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[RFC] updates for git-pull-script

From
JBJames Bottomley <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2005, 14:14 UTC
Message-ID
<1114352069.4997.24.camel@mulgrave>

The current git-pull-script has several behaviours that always trip me up

1) when pulling from a local tree, you have to remember to append
the .git/ directory to the base
2) It always tries to checkout the files ... this drives me nuts since I
don't have a lot of space on my laptop so I keep most trees empty.
3) It doesn't attempt a more sophisticated merge.  The SCSI tree seems
to be the one that always has added or removed files.  Since I think
git-merge-one-file-script is reasonably trustworthy, I made automatic
merges using it one of the pull features.
4) It doesn't remember the old head.  This is useful for unpulling
(pruning back to if the merge misfires) or simply seeing the changes
between the old and new heads.

The attached addresses all these points. It's what I use, but since others may prefer the original behaviour, I'm sending it as a straw horse.

James
--- a/git-pull-script
+++ b/git-pull-script
@@ -3,9 +3,17 @@
 # use "$1" or something in a real script, this 
 # just hard-codes it.
 #
-merge_repo=$1
+merge_repo="$1"
+
+[  -d .git ] || die
+
+if [ -d "$merge_repo" -a -d "$merge_repo/.git" ]; then
+	merge_repo="$merge_repo/.git"
+fi
 
 rm -f .git/MERGE_HEAD
+rm -f .git/OLD_HEAD
+cp .git/HEAD .git/OLD_HEAD
 
 echo "Getting object database"
 rsync -avz --ignore-existing $merge_repo/objects/. .git/objects/.
@@ -32,17 +40,22 @@ if [ "$common" == "$merge_head" ]; then
 fi
 if [ "$common" == "$head" ]; then
 	echo "Updating from $head to $merge_head."
-	echo "Destroying all noncommitted data!"
-	echo "Kill me within 3 seconds.."
-	sleep 3
-	read-tree -m $merge_tree && checkout-cache -f -a && update-cache --refresh
+	echo "Reading the current tree"
+	read-tree -m $merge_tree || exit 1
 	echo $merge_head > .git/HEAD
 	exit 0
 fi
 echo "Trying to merge $merge_head into $head"
 read-tree -m $common_tree $head_tree $merge_tree
-result_tree=$(write-tree) || exit 1
-result_commit=$(echo "Merge $merge_repo" | commit-tree $result_tree -p $head -p $merge_head)
+merge_msg="Merge $merge_repo"
+result_tree=$(write-tree 2>/dev/null)
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+	echo "Simple merge failed, trying Automatic merge"
+	merge-cache git-merge-one-file-script -a
+	merge_msg="Automatic merge of $merge_repo"
+	result_tree=$(write-tree) || exit 1
+fi
+result_commit=$(echo $merge_msg | commit-tree $result_tree -p $head -p $merge_head)
 echo "Committed merge $result_commit"
 echo $result_commit > .git/HEAD
-checkout-cache -f -a && update-cache --refresh
+#checkout-cache -f -a && update-cache --refresh
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  1. James BottomleyApr 24, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  3. James BottomleyApr 24, 2005

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