With diff.renames = copies, a rebase with a file move will fail with
the following error:
fatal: mode change for <file>, which is not in current HEAD
Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
Patch failed at 0001.
The bug is that git rebase does not disable diff.renames when it runs
format-patch internally to feed into "am -3". The fix is simply to
include a --no-renames argument to format-patch to override any local
diff.renames setting.
Fix by Junio C Hamano. Test case by David D. Kilzer.
Signed-off-by: David D. Kilzer <redacted>
---
git-rebase.sh | 2 +-
t/t3400-rebase.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 6ec155c..0718caf 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ fi
if test -z "$do_merge"
then
git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index --ignore-if-in-upstream \
- $root_flag "$revisions" |
+ --no-renames $root_flag "$revisions" |
git am $git_am_opt --rebasing --resolvemsg="$RESOLVEMSG" &&
move_to_original_branch
ret=$?
diff --git a/t/t3400-rebase.sh b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
index 4e6a44b..6d2ec91 100755
--- a/t/t3400-rebase.sh
+++ b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
@@ -155,4 +155,21 @@ test_expect_success 'Rebase a commit that sprinkles CRs in' '
git diff --exit-code file-with-cr:CR HEAD:CR
'
+test_expect_success 'rebase a single file move with diff.renames = copies' '
+ git config diff.renames copies &&
+ git checkout master &&
+ echo 1 > Y &&
+ git add Y &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m "prepare file move" &&
+ git checkout -b filemove HEAD^ &&
+ echo 1 > Y &&
+ git add Y &&
+ mkdir D &&
+ git mv A D/A &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m filemove &&
+ GIT_TRACE=1 git rebase master
+'
+
test_done
--
1.7.1