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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, tao@klerks.biz, gitster@pobox.com,
	newren@gmail.com, phillip.wood123@gmail.com,
	Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, sorganov@gmail.com,
	Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>,
	Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:23:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5551d67b-3021-8cfc-53b5-318f223ded6d@dunelm.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMLpeRfD+81fsEtvKFvVepPpwYm0_-AD=QHMwhoc+LtiXpavw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alex

On 04/03/2023 23:24, Alex Henrie wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:37 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25/02/2023 18:03, Alex Henrie wrote:
> 
>>> +rebase.merges::
>>> +     Whether and how to set the `--rebase-merges` option by default. Can
>>> +     be `rebase-cousins`, `no-rebase-cousins`, or a boolean. Setting to
>>> +     true is equivalent to `--rebase-merges` without an argument, setting to
>>> +     `rebase-cousins` or `no-rebase-cousins` is equivalent to
>>> +     `--rebase-merges` with that value as its argument, and setting to false
>>> +     is equivalent to `--no-rebase-merges`. Passing `--rebase-merges` on the
>>> +     command line without an argument overrides a `rebase.merges=false`
>>> +     configuration but does not override other values of `rebase.merge`.
>>
>> I'm still not clear why the commandline doesn't override the config in
>> all cases as is our usual practice. After all if the user has set
>> rebase.merges then they don't need to pass --rebase-merges unless they
>> want to override the config.
> 
> Given the current push to turn rebase-merges on by default, it seems
> likely that rebase-cousins will also be turned on by default at some
> point after that.

It is good to try and future proof things but this seems rather 
hypothetical. I don't really see how the choice of whether 
--rebase-merges is turned on by default is related to the choice of 
whether or not to rebase cousins by default. It is worth noting that the 
default was changed to from rebase-cousins to no-rebase-cousins early in 
the development of --rebase-merges[1] as it was felt to be less surprising.

> There will be a warning about the default changing,
> and we'll want to let users suppress that warning by setting
> rebase.rebaseMerges=rebase-cousins. It would then be very confusing if
> a --rebase-merges from some old alias continued to mean
> --rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins when the user expects it to start
> behaving as though the default has already changed.

But aren't you breaking those aliases now when 
rebase.rebaseMerges=rebase-cousins? That's what I'm objecting to. It 
seems like we're breaking things now to avoid a hypothetical future 
change breaking them which does not seem like the right trade off to me.

It also does not fit with the way other optional arguments interact with 
their associated config setting. For example "git branch/checkout/switch 
--track" and branch.autoSetupMerge. If the optional argument to --track 
is omitted it defaults to "direct" irrespective of the config.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1801292251240.35@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz/

> I will rephrase the documentation in v6 to make it more clear that the
> absence of a specific value on the command line does not clobber a
> specific value set in the configuration, as Glen suggested.

The documentation in v6 is certainly quite clear on this point.

>>> +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
>>> +'
>>
>> I'm not sure this test adds much value, it is hard to see what kind of
>> regression would allow the others to pass but not this one.
> 
> I was worried that I or someone else would forget to explicitly set
> rebase_cousins to 0 when no-rebase-cousins is given on the command
> line, assuming that it is already 0 because that is the default. The
> test makes me feel better, but I am happy to remove it if you still
> think it's overkill.

Given we're using the same code to parse the command line argument and 
the config setting and we have a test for 
rebase.rebaseMerges=no-rebase-cousins I think we could drop it.

>>> +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
>>
>> This test passes if the rebase does nothing, maybe pass --force and
>> check the graph?
> 
> The rebase is supposed to do nothing here.

It's not doing nothing though - it is rebasing the branch, it just 
happens that everything fast-forwards so HEAD ends up unchanged. My 
point is that this test should verify the branch has been rebased. Maybe 
you could check the reflog message for HEAD@{0} is

	rebase (finish): returning to refs/heads/override-config-merges-false

> Checking that the commit
> hash is the same is just a quick way to check that the entire graph is
> the same. What more would be checked by checking the graph instead of
> the hash?

By using --force and checking the graph you check that the rebase 
actually happened.

Thanks for working on this

Phillip

> Thanks for the feedback,
> 
> -Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-07 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23  5:34 [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] rebase: stop accepting --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:54   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 17:50       ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:23           ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:55               ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 19:56                     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:53   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:49     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 14:55   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 17:51     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 13:57   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 19:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-25 18:09     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:23     ` Glen Choo
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:46     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02 10:07     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:43     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02  9:37     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 16:23         ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2023-03-12 20:57           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-13 14:20             ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-13 16:12               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-13 19:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:47             ` About replaying "evil" merges... " Johannes Schindelin
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:14   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Glen Choo
2023-03-02  5:02     ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-02  5:09       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07   ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-08 22:25       ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:59       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:56       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-07 18:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-12 21:01           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-08  0:09         ` Glen Choo
2023-03-08  0:02       ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:03         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-15  2:52         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 17:32           ` Glen Choo
2023-03-16 18:11             ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 22:46               ` Glen Choo
2023-03-16 23:48                 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 20:27             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 22:39               ` Glen Choo
2023-03-18  5:59                 ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-24 15:05               ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-03-25 16:59               ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 12:22     ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 21:33       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05 22:54         ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06  0:02           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-06 13:23             ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06 19:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 16:24     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-06 17:36       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 15:07         ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-08  0:13     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:04     ` [PATCH v7 " Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59       ` [PATCH v8 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-22 16:54           ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 18:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:52               ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-25  5:23               ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-25  5:21             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06         ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26 15:12           ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Phillip Wood
2023-03-27 16:33             ` Junio C Hamano

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