Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #05; Thu, 12)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

* lt/octopus-simplify (2012-04-12) 1 commit
 - Make 'git merge' simplify parents earlier

Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
final commit.  This was done off-list.

Heh, this seems to fix the issue I reported in [1], except... it
doesn't work for the testcase I posted :).  The problem is that this
commit makes Git 'fast-forward' to the first commit from remoteheads,
not from the reduced heads. See:


	$ git init /tmp/merge
	Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/merge/.git/
	$ cd /tmp/merge
	$ echo a>>a && git add a && git commit -m first
	[master (root-commit) 7422615] first
	 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
	 create mode 100644 a
	$ echo a>>a && git add a && git commit -m second
	[master 0ba02e5] second
	 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
	$ echo a>>a && git add a && git commit -m third
	[master 9bd11ac] third
	 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
	$ git checkout master~2
	HEAD is now at 7422615... first
	# This is OK:
	$ git merge master master~1 
	Updating 7422615..9bd11ac
	Fast-forward
	 a |    2 ++
	 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
	$ git checkout master~2
	Previous HEAD position was 9bd11ac... third
	HEAD is now at 7422615... first
	# This is not OK:
	$ git merge master~1 master 
	Updating 7422615..0ba02e5
	Fast-forward
	 a |    1 +
	 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Ths following patch fixes that.

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/190625


Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <redacted>
(if this fix need a signed-off)
---

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index f5947b9..075c99b 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c

@@ -1388,13 +1388,13 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                if (verbosity >= 0)
                        printf(_("Updating %s..%s\n"),
                                hex,
-                               find_unique_abbrev(remoteheads->item->object.sha1,
+                               find_unique_abbrev(parents->item->object.sha1,
                                DEFAULT_ABBREV));
                strbuf_addstr(&msg, "Fast-forward");
                if (have_message)
                        strbuf_addstr(&msg,
                                " (no commit created; -m option ignored)");
-               commit = remoteheads->item;
+               commit = parents->item;
                if (!commit) {
                        ret = 1;
                        goto done;