I saw some unexpected usage output today in git pull --rebase when I
was on a detached head.
$ git pull --rebase origin BL/3.0
usage: git merge-base [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
or: git merge-base [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>...
or: git merge-base --independent <commit>...
or: git merge-base --is-ancestor <commit> <commit>
-a, --all output all common ancestors
--octopus find ancestors for a single n-way merge
--independent list revs not reachable from others
--is-ancestor is the first one ancestor of the other?
>From gerrit:iptv/bootloader-all
* branch BL/3.0 -> FETCH_HEAD
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Fast-forwarded HEAD to 99ba23a9fce5c5becb9dd86b5f76a8467286d811.
$
It occurs when using pull --rebase on a detached head. It's because
git-pull doesn't expect ${current_branch} to be empty in some places,
but it does check in others. It appears to have been introduced three
years ago and no one seems to have complained yet. I hesitate to
mention it during a release cycle, but I worry I'll forget later.
Here's a patch.
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] git-pull: Avoid merge-base on detached head
git pull --rebase does some clever tricks to find the base
for $upstream , but it forgets that we may not have any
branch at all. As a result, git merge-base emits some
usage noise in the middle of an otherwise successful
rebase operation.
Since we do not need the merge-base trick in the case of a
detached HEAD, detect this condition and bypass the clever
trick.
---
There is another git-merge-base call which may need similar
treatment, but I have not dug deeply enough to see for sure.
git-pull.sh | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
index 2a10047..266e682 100755
--- a/git-pull.sh
+++ b/git-pull.sh
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ test true = "$rebase" && {
require_clean_work_tree "pull with rebase" "Please commit or stash them."
fi
oldremoteref= &&
+ test -n "$curr_branch" &&
. git-parse-remote &&
remoteref="$(get_remote_merge_branch "$@" 2>/dev/null)" &&
oldremoteref="$(git rev-parse -q --verify "$remoteref")" &&
--
1.8.0.rc2.1.g44028c0.dirty
Phil
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