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Re: Git 2 force commits but Git 1 doesn't

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René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Jun 23, 2020, 08:59 UTC
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<09a7fa54-d7ae-772c-fb36-29dbd27bc626@web.de>
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Am 23.06.20 um 03:05 schrieb brian m. carlson:
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> On 2020-06-22 at 22:17:21, Michael Ward wrote:
>> This is assuming that the repository is completely empty to start. Setup:
>>
>> git clone [repository] repo1
>> git clone [repository] repo2
>> cd repo1
>> echo "test1" > testfile
>> git add testfile
>> git commit -m 'initializing test from 1'
>> git push
>> cd ../repo2
>> git pull
>> cd ../repo1
>>
>> Now for the issue:
>>
>> echo "test1 update" >> testfile
>> git add testfile
>> git commit -m 'update test from 1'
>> git push
>> cd ../repo2
>> echo "test2" >> testfile
>> git commit -m 'update test from 2'
>> git push
>>
>> At this point using the git 2.26 client if I pull in repo1, the commit with
>> comment "update test from 1" is gone and the head is now the commit from 2
>> with "update test from 2" as the comment along with a borked tree. Using the
>> 1.18 client, the push from 2 will prompt to pull first.
>
> Thanks, I can reproduce this with the following test in t5540:
>
> test_expect_success 'non-force push fails if not up to date' '
> 	git init --bare "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH"/test_repo_conflict.git &&
> 	git -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH"/test_repo_conflict.git update-server-info &&
> 	git clone $HTTPD_URL/dumb/test_repo_conflict.git "$ROOT_PATH"/c1 &&
> 	git clone $HTTPD_URL/dumb/test_repo_conflict.git "$ROOT_PATH"/c2 &&
> 	test_commit -C "$ROOT_PATH/c1" path1 &&
> 	git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c1" push origin HEAD &&
> 	git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c2" pull &&
> 	test_commit -C "$ROOT_PATH/c1" path2 &&
> 	git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c1" push origin HEAD &&
> 	test_commit -C "$ROOT_PATH/c2" path3 &&
> 	git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c1" log --graph --all &&
> 	git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c2" log --graph --all &&
> 	test_must_fail git -C "$ROOT_PATH/c2" push origin HEAD
> '
>
> The relevant code is here:
>
> 			if (!has_object_file(&ref->old_oid) ||
> 			    !ref_newer(&ref->peer_ref->new_oid,
> 				       &ref->old_oid)) {
>
> In this case, ref_newer returns 1 (true), which is wrong.  _However_, if
> I add a debugging statement that prints ref_newer immediately above that
> line, like so:
>
> 			fprintf(stderr, "debug: a: %s %s %d\n", oid_to_hex(&ref->old_oid), oid_to_hex(&ref->peer_ref->new_oid), ref_newer(&ref->peer_ref->new_oid, &ref->old_oid));
>
> The test starts passing (that is, ref_newer must return 0).
>
> I'm CCing Derrick Stolee, to whom that code blames, because I'm not sure
> that we should be returning different results in this case with what
> must be the same arguments.

The following patch helps by avoiding a commit flag collision between http-push.c and commit-reach.c. I don't know if it causes other collisions, though.

How could we possibly check that? Perhaps by having a commit flag register (a global unsigned int) and having functions announce their bits in it. Colliding announcements would BUG().

diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
index 822f326599..99adbebdcf 100644
--- a/http-push.c
+++ b/http-push.c
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ enum XML_Status {
 #define LOCK_REFRESH 30

 /* Remember to update object flag allocation in object.h */
-#define LOCAL    (1u<<16)
-#define REMOTE   (1u<<17)
-#define FETCHING (1u<<18)
-#define PUSHING  (1u<<19)
+#define LOCAL    (1u<<11)
+#define REMOTE   (1u<<12)
+#define FETCHING (1u<<13)
+#define PUSHING  (1u<<14)

 /* We allow "recursive" symbolic refs. Only within reason, though */
 #define MAXDEPTH 5
diff --git a/object.h b/object.h
index b22328b838..a496d2e4e1 100644
--- a/object.h
+++ b/object.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct object_array {
  * builtin/blame.c:                        12-13
  * bisect.c:                                        16
  * bundle.c:                                        16
- * http-push.c:                                     16-----19
+ * http-push.c:                          11-----14
  * commit-graph.c:                                15
  * commit-reach.c:                                  16-----19
  * sha1-name.c:                                              20
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  1. Michael WardJun 22, 2020
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  15. http-push: ensure unforced pushes fail when data would be lostbrian m. carlson, Jun 23, 2020
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  18. http-push: ensure unforced pushes fail when data would be lostbrian m. carlson, Jun 23, 2020
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