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[PATCH 1/2] rebase: add a --rebase-merges=drop option

From
Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2023, 03:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20230220033224.10400-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>

Name the new option "drop" intead of "no" or "false" to avoid confusion in the future if --rebase-merges grows the ability to truly "rebase" merge commits by reusing the conflict resolution information from the original merge commit, and we want to add an option to ignore the conflict resolution information.

This option can be used to countermand a previous --rebase-merges option.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt |  2 +-
 builtin/rebase.c             |  2 +-
 t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh     | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 9a295bcee4..92e90f96aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
 See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
 
 -r::
---rebase-merges[=(rebase-cousins|no-rebase-cousins)]::
+--rebase-merges[=(rebase-cousins|no-rebase-cousins|drop)]::
 	By default, a rebase will simply drop merge commits from the todo
 	list, and put the rebased commits into a single, linear branch.
 	With `--rebase-merges`, the rebase will instead try to preserve
diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c
index 6635f10d52..96c0474379 100644
--- a/builtin/rebase.c
+++ b/builtin/rebase.c
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (options.exec.nr)
 		imply_merge(&options, "--exec");
 
-	if (rebase_merges) {
+	if (rebase_merges && strcmp("drop", rebase_merges)) {
 		if (!*rebase_merges)
 			; /* default mode; do nothing */
 		else if (!strcmp("rebase-cousins", rebase_merges))
diff --git a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
index fa2a06c19f..861c8405f2 100755
--- a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
+++ b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
@@ -250,6 +250,36 @@ test_expect_success 'with a branch tip that was cherry-picked already' '
 	EOF
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'do not rebase merges unless asked' '
+	git checkout -b rebase-merges-default E &&
+	before="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges C &&
+	test_cmp_rev HEAD $before &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase C &&
+	test_cmp_graph C.. <<-\EOF
+	* B
+	* D
+	o C
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'do not rebase merges when asked to drop them' '
+	git checkout -b rebase-merges-drop E &&
+	before="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges C &&
+	test_cmp_rev HEAD $before &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges=drop C &&
+	test_cmp_graph C.. <<-\EOF
+	* B
+	* D
+	o C
+	EOF
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'do not rebase cousins unless asked for' '
 	git checkout -b cousins main &&
 	before="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" &&
-- 
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