Thread (68 messages) 68 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-26

Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges

From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-24 13:53:51

Hi Alex,

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Alex Henrie wrote:
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diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c
index b68fc2fbb7..45cf445d42 100644
--- a/builtin/rebase.c
+++ b/builtin/rebase.c
@@ -771,6 +771,20 @@ static int run_specific_rebase(struct rebase_options *opts)
 	return status ? -1 : 0;
 }

+static void parse_merges_value(struct rebase_options *options, const char *value)
+{
+	if (value) {
+		if (!strcmp("no-rebase-cousins", value))
If you want to support `rebase.merges=` to imply `no-rebase-cousins`, this
would be the correct place to do it:

		if (!*value || !strcmp("no-rebase-cousins", value))
+			options->rebase_cousins = 0;
+		else if (!strcmp("rebase-cousins", value))
+			options->rebase_cousins = 1;
+		else
+			die(_("Unknown mode: %s"), value);
+	}
+
+	options->rebase_merges = 1;
I would expect `options->rebase_merges = 0` if `value == NULL`. IOW I
would have expected `parse_merges_value()` to start with:

	if (!value) {
		options->rebase_merges = 0;
		return;
	}

This assumes, of course, the parse_options semantics, where a `--no-*` option
passes `NULL` as argument to the callback.

However, this is _not_ the parse_options callback, and if the (optional)
argument was not specified, we do end up with a `NULL` here in spite of
wanting to enable the rebase-merges mode.

However, a primary reason why you introduce the function is to support
config value parsing. And in config value parsing, a "maybe-bool" with a
NULL value is considered to be equivalent to `true`! (See
`git_parse_maybe_bool_text()` or
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-true for
details.). For example,

	[http]
		sslVerify

is equivalent to

	[http]
		sslVerify = true

But since `git_parse_maybe_bool()` already takes care of handling that
case (in which case we do not even want to call `git_parse_maybe_bool()`),
you can limit that function to handling the command-line semantics.

So with those confusingly disagreeing semantics, I see not only myself,
but other readers doing very, very well, indeed, with a code comment that
explains under what circumstances we expect this callback to be called
with `value == NULL`.
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+}
+
 static int rebase_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
 {
 	struct rebase_options *opts = data;
@@ -815,6 +829,13 @@ static int rebase_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
 		return 0;
 	}

+	if (!strcmp(var, "rebase.merges") && value && *value) {
Why do we require a non-empty `value` here?

	[rebase]
		merges

should be equivalent to `true`,

	[rebase]
		merges =

should probably be equivalent to `false`, and both are handled correctly
by `git_parse_maybe_bool()`.
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+		opts->rebase_merges = git_parse_maybe_bool(value);
+		if (opts->rebase_merges < 0)
+			parse_merges_value(opts, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (!strcmp(var, "rebase.backend")) {
 		return git_config_string(&opts->default_backend, var, value);
 	}
@@ -980,6 +1001,18 @@ static int parse_opt_empty(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 	return 0;
 }

+static int parse_opt_merges(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
+{
+	struct rebase_options *options = opt->value;
+
+	if (unset)
+		options->rebase_merges = 0;
+	else
+		parse_merges_value(options, arg);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
It is kind of inelegant to require a _second_ callback for the
command-line parsing, but I guess if we want a `--no-rebase-merges` option
to override a config setting, we cannot help it.
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 static void NORETURN error_on_missing_default_upstream(void)
 {
 	struct branch *current_branch = branch_get(NULL);
@@ -1035,7 +1068,6 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct object_id branch_base;
 	int ignore_whitespace = 0;
 	const char *gpg_sign = NULL;
-	const char *rebase_merges = NULL;
 	struct string_list strategy_options = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
 	struct object_id squash_onto;
 	char *squash_onto_name = NULL;
@@ -1137,10 +1169,9 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			   &options.allow_empty_message,
 			   N_("allow rebasing commits with empty messages"),
 			   PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
-		{OPTION_STRING, 'r', "rebase-merges", &rebase_merges,
-			N_("mode"),
+		OPT_CALLBACK_F('r', "rebase-merges", &options, N_("mode"),
 			N_("try to rebase merges instead of skipping them"),
-			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)"no-rebase-cousins"},
+			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, parse_opt_merges),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "fork-point", &options.fork_point,
 			 N_("use 'merge-base --fork-point' to refine upstream")),
 		OPT_STRING('s', "strategy", &options.strategy,
@@ -1436,14 +1467,8 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (options.exec.nr)
 		imply_merge(&options, "--exec");

-	if (rebase_merges) {
-		if (!strcmp("rebase-cousins", rebase_merges))
-			options.rebase_cousins = 1;
-		else if (strcmp("no-rebase-cousins", rebase_merges))
-			die(_("Unknown mode: %s"), rebase_merges);
-		options.rebase_merges = 1;
+	if (options.rebase_merges)
 		imply_merge(&options, "--rebase-merges");
-	}

 	if (options.type == REBASE_APPLY) {
 		if (ignore_whitespace)
diff --git a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
index c73949df18..d4b0e8fd49 100755
--- a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
+++ b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh
@@ -284,6 +284,102 @@ test_expect_success '--rebase-merges="" is invalid syntax' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '

+test_expect_success 'rebase.merges="" is equivalent to not passing --rebase-merges' '
+	test_config rebase.merges "" &&
+	git checkout -b config-merges-blank E &&
+	git rebase C &&
+	test_cmp_graph C.. <<-\EOF
+	* B
+	* D
+	o C
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rebase.merges=rebase-cousins is equivalent to --rebase-merges=rebase-cousins' '
+	test_config rebase.merges rebase-cousins &&
+	git checkout -b config-rebase-cousins main &&
+	git rebase HEAD^ &&
+	test_cmp_graph HEAD^.. <<-\EOF
+	*   Merge the topic branch '\''onebranch'\''
+	|\
+	| * D
+	| * G
+	|/
+	o H
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--no-rebase-merges overrides rebase.merges=no-rebase-cousins' '
+	test_config rebase.merges no-rebase-cousins &&
+	git checkout -b override-config-no-rebase-cousins E &&
+	git rebase --no-rebase-merges C &&
+	test_cmp_graph C.. <<-\EOF
+	* B
+	* D
+	o C
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins overrides rebase.merges=rebase-cousins' '
+	test_config rebase.merges rebase-cousins &&
+	git checkout -b override-config-rebase-cousins main &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins HEAD^ &&
+	test_cmp_graph HEAD^.. <<-\EOF
+	*   Merge the topic branch '\''onebranch'\''
+	|\
+	| * D
+	| * G
+	o | H
+	|/
+	o A
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--rebase-merges overrides rebase.merges=false' '
+	test_config rebase.merges false &&
+	git checkout -b override-config-merges-false E &&
+	before="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges C &&
+	test_cmp_rev HEAD $before
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--rebase-merges does not override rebase.merges=rebase-cousins' '
+	test_config rebase.merges rebase-cousins &&
+	git checkout -b no-override-config-rebase-cousins main &&
+	git rebase --rebase-merges HEAD^ &&
+	test_cmp_graph HEAD^.. <<-\EOF
+	*   Merge the topic branch '\''onebranch'\''
+	|\
+	| * D
+	| * G
+	|/
+	o H
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'local rebase.merges=false overrides global rebase.merges=true' '
+	test_config_global rebase.merges true &&
+	test_config rebase.merges false &&
+	git checkout -b override-global-config E &&
+	git rebase C &&
+	test_cmp_graph C.. <<-\EOF
+	* B
+	* D
+	o C
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'local rebase.merges="" does not override global rebase.merges=true' '
+	test_config_global rebase.merges no-rebase-cousins &&
+	test_config rebase.merges "" &&
+	git checkout -b no-override-global-config E &&
+	before="$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git rebase C &&
+	test_cmp_rev HEAD $before
+'
+
I understand the temptation to introduce exhaustive matrices that test all
the different settings in all the different ways they can be specified.

However, I would much prefer to keep the tests succinct, not the least to
avoid the every-increasing runtime of Git's CI. It's already taking about
an order of magnitude or two too long to be reasonable.

So I'd suggest reducing the tests to a single one instead of eight: verify
that `rebase.merges=no-rebase-cousins` is heeded, and that
`--no-rebase-cousins` overrides that. That should be plenty sufficient to
prevent regressions.

Ciao,
Johannes
 test_expect_success 'refs/rewritten/* is worktree-local' '
 	git worktree add wt &&
 	cat >wt/script-from-scratch <<-\EOF &&
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