From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Vít Ondruch" <vondruch@redhat.com>,
"Alex Henrie" <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.email>,
"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Jacob Keller" <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
"John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>,
"Richard Hansen" <rhansen@rhansen.org>,
"Brian M. Carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/14] pull: cleanup autostash check
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:57:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BEsQWsHMAmwc3gmJnXcS+aR-FtoMJxBRQ=BpARP49-L-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0D42s=q8TJqxwswOHb4PO-NW6SEUt-LwfvqiGgvkre9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:47 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:07 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:16 PM Felipe Contreras
> > <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This essentially reverts commit f15e7cf5cc.
> > >
> > > Once commit d9f15d37f1 introduced the autostash option for the merge
> > > mode, it's not necessary to skip the fast-forward run_merge() when
> > > autostash is set.
> >
> > It helps reviewers and future code readers if you provide a little
> > context when referring to commits, making use of git log's
> > --pretty=reference option to get the output.
>
> Yes, I actually have this alias:
>
> short = show --quiet --format='%C(auto)%h (%s)%C(reset)'
>
> Which shows almost the same thing. I've updated it to
> --format=reference. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> And I usually add those descriptions.
>
> > So, for example, here
> > your commit would read:
> >
> > """
> > This essentially reverts commit f15e7cf5cc (pull: ff --rebase
> > --autostash works in dirty repo, 2017-06-01).
> >
> > Once commit d9f15d37f1 (pull: pass --autostash to merge, 2020-04-07)
> > introduced the autostash option for the merge
> > mode, it's not necessary to skip the fast-forward run_merge() when
> > autostash is set.
> > """
> >
> > I still found it slightly hard to follow the explanation even with the
> > added summaries, though.
>
> And that's the reason I didn't add them. You need to look at both the
> commits to understand why one cancels the other. In my opinion in this
> particular case the description only makes the text harder to read.
>
> Probably some better $subjects like f15e7cf5cc (pull: skip ff merge
> shortcut on --rebase --autostash) would have helped.
>
> > An extra sentence at the end of the second
> > paragraph to make it clear what is being changed ("So, change the code
> > to fast-forward even when autostash is set.") seems to help.
>
> OK. That's implied by "it's not necessary to skip the fast-forward"
> but it's better to be explicit.
>
> How about this:
>
> Currently "git pull --rebase" takes a shortcut in the case a
> fast-forward merge is possible; run_merge() is called with --ff-only.
>
> However, "git merge" didn't have an --autostash option, so, when "git
> pull --rebase --autostash" was called *and* the fast-forward merge
> shortcut was taken, then the pull failed.
>
> This was fixed in commit f15e7cf5cc (pull: ff --rebase --autostash
> works in dirty repo, 2017-06-01) by simply skipping the fast-forward
> merge shortcut.
>
> Later on "git merge" learned the --autostash option [a03b55530a
> (merge: teach --autostash option, 2020-04-07)], and so did "git pull"
> [d9f15d37f1 (pull: pass --autostash to merge, 2020-04-07)].
>
> Therefore it's not necessary to skip the fast-forward merge shortcut
> anymore when called with --rebase --autostash.
>
> Let's always take the fast-forward merge shortcut by essentially
> reverting f15e7cf5cc.
Yes, very nice! Thanks.
Elijah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-05 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 6:16 [PATCH v2 00/14] pull: default warning improvements Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] doc: pull: explain what is a fast-forward Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 22:55 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:21 ` Jacob Keller
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] pull: improve default warning Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 22:59 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 0:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 0:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 9:23 ` Chris Torek
2020-12-05 11:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 16:28 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 21:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-06 1:01 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-06 14:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-07 9:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-07 19:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-07 22:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 23:30 ` Jacob Keller
2020-12-08 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-08 3:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-08 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-09 9:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09 19:05 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-10 2:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-10 6:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-10 9:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-10 10:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11 7:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-11 11:33 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-14 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-14 22:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-14 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-15 2:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-15 2:31 ` Jeff King
2020-12-15 3:49 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-15 11:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-15 12:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 9:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] pull: refactor fast-forward check Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] pull: cleanup autostash check Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:07 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 0:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 0:57 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] pull: trivial cleanup Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:09 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 0:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] pull: move default warning Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:18 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-04 23:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] pull: display default warning only when non-ff Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:24 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] pull: trivial whitespace style fix Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] pull: introduce --merge option Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:27 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] pull: add proper error with --ff-only Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:34 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] tentative: pull: change the semantics of --ff-only Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:39 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 4:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 4:06 ` [PATCH] experiment: pull: change --ff-only and default mode Felipe Contreras
2020-12-05 17:29 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 18:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-07 7:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-05 11:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] tentative: pull: change the semantics of --ff-only Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] pull: show warning with --ff Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:41 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] test: merge-pull-config: trivial cleanup Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:41 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-04 6:16 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] test: pull-options: revert unnecessary changes Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 23:49 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-05 1:28 ` Felipe Contreras
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