Hi Elijah, [after this update, I will shut up until you chime in, promise!] On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2022, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > It would be great if you could have a quick look over the commits I > > > added on top of your branch, to see whether things make more or less > > > sense to you. But if you're too busy elsewhere, I am one of the best > > > persons to understand that, too. > > > > Hopefully I will get this into a reviewable shape before you get to > > looking at it, so that your time is spent more wisely than what I > > asked for ;-) > > I hope to find some time to work on this more tomorrow; If not, I will > get back to the project on Wednesday and push it further. I did get a chance, and polished the patch series a bit. I also rebased it onto the current tip of Git's main branch, mainly to address some merge conflicts preemptively. The result is pushed up to https://github.com/dscho/git/tree/js/in-core-merge-tree. This is the range-diff relative to `newren/wip-for-in-core-merge-tree`: -- snip -- 1: cccb3888070 < -: ----------- tmp-objdir: new API for creating temporary writable databases 2: 4e44121c2d7 < -: ----------- tmp-objdir: disable ref updates when replacing the primary odb 3: 0b94724311d < -: ----------- show, log: provide a --remerge-diff capability 4: f06de6c1b2f < -: ----------- log: clean unneeded objects during `log --remerge-diff` 5: 8d6c3d48f0e < -: ----------- ll-merge: make callers responsible for showing warnings 6: de8e8f88fa4 < -: ----------- merge-ort: capture and print ll-merge warnings in our preferred fashion 7: 6b535a4d55a < -: ----------- merge-ort: mark a few more conflict messages as omittable 8: e2441608c63 < -: ----------- merge-ort: format messages slightly different for use in headers 9: 62734beb693 < -: ----------- diff: add ability to insert additional headers for paths 10: 17eccf7e0d6 < -: ----------- show, log: include conflict/warning messages in --remerge-diff headers 11: b3e7656cfc6 < -: ----------- merge-ort: mark conflict/warning messages from inner merges as omittable 12: ea5df61cf35 < -: ----------- diff-merges: avoid history simplifications when diffing merges 13: 4a7cd5542bb = 1: 8fb51817ed4 merge-tree: rename merge_trees() to trivial_merge_trees() 14: 4780ff6784d = 2: 8e0a79fa1ad merge-tree: move logic for existing merge into new function 15: 60253745f5c = 3: baf0950bcb6 merge-tree: add option parsing and initial shell for real merge function 16: f8266d39c1b = 4: 697470e50ae merge-tree: implement real merges 17: 6629af14919 = 5: 069af1ecc30 merge-ort: split out a separate display_update_messages() function 18: 17b57efb714 = 6: 53c92a5d8d9 merge-tree: support including merge messages in output 19: 4c8f42372dd = 7: 67a728d35f0 merge-ort: provide a merge_get_conflicted_files() helper function 25: 8fe5be07cd0 ! 8: 6419487e26b merge-ort: remove command-line-centric submodule message from merge-ort @@ merge-ort.c: static int merge_submodule(struct merge_options *opt, strbuf_release(&sb); break; default: + + ## t/t6437-submodule-merge.sh ## +@@ t/t6437-submodule-merge.sh: test_expect_success 'merging should conflict for non fast-forward' ' + (cd merge-search && + git checkout -b test-nonforward b && + (cd sub && +- git rev-parse sub-d > ../expect) && ++ git rev-parse --short sub-d > ../expect) && + if test "$GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM" = ort + then + test_must_fail git merge c >actual 20: 7b1ee417f3d ! 9: c92b81e7366 merge-tree: provide a list of which files have conflicts @@ builtin/merge-tree.c: static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o, + string_list_clear(&conflicted_files, 1); + } if (o->show_messages) { - printf("\n"); +- printf("\n"); ++ putchar(line_termination); merge_display_update_messages(&opt, &result); + } + merge_finalize(&opt, &result); @@ builtin/merge-tree.c: int cmd_merge_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) /* Do the relevant type of merge */ 21: f1231a8fbc8 = 10: d7360f58f16 merge-tree: provide easy access to `ls-files -u` style info -: ----------- > 11: b53ef9c2116 merge-ort: store messages in a list, not in a single strbuf -: ----------- > 12: b16d570d248 merge-ort: make `path_messages` a strmap to a string_list -: ----------- > 13: b575a6b5f8a merge-ort: store more specific conflict information -: ----------- > 14: 4f245cc28ae merge-ort: optionally produce machine-readable output 22: 22297e6ce75 ! 15: 6a369f837be merge-tree: allow `ls-files -u` style info to be NUL terminated @@ builtin/merge-tree.c: static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o, if (!result.clean) { struct string_list conflicted_files = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; const char *last = NULL; -@@ builtin/merge-tree.c: static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o, - string_list_clear(&conflicted_files, 1); - } - if (o->show_messages) { -- printf("\n"); -+ putchar(line_termination); - merge_display_update_messages(&opt, &result); - } - merge_finalize(&opt, &result); @@ builtin/merge-tree.c: int cmd_merge_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) N_("do a trivial merge only"), MODE_TRIVIAL), OPT_BOOL(0, "messages", &o.show_messages, @@ t/t4301-merge-tree-write-tree.sh: test_expect_success 'Check conflicted oids and + + test_expect_code 1 git merge-tree --write-tree -z tweak1 side2 >out && + anonymize_hash out >actual && ++ printf "\\n" >>actual && + + # Expected results: + # "greeting" should merge with conflicts @@ t/t4301-merge-tree-write-tree.sh: test_expect_success 'Check conflicted oids and + + EOF + -+ cat <<-EOF >>expect && -+ Auto-merging greeting -+ CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in greeting -+ CONFLICT (file/directory): directory in the way of whatever from tweak1; moving it to whatever~tweak1 instead. -+ CONFLICT (modify/delete): whatever~tweak1 deleted in side2 and modified in tweak1. Version tweak1 of whatever~tweak1 left in tree. -+ Auto-merging Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα -+ CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα ++ q_to_nul <<-EOF >>expect && ++ 1QgreetingQAuto-mergingQAuto-merging greeting ++ Q1QgreetingQCONFLICT (contents)QCONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in greeting ++ Q2Qwhatever~tweak1QwhateverQCONFLICT (file/directory)QCONFLICT (file/directory): directory in the way of whatever from tweak1; moving it to whatever~tweak1 instead. ++ Q1Qwhatever~tweak1QCONFLICT (modify/delete)QCONFLICT (modify/delete): whatever~tweak1 deleted in side2 and modified in tweak1. Version tweak1 of whatever~tweak1 left in tree. ++ Q1QΑυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικαQAuto-mergingQAuto-merging Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα ++ Q1QΑυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικαQCONFLICT (contents)QCONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα ++ Q + EOF + + test_cmp expect actual 23: db73c6dd823 = 16: 47146dd59dd merge-tree: add a --allow-unrelated-histories flag 24: d58a7c7a9f6 ! 17: 3ce28f6fd97 git-merge-tree.txt: add a section on potentional usage mistakes @@ Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt: with linkgit:git-merge[1]: +<> section has the necessary info, though it +is not designed to be machine parseable. + ++Do NOT assume that each paths from <>, and ++the logical conflicts in the <> have a ++one-to-one mapping, nor that there is a one-to-many mapping, nor a ++many-to-one mapping. Many-to-many mappings exist, meaning that each ++path can have many logical conflict types in a single merge, and each ++logical conflict type can affect many paths. ++ +Do NOT assume all filenames listed in the <> +section had conflicts. Messages can be included for files that have no +conflicts, such as "Auto-merging ". 26: 78e1243eca1 < -: ----------- WIP -- snap -- I am pretty happy with the current state of the patches, and hope that we can push this patch series over the finish line. If you can think of anything I can do to help with this, please do let me know, I am _very_ interested in getting this done, and finally am in a position to help. Ciao, Dscho