[PATCH v4] contrib git-resurrect: find traces of a branch name and resurrect it
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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- Feb 4, 2009, 10:04 UTC
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Add a tool 'git-resurrect.sh <branch>' that tries to find traces of the <branch> in the HEAD reflog and, optionally, all merge commits in the repository. It can then resurrect the branch, pointing it at the most recent of all candidate commits found.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> ---
Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Do you mean something like this?
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> sed -n -e "/^$_x40 $_x40 \($_x40\) Merge .*/ {
> s//\1/p
> q
> }"Yep, precisely. Thanks! This indeed gives it a nice speed boost if all you want is a topic "resurrection" from pu.
contrib/git-resurrect.sh | 180 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100755 contrib/git-resurrect.sh
diff --git a/contrib/git-resurrect.sh b/contrib/git-resurrect.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..c364dda --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/git-resurrect.sh @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +USAGE="[-a] [-r] [-m] [-t] [-n] [-b <newname>] <name>" +LONG_USAGE="git-resurrect attempts to find traces of a branch tip +called <name>, and tries to resurrect it. Currently, the reflog is +searched for checkout messages, and with -r also merge messages. With +-m and -t, the history of all refs is scanned for Merge <name> into +other/Merge <other> into <name> (respectively) commit subjects, which +is rather slow but allows you to resurrect other people's topic +branches." + +OPTIONS_SPEC="\ +git resurrect $USAGE +-- +b,branch= save branch as <newname> instead of <name> +a,all same as -l -r -m -t +k,keep-going full rev-list scan (instead of first match) +l,reflog scan reflog for checkouts (enabled by default) +r,reflog-merges scan for merges recorded in reflog +m,merges scan for merges into other branches (slow) +t,merge-targets scan for merges of other branches into <name> +n,dry-run don't recreate the branch" + +. git-sh-setup + +search_reflog () { + sed -ne 's~^\([^ ]*\) .*\tcheckout: moving from '"$1"' .*~\1~p' \ + < "$GIT_DIR"/logs/HEAD +} + +search_reflog_merges () { + git rev-parse $( + sed -ne 's~^[^ ]* \([^ ]*\) .*\tmerge '"$1"':.*~\1^2~p' \ + < "$GIT_DIR"/logs/HEAD + ) +} + +_x40="[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]" +_x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40" + +search_merges () { + git rev-list --all --grep="Merge branch '$1'" \ + --pretty=tformat:"%P %s" | + sed -ne "/^$_x40 \($_x40\) Merge .*/ {s//\1/p;$early_exit}" +} + +search_merge_targets () { + git rev-list --all --grep="Merge branch '[^']*' into $branch\$" \ + --pretty=tformat:"%H %s" --all | + sed -ne "/^\($_x40\) Merge .*/ {s//\1/p;$early_exit} " +} + +dry_run= +early_exit=q +scan_reflog=t +scan_reflog_merges= +scan_merges= +scan_merge_targets= +new_name= + +while test "$#" != 0; do + case "$1" in + -b|--branch) + shift + new_name="$1" + ;; + -n|--dry-run) + dry_run=t + ;; + --no-dry-run) + dry_run= + ;; + -k|--keep-going) + early_exit= + ;; + --no-keep-going) + early_exit=q + ;; + -m|--merges) + scan_merges=t + ;; + --no-merges) + scan_merges= + ;; + -l|--reflog) + scan_reflog=t + ;; + --no-reflog) + scan_reflog= + ;; + -r|--reflog_merges) + scan_reflog_merges=t + ;; + --no-reflog_merges) + scan_reflog_merges= + ;; + -t|--merge-targets) + scan_merge_targets=t + ;; + --no-merge-targets) + scan_merge_targets= + ;; + -a|--all) + scan_reflog=t + scan_reflog_merges=t + scan_merges=t + scan_merge_targets=t + ;; + --) + shift + break + ;; + *) + usage + ;; + esac + shift +done + +test "$#" = 1 || usage + +all_strategies="$scan_reflog$scan_reflog_merges$scan_merges$scan_merge_targets" +if test -z "$all_strategies"; then + die "must enable at least one of -lrmt" +fi + +branch="$1" +test -z "$new_name" && new_name="$branch" + +if test ! -z "$scan_reflog"; then + if test -r "$GIT_DIR"/logs/HEAD; then + candidates="$(search_reflog $branch)" + else + die 'reflog scanning requested, but' \ + '$GIT_DIR/logs/HEAD not readable' + fi +fi +if test ! -z "$scan_reflog_merges"; then + if test -r "$GIT_DIR"/logs/HEAD; then + candidates="$candidates $(search_reflog_merges $branch)" + else + die 'reflog scanning requested, but' \ + '$GIT_DIR/logs/HEAD not readable' + fi +fi +if test ! -z "$scan_merges"; then + candidates="$candidates $(search_merges $branch)" +fi +if test ! -z "$scan_merge_targets"; then + candidates="$candidates $(search_merge_targets $branch)" +fi + +candidates="$(git rev-parse $candidates | sort -u)" + +if test -z "$candidates"; then + hint= + test "z$all_strategies" != "ztttt" \ + && hint=" (maybe try again with -a)" + die "no candidates for $branch found$hint" +fi + +echo "** Candidates for $branch **" +for cmt in $candidates; do + git --no-pager log --pretty=tformat:"%ct:%h [%cr] %s" --abbrev-commit -1 $cmt +done \ +| sort -n | cut -d: -f2- + +newest="$(git rev-list -1 $candidates)" +if test ! -z "$dry_run"; then + printf "** Most recent: " + git --no-pager log -1 --pretty=tformat:"%h %s" $newest +elif ! git rev-parse --verify --quiet $new_name >/dev/null; then + printf "** Restoring $new_name to " + git --no-pager log -1 --pretty=tformat:"%h %s" $newest + git branch $new_name $newest +else + printf "Most recent: " + git --no-pager log -1 --pretty=tformat:"%h %s" $newest + echo "** $new_name already exists, doing nothing" +fi
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