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Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] format-patch: introduce --base=auto option

From
Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Date
Mar 24, 2016, 04:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20160324041925.GB26582@yexl-desktop>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:25:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> writes:
>
>> +
>> +	diff_setup(&diffopt);
>> +	DIFF_OPT_SET(&diffopt, RECURSIVE);
>> +	diff_setup_done(&diffopt);
>
>It is annoying that you moved "diff" stuff here (if it can be
>initialized once at the beginning and then reused over and over,
>it should have been done here from the beginning at PATCH 2/4).
My bad, I will put "diff" stuff at the beginning at PATCH 2/4.
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>> +	if (!strcmp(base_commit, "auto")) {
>> +		curr_branch = branch_get(NULL);
>> +		upstream = branch_get_upstream(curr_branch, NULL);
>> +		if (upstream) {
>> +			if (get_sha1(upstream, sha1))
>> +				die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), upstream);
>> +			base = lookup_commit_or_die(sha1, "upstream base");
>> +			oidcpy(&bases->base_commit, &base->object.oid);
>> +		} else {
>> +			commit_patch_id(prerequisite_head, &diffopt, sha1);
>> +			oidcpy(&bases->parent_commit, &prerequisite_head->object.oid);
>> +			hashcpy(bases->parent_patch_id.hash, sha1);
>> +			return;
>
>What happens if you did this sequence?
>
>	$ git fetch origin
>        $ git checkout -b fork origin/master
>        $ git fetch origin
>        $ git format-patch --base=auto origin..
>
>You grab the updated origin/master as base and use it here, no?
>At that point the topology would look like:
>
>          1---2---3 updated upstream
>         /
>	0---X---Y---Z---A---B---C
>        ^
>        old upstream
>
>so you are basing your worn on "0" (old upstream) but setting base
>to "3"
>
>Wouldn't that trigger "base must be an ancestor of Z" check you had
>in [PATCH 2/4]?

Yes, this is flawed, I will follow your below suggestion to compute the merge base as the base commit through upstream and specified range.

>
>I also do not see the point of showing "parent id" which as far as I
>can see is just a random commit object name and show different
>output that is not even described what it is.  It would be better to

Here is our consideration: There is high chance that branch_get_upstream will retrun NULL(thus we are not able to get exact base commit), since developers may checkout branch from a local branch or a commit and haven't set "--set-upstream-to" to track a remote branch, in this case, we want to provide likely useful info(here is parent commit id and patch id), based on it, 0day robot still have good chance to find the suitable base. Otherwise, I'm afraid this annotation system won't work effectively in long run.

Thanks, Xiaolong.

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> * find the upstream (i.e. 3 in the picture) and then with our range
>   (i.e. A B and C) compute the merge base (i.e. you would find 0)
>   and use it as base;
>
> * if there is no upstream, error out and tell the user that there
>   is no upstream.  The user is intelligent enough and knows what
>   commit the base should be.
>
>I suspect, but I didn't think things through.
>
>
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Message 8 of 12 in “Add an option to git-format-patch to record base tree info”
  1. 0/4 Add an option to git-format-patch to record base tree infoXiaolong Ye, Mar 23, 2016
  2. 1/4 patch-ids: make commit_patch_id() a public helper functionXiaolong Ye, Mar 23, 2016
  3. 2/4 format-patch: add '--base' option to record base tree infoXiaolong Ye, Mar 23, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2016
  5. Ye XiaolongMar 24, 2016
  6. 3/4 format-patch: introduce --base=auto optionXiaolong Ye, Mar 23, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2016
  8. Ye XiaolongMar 24, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2016
  10. Ye XiaolongApr 1, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2016
  12. 4/4 format-patch: introduce format.base configurationXiaolong Ye, Mar 23, 2016

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