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| author | John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> | 2022-03-18 13:54:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-03-18 09:48:53 -0700 |
| commit | bdff97a3f6e66107abd136815c8fa1eda5c67aca (patch) | |
| tree | c984c972433f4f2da9294a2b8b6de367ea55fc30 /builtin/rebase.c | |
| parent | 77ab58c0919ea9d13251c3a1ba52b301d91e1912 (diff) | |
| download | git-bdff97a3f6e66107abd136815c8fa1eda5c67aca.tar.gz | |
rebase: set REF_HEAD_DETACH in checkout_up_to_date()
"git rebase A B" where B is not a commit should behave as if the
HEAD got detached at B and then the detached HEAD got rebased on top
of A. A bug however overwrites the current branch to point at B,
when B is a descendant of A (i.e. the rebase ends up being a
fast-forward). See [1] for the original bug report.
The callstack from checkout_up_to_date() is the following:
cmd_rebase()
-> checkout_up_to_date()
-> reset_head()
-> update_refs()
-> update_ref()
When B is not a valid branch but an oid, rebase sets the head_name
of rebase_options to NULL. This value gets passed down this call
chain through the branch member of reset_head_opts also getting set
to NULL all the way to update_refs().
Then update_refs() checks ropts.branch to decide whether or not to switch
branches. If ropts.branch is NULL, it calls update_ref() to update HEAD.
At this point however, from rebase's point of view, we want a detached
HEAD. But, since checkout_up_to_date() does not set the RESET_HEAD_DETACH
flag, the update_ref() call will deference HEAD and update the branch its
pointing to. We want the HEAD detached at B instead.
Fix this bug by adding the RESET_HEAD_DETACH flag in
checkout_up_to_date if B is not a valid branch, so that once
reset_head() calls update_refs(), it calls update_ref() with
REF_NO_DEREF which updates HEAD directly intead of deferencing it
and updating the branch that HEAD points to.
Also add a test to ensure the correct behavior.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YiokTm3GxIZQQUow@newk/
Reported-by: Michael McClimon <michael@mcclimon.org>
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/rebase.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/rebase.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c index b29ad2b65e..27fde7bf28 100644 --- a/builtin/rebase.c +++ b/builtin/rebase.c @@ -829,6 +829,8 @@ static int checkout_up_to_date(struct rebase_options *options) ropts.oid = &options->orig_head; ropts.branch = options->head_name; ropts.flags = RESET_HEAD_RUN_POST_CHECKOUT_HOOK; + if (!ropts.branch) + ropts.flags |= RESET_HEAD_DETACH; ropts.head_msg = buf.buf; if (reset_head(the_repository, &ropts) < 0) ret = error(_("could not switch to %s"), options->switch_to); |