rerere: release lockfile in non-writing functions

There's a bug in builtin/am.c in which we take a lock on
MERGE_RR recursively. But rather than fix am.c, this patch
fixes the confusing interface from rerere.c that caused the
bug. Read on for the gory details.

The setup_rerere() function both reads the existing MERGE_RR
file, and takes MERGE_RR.lock. In the rerere() and
rerere_forget() functions, we end up in write_rr(), which
will then commit the lock file.

But for functions like rerere_clear() that do not write to
MERGE_RR, we expect the caller to have handled
setup_rerere(). That caller would then need to release the
lockfile, but it can't; the lock struct is local to
rerere.c.

For builtin/rerere.c, this is OK. We run a single rerere
operation and then exit immediately, which has the side
effect of rolling back the lockfile.

But in builtin/am.c, this is actively wrong. If we run "git
am -3 --skip", we call setup-rerere twice without releasing
the lock:

  1. The "--skip" causes us to call am_rerere_clear(), which
     calls setup_rerere(), but never drops the lock.

  2. We then proceed to the next patch.

  3. The "--3way" may cause us to call rerere() to handle
     conflicts in that patch, but we are already holding the
     lock. The lockfile code dies with:

     BUG: prepare_tempfile_object called for active object

We could fix this by having rerere_clear() call
rollback_lock_file(). But it feels a bit odd for it to roll
back a lockfile that it did not itself take. So let's
simplify the interface further, and handle setup_rerere in
the function itself, taking away the question from the
caller over whether they need to do so.

We can give rerere_gc() the same treatment, as well (even
though it doesn't have any callers besides builtin/rerere.c
at this point). Note that these functions don't take flags
from their callers to pass along to setup_rerere; that's OK,
because the flags would not be meaningful for what they are
doing.

Both of those functions need to hold the lock because even
though they do not write to MERGE_RR, they are still writing
and should be protected from a simultaneous "rerere" run.
But rerere_remaining(), "rerere diff", and "rerere status"
are all read-only operations. They want to setup_rerere(),
but do not care about taking the lock in the first place.
Since our update of MERGE_RR is the usual atomic rename done
by commit_lock_file, they can just do a lockless read. For
that, we teach setup_rerere a READONLY flag to avoid the
lock.

As a bonus, this pushes builtin/rerere.c's setup_rerere call
closer to the functions that use it. Which means that "git
rerere totally-bogus-command" will no longer silently
exit(0) in a repository without rerere enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4150-am.sh b/t/t4150-am.sh
index dd627c42d3..af6053a242 100755
--- a/t/t4150-am.sh
+++ b/t/t4150-am.sh
@@ -873,4 +873,40 @@ test_expect_success 'am --message-id -s signs off after the message id' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'am -3 works with rerere' '
+	rm -fr .git/rebase-apply &&
+	git reset --hard &&
+
+	# make patches one->two and two->three...
+	test_commit one file &&
+	test_commit two file &&
+	test_commit three file &&
+	git format-patch -2 --stdout >seq.patch &&
+
+	# and create a situation that conflicts...
+	git reset --hard one &&
+	test_commit other file &&
+
+	# enable rerere...
+	test_config rerere.enabled true &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf .git/rr-cache" &&
+
+	# ...and apply. Our resolution is to skip the first
+	# patch, and the rerere the second one.
+	test_must_fail git am -3 seq.patch &&
+	test_must_fail git am --skip &&
+	echo resolved >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	git am --resolved &&
+
+	# now apply again, and confirm that rerere engaged (we still
+	# expect failure from am because rerere does not auto-commit
+	# for us).
+	git reset --hard other &&
+	test_must_fail git am -3 seq.patch &&
+	test_must_fail git am --skip &&
+	echo resolved >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file
+'
+
 test_done