[PATCH v3 8/8] pull: fix handling of multiple heads

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Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

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Jul 22, 2021, 05:04 UTC

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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/pull.c               | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index 2f1d1f4037d..b311ea6b9df 100644
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -913,12 +913,18 @@ static int run_rebase(const struct object_id *newbase,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int get_can_ff(struct object_id *orig_head, struct object_id *orig_merge_head)
+static int get_can_ff(struct object_id *orig_head,
+		      struct oid_array *merge_heads)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct commit_list *list = NULL;
 	struct commit *merge_head, *head;
+	struct object_id *orig_merge_head;
 
+	if (merge_heads->nr > 1)
+		return 0;
+
+	orig_merge_head = &merge_heads->oid[0];
 	head = lookup_commit_reference(the_repository, orig_head);
 	commit_list_insert(head, &list);
 	merge_head = lookup_commit_reference(the_repository, orig_merge_head);
@@ -1057,10 +1063,14 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			die(_("Cannot merge multiple branches into empty head."));
 		return pull_into_void(merge_heads.oid, &curr_head);
 	}
-	if (opt_rebase && merge_heads.nr > 1)
-		die(_("Cannot rebase onto multiple branches."));
+	if (merge_heads.nr > 1) {
+		if (opt_rebase)
+			die(_("Cannot rebase onto multiple branches."));
+		if (opt_ff && !strcmp(opt_ff, "--ff-only"))
+			die(_("Cannot fast-forward to multiple branches."));
+	}
 
-	can_ff = get_can_ff(&orig_head, &merge_heads.oid[0]);
+	can_ff = get_can_ff(&orig_head, &merge_heads);
 
 	/* ff-only takes precedence over rebase */
 	if (opt_ff && !strcmp(opt_ff, "--ff-only")) {
diff --git a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
index 742ed3981c7..1f652f433ee 100755
--- a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
+++ b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ test_expect_success 'Multiple heads warns about inability to fast forward' '
 	test_i18ngrep "You have divergent branches" err
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'Multiple can never be fast forwarded' '
+test_expect_success 'Multiple can never be fast forwarded' '
 	git reset --hard c0 &&
 	test_must_fail git -c pull.ff=only pull . c1 c2 c3 2>err &&
 	test_i18ngrep ! "You have divergent branches" err &&

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