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Re: [JGIT PATCH 8/8] Define a basic merge API, and a two-way tree merge strategy

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jan 19, 2009, 17:51 UTC
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<20090119175154.GD14053@spearce.org>
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Tomi Pakarinen <tomi.pakarinen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > testTrivialTwoWay_disjointhistories() failed because merge strategy
> > didn't handle missing base
> > version. Am'i right?
> 
> If that isn't coming out right then perhaps tw.idEqual() is busted
Yup, that's what it is, idEqual is busted.
The definition of TreeWalk.idEqual is:
	public boolean idEqual(final int nthA, final int nthB) {
		final AbstractTreeIterator ch = currentHead;
		final AbstractTreeIterator a = trees[nthA];
		final AbstractTreeIterator b = trees[nthB];
		return a.matches == ch && b.matches == ch && a.idEqual(b);
	}

The problem is this method always returns false if the name isn't defined in either path. I think this is the definition we want instead:

		if (a.matches == ch && b.matches == ch)
			return a.idEqual(b);
		if (a.matches != ch && b.matches != ch) {
			// If neither tree matches the current path node then neither
			// tree has this entry. In such case the ObjectId is zero(),
			// and zero() is always equal to zero().
			//
			return true;
		}
		return false;
Patch to follow.
-- 
Shawn.
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Message 16 of 16 in “Crude merge support”
  1. 0/8 Crude merge supportShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  2. 1/8 Expose the raw path for the current entry of a TreeWalkShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  3. 2/8 Expose DirCacheEntry.getFileMode as a utility functionShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  4. 3/8 Add writeTree support to DirCacheShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  5. 4/8 Allow a DirCache to be created with no backing store fileShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  6. 5/8 Allow CanonicalTreeParsers to be created with a UTF-8 path prefixShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  7. 6/8 Recursively load an entire tree into a DirCacheBuilderShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  8. 7/8 Allow DirCacheEntry instances to be created with stage > 0Shawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  9. 8/8 Define a basic merge API, and a two-way tree merge strategyShawn O. Pearce, Oct 13, 2008
  10. Robin RosenbergOct 23, 2008
  11. Robin RosenbergJan 15, 2009
  12. Shawn O. PearceJan 15, 2009
  13. Tomi PakarinenJan 17, 2009
  14. Robin RosenbergJan 18, 2009
  15. Shawn O. PearceJan 19, 2009
  16. Shawn O. PearceJan 19, 2009

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