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[PATCH 1/4] Add test for showing discarded changes with diff --cc

From
Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Date
Apr 2, 2015, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID
<1428006853-21212-2-git-send-email-max@max630.net>
In-Reply-To
<1428006853-21212-1-git-send-email-max@max630.net>

If a hunk has been changed in both branches and conflict resolution fully takes one of branches, discarding all changes that are in the other, then the merge is not shown in 3-way diff which git uses by default.

The advice is to use flag --cc and and explicitly add the mergebase was given in $gmane/191557. It was discovered though that it does not always work. If the whole file has not changed at all compared to one of branches then no difference is shown for this file.

This looks inconsistent and for particular scenario of viewing discarded changes is undesirable.

Add the test which demonstrates the issue.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
---
 t/t4059-diff-merge-with-base.sh | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 t/t4059-diff-merge-with-base.sh
diff --git a/t/t4059-diff-merge-with-base.sh b/t/t4059-diff-merge-with-base.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e650a33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4059-diff-merge-with-base.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Diff aware of merge base'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	mkdir short &&
+	mkdir long &&
+	for fn in win1 win2 merge delete base only1 only2; do
+		test_seq 3 >short/$fn
+		git add short/$fn &&
+		test_seq 11 >long/$fn &&
+		git add long/$fn
+	done &&
+	git commit -m mergebase &&
+	git branch mergebase &&
+
+	for fn in win1 win2 merge delete base only1; do
+		for dir in short long; do
+			sed -e "s/^2/2change1/" -e "s/^7/7change1/" $dir/$fn >sed.new &&
+			mv sed.new $dir/$fn &&
+			git add $dir/$fn
+		done
+	done &&
+	sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" long/only2 >sed.new &&
+	mv sed.new long/only2 &&
+	git add long/only2 &&
+	git commit -m branch1 &&
+	git branch branch1 &&
+
+	git reset --hard mergebase &&
+	for fn in win1 win2 merge delete base only2; do
+		for dir in short long; do
+			sed -e "s/^2/2change2/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" $dir/$fn >sed.new &&
+			mv sed.new $dir/$fn &&
+			git add $dir/$fn
+		done
+	done &&
+	sed -e "s/^11/11change2/" long/only1 >sed.new &&
+	mv sed.new long/only1 &&
+	git add long/only1 &&
+	git commit -m branch2 &&
+	git branch branch2 &&
+
+	test_must_fail git merge branch1 &&
+	git checkout mergebase -- . &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" >long/base &&
+	git add long/base &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "s/^2/2change1/" >long/win1 &&
+	git add long/win1 &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "s/^2/2change2/" >long/win2 &&
+	git add long/win2 &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "s/^2/2merged/" >long/merge &&
+	git add long/merge &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "/^2/d" >long/delete &&
+	git add long/delete &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "s/^2/2change1/" >long/only1 &&
+	git add long/only1 &&
+	test_seq 11 | sed -e "s/^7/7change1/" -e "s/^11/11change2/" -e "s/^2/2change2/" >long/only2 &&
+	git add long/only2 &&
+	test_seq 3 >short/base &&
+	git add short/base &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "s/^2/2change1/" >short/win1 &&
+	git add short/win1 &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "s/^2/2change2/" >short/win2 &&
+	git add short/win2 &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "s/^2/2merged/" >short/merge &&
+	git add short/merge &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "/^2/d" >short/delete &&
+	git add short/delete &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "s/^2/2change1/" >short/only1 &&
+	git add short/only1 &&
+	test_seq 3 | sed -e "s/^2/2change2/" >short/only2 &&
+	git add short/only2 &&
+	git commit -m merge &&
+	git branch merge
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with mergebase shows discarded change from parent 2 in merged file' '
+	git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- long/win1 >actual &&
+	test -s actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with mergebase shows discarded change from parent 1 in merged file' '
+	git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- long/win2 >actual &&
+	test -s actual
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'diff with mergebase shows fully discarded file from parent 2' '
+	git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- short/win1 >actual &&
+	test -s actual
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'diff with mergebase shows fully discarded file from parent 1' '
+	git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- short/win2 >actual &&
+	test -s actual
+'
+
+test_done
-- 
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  2. 1/4 Add test for showing discarded changes with diff --ccMax Kirillov, Apr 2, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2015
  4. Max KirillovApr 3, 2015
  5. 2/4 combine-diff.c: refactor: extract insert_path()Max Kirillov, Apr 2, 2015
  6. 3/4 diff --cc: relax too strict paths pickingMax Kirillov, Apr 2, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2015
  8. 4/4 t4059: rewrite to be adaptive to hunk filteringMax Kirillov, Apr 2, 2015
  9. Jeff KingApr 2, 2015
  10. Max KirillovApr 3, 2015
  11. 0/4 diff --cc: relax path filteringMax Kirillov, Apr 3, 2015
  12. 1/4 t4059: test 'diff --cc' with a change from only few parentsMax Kirillov, Apr 3, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2015
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2015
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2015
  16. Max KirillovApr 12, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2015
  18. Max KirillovApr 14, 2015
  19. combine-diff.c: make intersect_paths() behave like hunk filteringMax Kirillov, Apr 14, 2015
  20. 2/4 combine-diff.c: refactor: extract insert_path()Max Kirillov, Apr 3, 2015
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2015
  22. 3/4 diff --cc: relax too strict paths pickingMax Kirillov, Apr 3, 2015
  23. 4/4 t4059: rewrite to be adaptive to hunk filteringMax Kirillov, Apr 3, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2015
  25. Max KirillovApr 14, 2015

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