Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2022-09-19

Re: [PATCH] sequencer: avoid dropping fixup commit that targets self via commit-ish

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-19 01:11:36

Johannes Altmanninger [off-list ref] writes:
First, OID matches are given precedence over subject prefix
matches.  Second, instead of prefix-matching OIDs, we use
lookup_commit_reference_by_name().  This means that if 012345 is a
branch name, we will apply the fixup commit to the tip of that branch
(if that is present in the todo list).
Good finding.

I think that both are results from imprecise conversion from the
original done carelessly.  A rewrite does not necessarily have to be
bug-to-bug equivalent, and the precedence between object names vs
subject prefix is something I think does not have to be kept the
same as the original (in other words, a user who gives a token after
"fixup" that is ambiguous between the two deserves whatever the
implementation happens to give).  But use of _by_name() that does
not limit the input to hexadecimal _is_ a problem exactly for the
reason why we have this discussion thread.  The function accepts
more than we want to accept, and anybody who reads the original
commit 68d5d03b (rebase: teach --autosquash to match on sha1 in
addition to message, 2010-11-04) and understands why we added it
wouldn't have used it.

Your solution looks somewhat surprising to me, as I would naively
have thought to fix the use of _by_name() and limit its use only
when the input token is all hexadecimal, or something.  I'd need to
think more to convince myself why this is the right solution.

Thanks.
quoted hunk
Demonstrate both behavior changes by adding two test cases for
"fixup! foo" where foo is a commit-ish that is not an OID-prefix.
Arguably, this feature is very weird.  If no one uses it we should
consider removing it.

Regardless, there is one bad edge case to fix.  Let refspec "foo" point
to a commit with the subject "fixup! foo". Since rebase --autosquash
finds the fixup target via lookup_commit_reference_by_name(), the
fixup target is the fixup commit itself. Obviously this can't work.
We proceed with the broken invariant and drop the fixup commit
entirely.

The self-fixup was only allowed because the fixup commit was already
added to the preliminary todo list, which it shouldn't be.  Rather,
we should first compute the fixup target and only then add the fixup
commit to the todo list. Make it so, avoiding this error by design,
and add a third test for this case.

Reported-by: Erik Cervin Edin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Altmanninger <redacted>
---
 sequencer.c                  |  4 ++--
 t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 484ca9aa50..777200a6dc 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -6287,8 +6287,6 @@ int todo_list_rearrange_squash(struct todo_list *todo_list)
 			return error(_("the script was already rearranged."));
 		}
 
-		*commit_todo_item_at(&commit_todo, item->commit) = item;
-
 		parse_commit(item->commit);
 		commit_buffer = logmsg_reencode(item->commit, NULL, "UTF-8");
 		find_commit_subject(commit_buffer, &subject);
@@ -6355,6 +6353,8 @@ int todo_list_rearrange_squash(struct todo_list *todo_list)
 					strhash(entry->subject));
 			hashmap_put(&subject2item, &entry->entry);
 		}
+
+		*commit_todo_item_at(&commit_todo, item->commit) = item;
 	}
 
 	if (rearranged) {
diff --git a/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh b/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
index 78c27496d6..879e628512 100755
--- a/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
+++ b/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
@@ -232,6 +232,50 @@ test_expect_success 'auto squash that matches longer sha1' '
 	test_line_count = 1 actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'auto squash that matches regex' '
+	git reset --hard base &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "hay needle hay" &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "fixup! :/[n]eedle" &&
+	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="cat >tmp" git rebase --autosquash -i HEAD^^ &&
+	sed -ne "/^[^#]/{s/[0-9a-f]\{7,\}/HASH/g;p}" tmp >actual &&
+	cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+	pick HASH hay needle hay # empty
+	fixup HASH fixup! :/[n]eedle # empty
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'auto squash of fixup commit that matches branch name' '
+	git reset --hard base &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "wip commit (just a prefix match so overshadowed by branch)" &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "tip of wip" &&
+	git branch wip &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "unrelated commit" &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "fixup! wip" &&
+	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="cat >tmp" git rebase --autosquash -i HEAD^^^^ &&
+	sed -ne "/^[^#]/{s/[0-9a-f]\{7,\}/HASH/g;p}" tmp >actual &&
+	cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+	pick HASH wip commit (just a prefix match so overshadowed by branch) # empty
+	pick HASH tip of wip # empty
+	fixup HASH fixup! wip # empty
+	pick HASH unrelated commit # empty
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'auto squash of fixup commit that matches branch name which points back to fixup commit' '
+	git reset --hard base &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m "fixup! self-cycle" &&
+	git branch self-cycle &&
+	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="cat >tmp" git rebase --autosquash -i HEAD^^ &&
+	sed -ne "/^[^#]/{s/[0-9a-f]\{7,\}/HASH/g;p}" tmp >actual &&
+	cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+	pick HASH second commit
+	pick HASH fixup! self-cycle # empty
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_auto_commit_flags () {
 	git reset --hard base &&
 	echo 1 >file1 &&
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