In the event of an odd merge, we may find ourselves TREESAME to
apparently redundant parents. Prevent simplify_merges() from removing
every TREESAME parent - in the event of such a merge it's useful to see
where we came actually from came.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <redacted>
---
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 3 ++-
revision.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 380db48..0832004 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ history according to the following rules:
+
* Replace each parent `P` of `C'` with its simplification `P'`. In
the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents, and
- remove duplicates.
+ remove duplicates, but take care to never drop all parents that
+ we are TREESAME to.
+
* If after this parent rewriting, `C'` is a root or merge commit (has
zero or >1 parents), a boundary commit, or !TREESAME, it remains.
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 176eb7b..4e27c9a 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -2106,8 +2106,32 @@ static int remove_marked_parents(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
{
struct treesame_state *ts = lookup_decoration(&revs->treesame, &commit->object);
struct commit_list **pp, *p;
+ struct commit *su = NULL, *sm = NULL;
int n, removed = 0;
+ /* Prescan - look for both marked and unmarked TREESAME parents */
+ for (p = commit->parents, n = 0; p; p = p->next, n++) {
+ if (ts->treesame[n]) {
+ if (p->item->object.flags & TMP_MARK) {
+ if (!sm) sm = p->item;
+ }
+ else {
+ if (!su) {
+ su = p->item;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* If we are TREESAME to a marked-for-deletion parent, but not to any
+ * unmarked parents, unmark the first TREESAME parent. We don't want
+ * to remove our "real" parent in the event of an "-s ours" type
+ * merge.
+ */
+ if (!su && sm)
+ sm->object.flags &= ~TMP_MARK;
+
pp = &commit->parents;
n = 0;
while ((p = *pp) != NULL) {--
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