Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option

The git-cherry-pick --allow-empty command by default only preserves empty
commits that were originally empty, i.e only those commits for which
<commit>^{tree} and <commit>^^{tree} are equal.  By default commits which are
non-empty, but were made empty by the inclusion of a prior commit on the current
history are filtered out.  This option allows us to override that behavior and
include redundant commits as empty commits in the change history.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
---
 Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt |   12 +++++-
 builtin/revert.c                  |    8 +++-
 sequencer.c                       |   91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 sequencer.h                       |    1 +
 4 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 730237a..f96b8c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -110,7 +110,17 @@ effect to your index in a row.
 	behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
 	in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
 	commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
-	even without this option.
+	even without this option.  Note also, that use of this option only
+	keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. where for commit C
+	C^{tree} and C^^{tree} are equal).  Commits which are made empty due to

diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c
index 06b00e6..4f0d979 100644
--- a/builtin/revert.c
+++ b/builtin/revert.c

@@ -115,13 +115,15 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct replay_opts *opts)
 		OPT_END(),
 		OPT_END(),
 		OPT_END(),
+		OPT_END(),
 	};
 
 	if (opts->action == REPLAY_PICK) {
 		struct option cp_extra[] = {
 			OPT_BOOLEAN('x', NULL, &opts->record_origin, "append commit name"),
 			OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "ff", &opts->allow_ff, "allow fast-forward"),
-			OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "allow-empty", &opts->allow_empty, "preserve empty commits"),
+			OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "allow-empty", &opts->allow_empty, "preserve initially empty commits"),
+			OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "keep-redundant-commits", &opts->keep_if_made_empty, "keep redundant, empty commits"),
 			OPT_END(),
 		};
 		if (parse_options_concat(options, ARRAY_SIZE(options), cp_extra))

@@ -139,6 +141,10 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct replay_opts *opts)
 				"--abort", rollback,
 				NULL);
 
+	/* keep_if_made_empty implies allow_empty */
+	if (opts->keep_if_made_empty)
+		opts->allow_empty = 1;
+
 	/* Set the subcommand */
 	if (remove_state)
 		opts->subcommand = REPLAY_REMOVE_STATE;

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 71929ba..442f364 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "rerere.h"
 #include "merge-recursive.h"
 #include "refs.h"
+#include "argv-array.h"
 
 #define GIT_REFLOG_ACTION "GIT_REFLOG_ACTION"
 

@@ -258,26 +259,85 @@ static int do_recursive_merge(struct commit *base, struct commit *next,
  * If we are revert, or if our cherry-pick results in a hand merge,
  * we had better say that the current user is responsible for that.
  */
-static int run_git_commit(const char *defmsg, struct replay_opts *opts)
+int run_git_commit(const char *defmsg, struct replay_opts *opts, int empty)
 {
-	/* 7 is max possible length of our args array including NULL */
-	const char *args[7];
-	int i = 0;
+	struct argv_array array;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (!empty && !opts->keep_if_made_empty) {
+		unsigned char head_sha1[20];
+		struct commit *head_commit;
+		int need_free = 0;
+
+		resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", head_sha1, 1, NULL);
+		head_commit = lookup_commit(head_sha1);