatibilities between options for
the apply and merge backends. Unfortunately, I inverted the condition
when --root was incompatible with the apply backend. Fix the
documentation, and add a testcase that verifies the documentation
matches the code.
While at it, the documentation for --root also tried to cover some of
the backend differences between the apply and merge backends in relation
to reapplying cherry picks. The information:
* assumed that the apply backend was the default (it isn't anymore)
* was written before --reapply-cherry-picks became an option
* was written before the detailed information on backend differences
All of these factors make the sentence under --root about reapplying
cherry picks contradict information that is now available elsewhere in
the manual, and the other references are correct. So just strike this
sentence.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, we flagged options which implied --apply as being
incompatible with options which implied --merge. But if both options
were given explicitly, then we didn't flag the incompatibility. The
same is true with --apply and --interactive. Add the check, and add
some testcases to verify these are also caught.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--update-refs is built in terms of the sequencer, which requires the
merge backend. It was already marked as incompatible with the apply
backend in the git-rebase manual, but the code didn't check for this
incompatibility and warn the user. Check and error now.
While at it, fix a typo in t3422...and fix some misleading wording
(most options which used to be am-specific have since been implemented
in the merge backend as well).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "checkout" command is one of the main sources of leaks in the test
suite, let's fix the common ones by not leaking from the "struct
branch_info".
Doing this is rather straightforward, albeit verbose, we need to
xstrdup() constant strings going into the struct, and free() the ones
we clobber as we go along.
This also means that we can delete previous partial leak fixes in this
area, i.e. the "path_to_free" accounting added by 96ec7b1e70 (Convert
resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup function, 2011-12-13).
There was some discussion about whether "we should retain the "const
char *" here and cast at free() time, or have it be a "char *". Since
this is not a public API with any sort of API boundary let's use
"char *", as is already being done for the "refname" member of the
same struct.
The tests to mark as passing were found with:
rm .prove; GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t0027 prove -j8 --state=save t[0-9]*.sh :: --immediate
# apply & compile this change
prove -j8 --state=failed :: --immediate
I.e. the ones that were newly passing when the --state=failed command
was run. I left out "t3040-subprojects-basic.sh" and
"t4131-apply-fake-ancestor.sh" to to optimization-level related
differences similar to the ones noted in[1], except that these would
be something the current 'linux-leaks' job would run into.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v3-0.6-00000000000-20211022T175227Z-avarab@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This backend has been deprecated in favor of `git rebase
--rebase-merges`.
In preparation for dropping it, let's remove all the regression tests
that would need it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebase is implemented with two different backends - 'apply' and
'merge' each of which support a different set of options. In
particular the apply backend supports a number of options implemented
by 'git am' that are not implemented in the merge backend. This means
that the available options are different depending on which backend is
used which is confusing. This patch adds support for the
--committer-date-is-author-date option to the merge backend. This
option uses the author date of the commit that is being rewritten as
the committer date when the new commit is created.
Original-patch-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebase is implemented with two different backends - 'apply' and
'merge' each of which support a different set of options. In
particular the apply backend supports a number of options implemented
by 'git am' that are not implemented in the merge backend. This means
that the available options are different depending on which backend is
used which is confusing. This patch adds support for the
--ignore-whitespace option to the merge backend. This option treats
lines with only whitespace changes as unchanged and is implemented in
the merge backend by translating it to -Xignore-space-change.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 5d9324e0f4, reversing
changes made to c58ae96fc4.
The topic turns out to be too buggy for real use.
cf. <f2fe7437-8a48-3315-4d3f-8d51fe4bb8f1@gmail.com>
"git rebase -i" learned a few options that are known by "git
rebase" proper.
* ra/rebase-i-more-options:
rebase -i: finishing touches to --reset-author-date
rebase: add --reset-author-date
rebase -i: support --ignore-date
sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename
rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields
rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag
rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the committer date
by changing it to the author date. Let's add the same for
interactive machinery.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two backends available for rebasing, viz, the am and the
interactive. Naturally, there shall be some features that are
implemented in one but not in the other. One such flag is
--ignore-whitespace which indicates merge mechanism to treat lines
with only whitespace changes as unchanged. Wire the interactive
rebase to also understand the --ignore-whitespace flag by
translating it to -Xignore-space-change.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already support merge strategies in the sequencer, but only for
`pick` commands.
With this commit, we now also support them in `merge` commands. The
approach is simple: if any merge strategy option is specified, or if any
merge strategy other than `recursive` is specified, we simply spawn the
`git merge` command. Otherwise, we handle the merge in-process just as
before.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--preserve-merges` option has been deprecated, and as a consequence
we started to mark test cases that require that option to be supported,
in preparation for removing that support eventually.
Since we marked those test cases, a couple more crept into the test
suite, and with this patch, we mark them, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git rebase has three different types: am, merge, and interactive, all of
which are implemented in terms of separate scripts. am builds on git-am,
merge builds on git-merge-recursive, and interactive builds on
git-cherry-pick. We make use of features in those lower-level commands in
the different rebase types, but those features don't exist in all of the
lower level commands so we have a range of incompatibilities. Previously,
we just accepted nearly any argument and silently ignored whichever ones
weren't implemented for the type of rebase specified. Change this so the
incompatibilities are documented, included in the testsuite, and tested
for at runtime with an appropriate error message shown.
Some exceptions I left out:
* --merge and --interactive are technically incompatible since they are
supposed to run different underlying scripts, but with a few small
changes, --interactive can do everything that --merge can. In fact,
I'll shortly be sending another patch to remove git-rebase--merge and
reimplement it on top of git-rebase--interactive.
* One could argue that --interactive and --quiet are incompatible since
--interactive doesn't implement a --quiet mode (perhaps since
cherry-pick itself does not implement one). However, the interactive
mode is more quiet than the other modes in general with progress
messages, so one could argue that it's already quiet.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git rebase is split into three types: am, merge, and interactive. Various
options imply different types, and which mode we are using determine which
sub-script (git-rebase--$type) is executed to finish the work. Not all
options work with all types, so add tests for combinations where we expect
to receive an error rather than having options be silently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
