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[RFC PATCH 2/7] t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEAD

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2018, 06:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20180603065810.23841-3-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20180603065810.23841-1-newren@gmail.com>

The `git merge-recursive` command allows the user to directly specify three commits to merge -- base, head, and remote. (More than three can be specified in the case of multiple merge bases.) Note that since the user is allowed to specify head, it need not match HEAD.

Virtually every test and script in the current git.git codebase calls `git merge-recursive` with head=HEAD, and likely external callers do as well, which is why this has gone unnoticed. There is one notable counter-example: git-stash.sh. However, git-stash called `git merge-recursive` with an index that matches the expected merge result, which happens to be a currently allowed exception to the "index must match head" rule, so this never triggered an error previously.

Since we would like to tighten up the "index must match head" rule, we need to make sure we are comparing to the correct head. Add a testcase that demonstrates the failure when we check the wrong HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
index f9c2f8179e..92ec552558 100755
--- a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
+++ b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
@@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ test_expect_failure 'recursive, when merge branch matches merge base' '
 	test_path_is_missing .git/MERGE_HEAD
 '
 
+test_expect_failure 'merge-recursive, when index==head but head!=HEAD' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git checkout C^0 &&
+
+	# Make index match B
+	git diff C B | git apply --cached &&
+	# Merge B & F, with B as "head"
+	git merge-recursive A -- B F > out &&
+	test_i18ngrep "Already up to date" out
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'octopus, unrelated file touched' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	git checkout B^0 &&
-- 
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  1. 0/7 merge requirement: index matches headElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  2. 3/7 merge-recursive: make sure when we say we abort that we actually abortElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  3. 2/7 t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEADElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  4. 5/7 t6044: add more testcases with staged changes before a merge is invokedElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  5. 6/7 merge-recursive: enforce rule that index matches head before mergingElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  6. 7/7 merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentationElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  7. Elijah NewrenJun 7, 2018
  8. 4/7 merge-recursive: fix assumption that head tree being merged is HEADElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  9. Ramsay JonesJun 3, 2018
  10. brian m. carlsonJun 3, 2018
  11. Ramsay JonesJun 4, 2018
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2018
  13. Elijah NewrenJun 5, 2018
  14. Elijah NewrenJun 11, 2018
  15. 1/7 t6044: verify that merges expected to abort actually abortElijah Newren, Jun 3, 2018
  16. 0/9 Fix merge issues with index not matching HEADElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  17. 1/9 read-cache.c: move index_has_changes() from merge.cElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  18. 2/9 index_has_changes(): avoid assuming operating on the_indexElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2018
  20. 3/9 t6044: verify that merges expected to abort actually abortElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  21. 4/9 t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEADElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  22. SZEDER GáborJul 10, 2018
  23. Elijah NewrenJul 11, 2018
  24. 8/9 merge-recursive: enforce rule that index matches head before mergingElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  25. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2018
  26. 5/9 merge-recursive: make sure when we say we abort that we actually abortElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  27. 6/9 merge-recursive: fix assumption that head tree being merged is HEADElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2018
  29. 7/9 t6044: add more testcases with staged changes before a merge is invokedElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018
  30. 9/9 merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentationElijah Newren, Jul 1, 2018

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