git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] gitk: Fix warning when removing a branch (take 2)

From
Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date
Aug 16, 2007, 01:08 UTC
Message-ID
<11872265153600-git-send-email-mdl123@verizon.net>

Issue a warning about branch deletion unless gitk knows by name at least two branch heads pointing to the referenced commit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
---

Paul - your commit b1054ac98 did not solve this for me. Playing around, I've several times received errors like this when trying to delete a branch:

can't read "idheads(f7b9ebd595c954cd0803e6b6f1f0f96a966e04c9 a890c4fca84a2a5c7835fe6432ede3e7c4e5426b)": no such element in array
can't read "idheads(f7b9ebd595c954cd0803e6b6f1f0f96a966e04c9 a890c4fca84a2a5c7835fe6432ede3e7c4e5426b)": no such element in array
    while executing
"if {$idheads($dheads) eq $head} {
	# the stuff on this branch isn't on any other branch
	if {![confirm_popup "The commits on branch $head aren't on an..."
    (procedure "rmbranch" line 13)
    invoked from within
"rmbranch"
    (menu invoke)

However, I took a different approach: if the commit in question has at least two branch heads as descendents, deleting one will not leave it dangling. I am not sure your code attempted to do this anyway.

 gitk |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index aa8baf8..d99a974 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -6208,10 +6208,16 @@ proc rmbranch {} {
 	return
     }
     set dheads [descheads $id]
-    if {$idheads($dheads) eq $head} {
-	# the stuff on this branch isn't on any other branch
-	if {![confirm_popup "The commits on branch $head aren't on any other\
-			branch.\nReally delete branch $head?"]} return
+    set nheads [llength $dheads]
+    if {$nheads < 2} {
+	catch {
+	    set nheads [llength $idheads($dheads)]
+	}
+	if {$nheads < 2} {
+	    # the stuff on this branch isn't on any other branch that we know about
+	    if {![confirm_popup "The commits on branch $head aren't on any other\
+			    branch.\nReally delete branch $head?"]} return
+	}
     }
     nowbusy rmbranch
     update
--
1.5.3.rc4.85.g3ba6
Next: Paul Mackerras
Message 1 of 3 in “gitk: Fix warning when removing a branch (take 2)”
  1. gitk: Fix warning when removing a branch (take 2)Mark Levedahl, Aug 16, 2007
  2. Paul MackerrasAug 16, 2007
  3. Mark LevedahlAug 16, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.