If you were on 'frotz' branch before you checked out your current branch, "git merge @{-1}~22" means the same as "git merge frotz~22". The strbuf_branchname() function, when interpret_branch_name() gives up resolving "@{-1}~22" fully, returns "frotz" and tells the caller that it only resolved "@{-1}" part of the input, mistakes this as a total failure, and appends the whole thing to the result, yielding "frotz@{-1}~22", which does not make any sense. Inspect the return valud from interpret_branch_name() a bit more carefully. When it errored out without consuming anything, we will get -1 and we should return the whole thing. Otherwise, we should append the remainder (i.e. "~22" in the earlier example) to the partially resolved name (i.e. "frotz"). The test suite adds enough number of checkout to make @{-12} in the last test in t0100 that tried to check "we haven't flipped branches that many times" error case; raise the number to a hundred. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * The original code in a552de75eb01 (strbuf_branchname(): a wrapper for branch name shorthands, 2009-03-21) did not have this problem only because interpret_branch_name() did not return a partial success, but in today's code after d46a8301930a (fix parsing of @{-1}@{u} combination, 2010-01-28), it should pay attention to the condition. There might be other callers of interpret_branch_name() that still assume there is no partial success; I didn't check. sha1_name.c | 8 ++++++-- t/t0100-previous.sh | 15 +++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 3820f28..371a49d 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -1055,9 +1055,13 @@ int interpret_branch_name(const char *name, struct strbuf *buf) int strbuf_branchname(struct strbuf *sb, const char *name) { int len = strlen(name); - if (interpret_branch_name(name, sb) == len) + int used = interpret_branch_name(name, sb); + + if (used == len) return 0; - strbuf_add(sb, name, len); + if (used < 0) + used = 0; + strbuf_add(sb, name + used, len - used); return len; } diff --git a/t/t0100-previous.sh b/t/t0100-previous.sh index 315b9b3..e0a6940 100755 --- a/t/t0100-previous.sh +++ b/t/t0100-previous.sh @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ test_expect_success 'merge @{-1}' ' test_commit B && git checkout A && test_commit C && + test_commit D && git branch -f master B && git branch -f other && git checkout other && @@ -35,14 +36,24 @@ test_expect_success 'merge @{-1}' ' git cat-file commit HEAD | grep "Merge branch '\''other'\''" ' -test_expect_success 'merge @{-1} when there is not enough switches yet' ' +test_expect_success 'merge @{-1}~1' ' + git checkout master && + git reset --hard B && + git checkout other && + git checkout master && + git merge @{-1}~1 && + git cat-file commit HEAD >actual && + grep "Merge branch '\''other'\''" actual +' + +test_expect_success 'merge @{-100} before checking out that many branches yet' ' git reflog expire --expire=now && git checkout -f master && git reset --hard B && git branch -f other C && git checkout other && git checkout master && - test_must_fail git merge @{-12} + test_must_fail git merge @{-100} ' test_done -- 1.8.3-rc2-210-gbc3cf50 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html