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-rw-r--r--merge-recursive.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t3030-merge-recursive.sh50
2 files changed, 51 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 780f81a8bd..0fc580d8ca 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ int merge_trees(struct merge_options *o,
if (oid_eq(&common->object.oid, &merge->object.oid)) {
struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
- if (index_has_changes(&sb)) {
+ if (!o->call_depth && index_has_changes(&sb)) {
err(o, _("Dirty index: cannot merge (dirty: %s)"),
sb.buf);
return 0;
diff --git a/t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh b/t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh
index 9a893b5fe7..cdc38fe5d1 100755
--- a/t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh
+++ b/t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh
@@ -678,4 +678,54 @@ test_expect_success 'merge-recursive remembers the names of all base trees' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_success 'merge-recursive internal merge resolves to the sameness' '
+ git reset --hard HEAD &&
+
+ # We are going to create a history leading to two criss-cross
+ # branches A and B. The common ancestor at the bottom, O0,
+ # has two child commits O1 and O2, both of which will be merge
+ # base between A and B, like so:
+ #
+ # O1---A
+ # / \ /
+ # O0 .
+ # \ / \
+ # O2---B
+ #
+ # The recently added "check to see if the index is different from
+ # the tree into which something else is getting merged" check must
+ # NOT kick in when an inner merge between O1 and O2 is made. Both
+ # O1 and O2 happen to have the same tree as O0 in this test to
+ # trigger the bug---whether the inner merge is made by merging O2
+ # into O1 or O1 into O2, their common ancestor O0 and the branch
+ # being merged have the same tree. We should not trigger the "is
+ # the index dirty?" check in this case.
+
+ echo "zero" >file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m "O0" &&
+ O0=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit --allow-empty -m "O1" &&
+ O1=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+ git reset --hard $O0 &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit --allow-empty -m "O2" &&
+ O2=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+ test_tick &&
+ git merge -s ours $O1 &&
+ B=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+ git reset --hard $O1 &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git merge -s ours $O2 &&
+ A=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+ git merge $B
+'
+
test_done