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2021-12-20merge: allow to pretend a merge is made into a different branchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
When a series of patches for a topic-B depends on having topic-A, the workflow to prepare the topic-B branch would look like this: $ git checkout -b topic-B main $ git merge --no-ff --no-edit topic-A $ git am <mbox-for-topic-B When topic-A gets updated, recreating the first merge and rebasing the rest of the topic-B, all on detached HEAD, is a useful technique. After updating topic-A with its new round of patches: $ git checkout topic-B $ prev=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{/^Merge branch .topic-A. into}') $ git checkout --detach $prev^1 $ git merge --no-ff --no-edit topic-A $ git rebase --onto HEAD $prev @{-1}^0 $ git checkout -B @{-1} This will (0) check out the current topic-B. (1) find the previous merge of topic-A into topic-B. (2) detach the HEAD to the parent of the previous merge. (3) merge the updated topic-A to it. (4) reapply the patches to rebuild the rest of topic-B. (5) update topic-B with the result. without contaminating the reflog of topic-B too much. topic-B@{1} is the "logically previous" state before topic-A got updated, for example. At (4), comparison (e.g. range-diff) between HEAD and @{-1} is a meaningful way to sanity check the result, and the same can be done at (5) by comparing topic-B and topic-B@{1}. But there is one glitch. The merge into the detached HEAD done in the step (3) above gives us "Merge branch 'topic-A' into HEAD", and does not say "into topic-B". Teach the "--into-name=<branch>" option to "git merge" and its underlying "git fmt-merge-message", to pretend as if we were merging into <branch>, no matter what branch we are actually merging into, when they prepare the merge message. The pretend name honors the usual "into <target>" suppression mechanism, which can be seen in the tests added here. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-24Lib-ify fmt-merge-msgLibravatar Denton Liu1-0/+13
In builtin.h, there exists the distinctly "lib-ish" function fmt_merge_msg(). This function can currently only be called by built-in commands but, unlike most of the other functions in the header, it does not make sense to impose this restriction as the functionality can be logically reused in libgit. Extract this function into fmt-merge-msg.c so that related definitions can exist clearly in their own header file. While we're at it, clean up #includes that are unused. This patch is best viewed with --color-moved. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatchLibravatar Denton Liu1-1/+1
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations. Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern` declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch. This was the Coccinelle patch used: @@ type T; identifier f; @@ - extern T f(...); and it was run with: $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | grep -v ^compat/ | xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-07fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.descriptionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
This teaches "merge --log" and fmt-merge-msg to use branch description information when merging a local topic branch into the mainline. The description goes between the branch name label and the list of commit titles. The refactoring to share the common configuration parsing between merge and fmt-merge-msg needs to be made into a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>