[PATCH 2/2] rebase: omit patch-identical commits with --fork-point

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Jul 15, 2014, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <01d69c566e04256fb0321ab9685d1f05a80cb41d.1405451643.git.john@keeping.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <47e67c62fb2a8c8846f5d3a12d71aebf8fa875d7.1405451643.git.john@keeping.me.uk>

When the `--fork-point` argument was added to `git rebase`, we changed the value of $upstream to be the fork point instead of the point from which we want to rebase. When $orig_head..$upstream is empty this does not change the behaviour, but when there are new changes in the upstream we are no longer checking if any of them are patch-identical with changes in $upstream..$orig_head.

Fix this by introducing a new variable to hold the fork point and using this to restrict the range as an extra (negative) revision argument so that the set of desired revisions becomes (in fork-point mode):

	git rev-list --cherry-pick --right-only \
		$upstream...$orig_head ^$fork_point

This allows us to correctly handle the scenario where we have the following topology:

	    C --- D --- E  <- dev
	   /
	  B  <- master@{1}
	 /
	o --- B' --- C* --- D*  <- master

where:
- B' is a fixed-up version of B that is not patch-identical with B;
- C* and D* are patch-identical to C and D respectively and conflict
  textually if applied in the wrong order;
- E depends textually on D.

The correct result of `git rebase master dev` is that B is identified as the fork-point of dev and master, so that C, D, E are the commits that need to be replayed onto master; but C and D are patch-identical with C* and D* and so can be dropped, so that the end result is:

	o --- B' --- C* --- D* --- E  <- dev

If the fork-point is not identified, then picking B onto a branch containing B' results in a conflict and if the patch-identical commits are not correctly identified then picking C onto a branch containing D (or equivalently D*) results in a conflict.

This change allows us to handle both of these cases, where previously we either identified the fork-point (with `--fork-point`) but not the patch-identical commits *or* (with `--no-fork-point`) identified the patch-identical commits but not the fact that master had been rewritten.

Reported-by: Ted Felix <ted@tedfelix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
---
 git-rebase--am.sh          | 6 ++++--
 git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 +-
 git-rebase.sh              | 7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-rebase--am.sh b/git-rebase--am.sh
index 902bf2d..f923732 100644
--- a/git-rebase--am.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--am.sh
@@ -45,14 +45,16 @@ then
 	# itself well to recording empty patches.  fortunately, cherry-pick
 	# makes this easy
 	git cherry-pick ${gpg_sign_opt:+"$gpg_sign_opt"} --allow-empty \
-		--right-only "$revisions"
+		--right-only "$revisions" \
+		${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision}
 	ret=$?
 else
 	rm -f "$GIT_DIR/rebased-patches"
 
 	git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index --cherry-pick --right-only \
 		--src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/ --no-renames --no-cover-letter \
-		"$revisions" >"$GIT_DIR/rebased-patches"
+		"$revisions" ${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision} \
+		>"$GIT_DIR/rebased-patches"
 	ret=$?
 
 	if test 0 != $ret
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 7e1eda0..b64dd28 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ else
 fi
 git rev-list $merges_option --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit \
 	--abbrev=7 --reverse --left-right --topo-order \
-	$revisions | \
+	$revisions ${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision} | \
 	sed -n "s/^>//p" |
 while read -r shortsha1 rest
 do
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 06c810b..55da9db 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git rebase --skip" instead.
 To check out the original branch and stop rebasing, run "git rebase --abort".')
 "
 unset onto
+unset restrict_revision
 cmd=
 strategy=
 strategy_opts=
@@ -546,7 +547,7 @@ then
 			"${switch_to:-HEAD}")
 	if test -n "$new_upstream"
 	then
-		upstream=$new_upstream
+		restrict_revision=$new_upstream
 	fi
 fi
 
@@ -572,7 +573,7 @@ require_clean_work_tree "rebase" "$(gettext "Please commit or stash them.")"
 # and if this is not an interactive rebase.
 mb=$(git merge-base "$onto" "$orig_head")
 if test "$type" != interactive && test "$upstream" = "$onto" &&
-	test "$mb" = "$onto" &&
+	test "$mb" = "$onto" && test -z "$restrict_revision" &&
 	# linear history?
 	! (git rev-list --parents "$onto".."$orig_head" | sane_grep " .* ") > /dev/null
 then
@@ -626,7 +627,7 @@ if test -n "$rebase_root"
 then
 	revisions="$onto..$orig_head"
 else
-	revisions="$upstream..$orig_head"
+	revisions="${restrict_revision-$upstream}..$orig_head"
 fi
 
 run_specific_rebase

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2.0.1.472.g6f92e5f.dirty