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[PATCH] name-rev: Fix tag lookup on repository with mixed types of tags

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orgads@gmail.com <orgads@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 22, 2017, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20170622195245.11252-1-orgads@gmail.com>
From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>

Commit 7550424804 (name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name) introduced a bug in name-rev.

If a repository has both annotated and non-annotated tags, annotated tag will always win, even if it was created decades after the commit.

Consider a repository that always used non-annotated tags, and at some point started using annotated tags - name-rev --tags will return the first annotated tags for all the old commits (in our repository it is followed by ~5067 for one commit, or by ~120^2~21^2~88^2~87 for another...). This is obviously not what the user expects.

The taggerdate should only be matched if *both tags* have it.
---
 builtin/name-rev.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c
index 92a5d8a5d2..8f77023482 100644
--- a/builtin/name-rev.c
+++ b/builtin/name-rev.c
@@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
 		commit->util = name;
 		goto copy_data;
 	} else if (name->taggerdate > taggerdate ||
-			(name->taggerdate == taggerdate &&
+			((taggerdate == ULONG_MAX || name->taggerdate == taggerdate) &&
 			 name->distance > distance)) {
 copy_data:
 		name->tip_name = tip_name;
-		name->taggerdate = taggerdate;
+		if (taggerdate != ULONG_MAX) {
+			name->taggerdate = taggerdate;
+		}
 		name->generation = generation;
 		name->distance = distance;
 	} else
-- 
2.13.1.windows.1.1.ga36e14b3aa
Next: Stefan Beller
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  1. name-rev: Fix tag lookup on repository with mixed types of tagsorgads@gmail.com, Jun 22, 2017
  2. Stefan BellerJun 22, 2017

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