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[PATCH 3/8] fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labels

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2019, 01:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20190925014005.17056-4-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20190925014005.17056-1-newren@gmail.com>

Mark identifiers are used in fast-export and fast-import to provide a label to refer to earlier content. Blobs are given labels because they need to be referenced in the commits where they first appear with a given filename, and commits are given labels because they can be the parents of other commits. Tags were never given labels, probably because they were viewed as unnecessary, but that presents two problems:

   1. It leaves us without a way of referring to previous tags if we
      want to create a tag of a tag (or higher nestings).
   2. It leaves us with no way of recording that a tag has already been
      imported when using --export-marks and --import-marks.
Fix these problems by allowing an optional mark label for tags.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt |  1 +
 fast-import.c                     |  3 ++-
 t/t9300-fast-import.sh            | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 0bb276269e..4977869465 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@ lightweight (non-annotated) tags see the `reset` command below.
 
 ....
 	'tag' SP <name> LF
+	mark?
 	'from' SP <commit-ish> LF
 	original-oid?
 	'tagger' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index dab905d667..0271d81d0d 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -2713,6 +2713,7 @@ static void parse_new_tag(const char *arg)
 		first_tag = t;
 	last_tag = t;
 	read_next_command();
+	parse_mark();
 
 	/* from ... */
 	if (!skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "from ", &from))
@@ -2769,7 +2770,7 @@ static void parse_new_tag(const char *arg)
 	strbuf_addbuf(&new_data, &msg);
 	free(tagger);
 
-	if (store_object(OBJ_TAG, &new_data, NULL, &t->oid, 0))
+	if (store_object(OBJ_TAG, &new_data, NULL, &t->oid, next_mark))
 		t->pack_id = MAX_PACK_ID;
 	else
 		t->pack_id = pack_id;
diff --git a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
index 74bc41333b..3ad2b2f1ba 100755
--- a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
+++ b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
@@ -94,6 +94,23 @@ test_expect_success 'A: create pack from stdin' '
 	reset refs/tags/to-be-deleted
 	from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 
+	tag nested
+	mark :6
+	from :4
+	data <<EOF
+	Tag of our lovely commit
+	EOF
+
+	reset refs/tags/nested
+	from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+
+	tag nested
+	mark :7
+	from :6
+	data <<EOF
+	Tag of tag of our lovely commit
+	EOF
+
 	INPUT_END
 	git fast-import --export-marks=marks.out <input &&
 	git whatchanged master
@@ -176,6 +193,8 @@ test_expect_success 'A: verify marks output' '
 	:3 $(git rev-parse --verify master:file3)
 	:4 $(git rev-parse --verify master:file4)
 	:5 $(git rev-parse --verify master^0)
+	:6 $(git cat-file tag nested | grep object | cut -d" " -f 2)
+	:7 $(git rev-parse --verify nested)
 	EOF
 	test_cmp expect marks.out
 '
-- 
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Message 4 of 33 in “fast export/import: handle nested tags, improve incremental exports”
  1. 0/8 fast export/import: handle nested tags, improve incremental exportsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  2. 1/8 fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing elseElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  3. 2/8 fast-import: fix handling of deleted tagsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  4. 3/8 fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labelsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  5. 4/8 fast-import: add support for new 'alias' commandElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  6. 6/8 fast-export: allow user to request tags be marked with --mark-tagsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  7. 5/8 fast-export: add support for --import-marks-if-existsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  8. 7/8 t9350: add tests for tags of things other than a commitElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  9. 8/8 fast-export: handle nested tagsElijah Newren, Sep 25, 2019
  10. 0/8 fast export/import: handle nested tags, improve incremental exportsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  11. 1/8 fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing elseElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  12. 2/8 fast-import: fix handling of deleted tagsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  13. René ScharfeOct 3, 2019
  14. 3/8 fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labelsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  15. 4/8 fast-import: add support for new 'alias' commandElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  16. 5/8 fast-export: add support for --import-marks-if-existsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  17. 6/8 fast-export: allow user to request tags be marked with --mark-tagsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  18. 7/8 t9350: add tests for tags of things other than a commitElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  19. 8/8 fast-export: handle nested tagsElijah Newren, Sep 30, 2019
  20. Elijah NewrenOct 2, 2019
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 2, 2019
  22. Elijah NewrenOct 2, 2019
  23. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2019
  24. 0/8 fast export/import: handle nested tags, improve incremental exportsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  25. 1/8 fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing elseElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  26. 2/8 fast-import: fix handling of deleted tagsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  27. 3/8 fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labelsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  28. 4/8 fast-import: add support for new 'alias' commandElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  29. 5/8 fast-export: add support for --import-marks-if-existsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  30. 7/8 t9350: add tests for tags of things other than a commitElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  31. 8/8 fast-export: handle nested tagsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  32. 6/8 fast-export: allow user to request tags be marked with --mark-tagsElijah Newren, Oct 3, 2019
  33. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2019

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