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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Isaac Chou <Isaac.Chou@microfocus.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fast-export: fix regression skipping some merge-commits
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:16:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSKBAq3h4CAe4phFoG+APDV_qzApJgCpYK6AZrjW-+xxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180420221231.4131611-1-martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> wrote:
> 7199203937 (object_array: add and use `object_array_pop()`, 2017-09-23)
> noted that the pattern `object = array.objects[--array.nr].item` could
> be abstracted as `object = object_array_pop(&array)`.
>
> Unfortunately, one of the conversions was horribly wrong. Between
> grabbing the last object (i.e., peeking at it) and decreasing the object
> count, the original code would sometimes return early. The updated code
> on the other hand, will always pop the last element, then maybe do the
> early return without doing anything with the object.
>
> The end result is that merge commits where all the parents have still
> not been exported will simply be dropped, meaning that they will be
> completely missing from the exported data.
>
> Re-add a commit when it is not yet time to handle it. An alternative
> that was considered was to peek-then-pop. That carries some risk with it
> since the peeking and poping need to act on the same object, in a

s/poping/popping/

> concerted fashion.
>
> Add a test that would have caught this.
>
> Reported-by: Isaac Chou <Isaac.Chou@microfocus.com>
> Analyzed-by: Isaac Chou <Isaac.Chou@microfocus.com>
> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-20 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-19 21:46 [BUG] Git fast-export with import marks file omits merge commits Isaac Chou
2018-04-19 22:26 ` Elijah Newren
2018-04-19 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-20  5:07   ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-20 13:53     ` Isaac Chou
2018-04-20 18:12       ` [PATCH] fast-export: fix regression skipping some merge-commits Martin Ågren
2018-04-20 18:57         ` Isaac Chou
2018-04-20 19:08           ` [PATCH v2] " Martin Ågren
2018-04-20 19:07         ` [PATCH] " Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-20 19:32           ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-20 21:00             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-20 22:12               ` [PATCH v3] " Martin Ågren
2018-04-20 22:16                 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-04-21  6:58                   ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-21  3:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-21  7:00                   ` Martin Ågren
2018-06-01 19:41                     ` Isaac Chou
2018-06-02  6:48                       ` Duy Nguyen

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