"git branch -M <foo> <current-branch>" allows updating the current branch
which HEAD points, without the necessary house-keeping that git reset
normally does to make this operation sensible. It also leaves the reflog
in a confusing state (you would be warned when trying to read it).
"git checkout -B <current branch> <foo>" is also partly vulnerable to this
bug; due to inconsistent pre-flight checks it would perform half of its
task and then abort just before rewriting the branch. Again this
manifested itself as the index file getting out-of-sync with HEAD.
"git branch -f" already guarded against this problem, and aborts with
a fatal error.
Update "git branch -M", "git checkout -B" and "git branch -f" to share the
same check before allowing a branch to be created. These prevent you from
updating the current branch.
We considered suggesting the use of "git reset" in the failure message
but concluded that it was not possible to discern what the user was
actually trying to do.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When setting up tracking info, branch.c uses the given branch specifier
("name"). Use the parsed name ("ref.buf") instead so that
git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo
sets up tracking info for the previous branch rather than for a branch
named "@{-1}".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Years of muscle memory have trained users to use "git reset --hard" to
remove the branch state after any sort operation. Make it also remove
the sequencer state to facilitate this established workflow:
$ git cherry-pick foo..bar
... conflict encountered ...
$ git reset --hard # Oops, I didn't mean that
$ git cherry-pick quux..bar
... cherry-pick succeeded ...
Guard against accidental removal of the sequencer state by providing
one level of "undo". In the first "reset" invocation,
".git/sequencer" is moved to ".git/sequencer-old"; it is completely
removed only in the second invocation.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:
$ git commit -c <original commit id>
to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:
$ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.
Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a new branch using the --track option, we must make sure that
we don't try to set an upstream that does not make sense to follow (using
'git pull') or update (using 'git push'). The current code checks against
using HEAD as upstream (since tracking a symref doesn't make sense). However,
tracking a tag doesn't make sense either. Indeed, tracking _any_ ref that is
not a (local or remote) branch doesn't make sense, and should be disallowed.
This patch achieves this by checking that the ref we're trying to --track
resides within refs/heads/* or refs/remotes/*. This new check replaces the
previous check against HEAD.
A couple of testcases are also added, verifying that we cannot create
branches with tags as upstreams.
Finally, some selftests relying on using a non-branch as an upstream have
been reworked or removed:
- t6040: Reverse the meaning of two tests that depend on the ability to
use (lightweight and annotated) tags as upstreams. These two tests were
originally added in commits 1be570f and 57ffc5f, and this patch reverts the
intention of those two commits.
- t7201: Remove part of a test (introduced in 9188ed8) relying on a
non-branch as upstream.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ensure that strcmp() isn't called when head is null.
Previously we were getting segfaults when checkout -B was done from a
detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previous patch allows commands like "git branch --set-upstream foo foo",
which doesn't make much sense. Warn the user and don't change the
configuration in this case. Don't die to let the caller finish its job in
such case.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that
when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing
the ref value.
Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change calls to die(..., strerror(errno)) to use the new die_errno().
In the process, also make slight style adjustments: at least state
_something_ about the function that failed (instead of just printing
the pathname), and put paths in single quotes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a common calling sequence
strbuf_branchname(&ref, name);
strbuf_splice(&ref, 0, 0, "refs/heads/", 11);
if (check_ref_format(ref.buf))
die(...);
to be refactored into
if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&ref, name))
die(...);
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes a user-supplied string that is supposed to be a branch
name, and puts it in a strbuf after expanding possible shorthand notation.
A handful of open coded sequence to do this in the existing code have been
changed to use this helper function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These allow you to say "git checkout @{-2}" to switch to the branch two
"branch switching" ago by pretending as if you typed the name of that
branch. As it is likely that we will be introducing more short-hands to
write the name of a branch without writing it explicitly, rename the
functions from "nth_last_branch" to more generic "branch_name", to prepare
for different semantics.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier patch always spelled the full name of the ref that we track
(e.g. "refs/heads/frotz" instead of just "frotz" when we mean the branch
whose name is "frotz"). Worse yet, because we now use the true name of
the ref at the original repository when talk about a tracking branch that
copies from a remote, such a full name alone still does not give enough
information.
This reorganizes the verbose codepath to:
- differentiate "refs/heads/something" and everything else; we say that
the branch tracks "branch <something>" if it begins with "refs/heads/",
and otherwise the branch tracks "ref refs/<someother>/<something>";
- report the name of the remote when we talk about a tracking branch, by
saying "branch frotz from origin";
- not say "by merging" at the end; it is the default and is not worth
reporting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-clone creates an initial branch it was not checking the
branch.autosetuprebase configuration option (which may exist in
~/.gitconfig). Refactor the code used by "git branch" to create
a new branch, and use it instead of the insufficiently duplicated code
in builtin-clone.
Changes are partly, and the test is mostly, based on the previous work by
Pat Notz.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the new "@{-1} syntax to refer to the previous branch to "git
branch". After looking at somebody's faulty patch series on a topic
branch too long, if you decide it is not worth merging, you can just say:
$ git checkout master
$ git branch -D @{-1}
to get rid of it without having to type the name of the topic you now hate
so much for wasting a lot of your time.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-co-track:
Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD
Fix "checkout --track -b newbranch" on detached HEAD
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
The test to make sure that checkout fails when --track was asked for and
we cannot set up tracking information in t7201 was wrong, and it turns out
that the implementation for that feature itself was buggy. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit 6bb6b034 (builtin-commit: use commit_tree(), 2008-09-10),
builtin-commit performs a reduce_heads() unconditionally. However,
it's not always needed, and in some cases even harmful.
reduce_heads() is not needed for the initial commit or for an
"ordinary" commit, because they don't have any or have only one
parent, respectively.
reduce_heads() must be avoided when 'git commit' is run after a 'git
merge --no-ff --no-commit', otherwise it will turn the
non-fast-forward merge into fast-forward. For the same reason,
reduce_heads() must be avoided when amending such a merge commit.
To resolve this issue, 'git merge' will write info about whether
fast-forward is allowed or not to $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MODE. Based on this
info, 'git commit' will only perform reduce_heads() when it's
committing a merge and fast-forward is enabled.
Also add test cases to ensure that non-fast-forward merges are
committed and amended properly.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If you want to reuse the rerere cache in another repository, and set
a symbolic link to it, you do not want to have the two repositories
interfer with each other by accessing the _same_ MERGE_RR.
For example, if you use contrib/git-new-workdir to set up a second
working directory, and you have a conflict in one working directory,
but commit in the other working directory first, the wrong "resolution"
will be recorded.
The easy solution is to move MERGE_RR out of the rr-cache/ directory,
which also corresponds with the notion that rr-cache/ contains cached
resolutions, not some intermediate temporary states.
Noticed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told
pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This
change provides a configuration option to enable this feature
automatically when creating a new branch.
If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's
being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true.
Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when
the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored
when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out
when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified
was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the
tracking configuration), but now it correctly does.
The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to
"always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line.
Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior
of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches.
Includes test cases for the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can also create branches, in exactly the same way, with checkout -b.
This introduces branch.{c,h} library files for doing porcelain-level
operations on branches (such as creating them with their appropriate
default configuration).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
