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[PATCH] revision walker: --cherry-pick is a limited operation

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 15, 2007, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151838270.28586@racer.site>

We used to rely on the fact that cherry-pick would trigger the code path to set limited = 1 in handle_commit(), when an uninteresting commit was encountered.

However, when cherry picking between two independent branches, i.e. when there are no merge bases, and there is only linear development (which can happen when you cvsimport a fork of a project), no uninteresting commit will be encountered.

So set limited = 1 when --cherry-pick was asked for.
Noticed by Martin Bähr.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 revision.c                           |    1 +
 t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh |   14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index c193c3e..33d092c 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
 			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--cherry-pick")) {
 				revs->cherry_pick = 1;
+				revs->limited = 1;
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--objects")) {
diff --git a/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh b/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
index 3faeae6..4b8611c 100755
--- a/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
+++ b/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
@@ -40,4 +40,18 @@ test_expect_success '--cherry-pick bar does not come up empty' '
 	! test -z "$(git rev-list --left-right --cherry-pick B...C -- bar)"
 '
 
+test_expect_success '--cherry-pick with independent, but identical branches' '
+	git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/independent &&
+	rm .git/index &&
+	echo Hallo > foo &&
+	git add foo &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m "independent" &&
+	echo Bello > foo &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m "independent, too" foo &&
+	test -z "$(git rev-list --left-right --cherry-pick \
+		HEAD...master -- foo)"
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.5.3.1.949.g98c3
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  1. revision walker: --cherry-pick is a limited operationJohannes Schindelin, Sep 15, 2007

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