On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:32:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > The problem seems to be that command > > git merge-base --fork-point refs/remotes/origin/tmp refs/heads/tmp > > returns nothing, because the refs are packed. > > The --fork-point option looks in the reflog to notice that the upstream > branch has been rebased. I don't think clone actually writes reflog > entries, though, which would explain why it happens only on the first > pull after clone. > > I suspect the necessary information _is_ there, though. When we update > the tracking branch, the new reflog entry will show it going from sha1 > X to sha1 Y. So my guess is that --fork-point is looking for the entry > where it became "X" (which doesn't exist, because clone did not write > it), but it _could_ find that we came from "X" in the very first reflog > entry. Actually, --fork-point gets this case right; it will put the "old" sha1 for the initial reflog entry into the list of base tips. But this merge-base actually runs before we fetch, so there literally is no reflog when it runs. And it doesn't get that case right. Here's a fix. The test I added checks things more directly, but I confirmed manually that it also fixes the rebase case that you reported. -- >8 -- Subject: merge-base: handle --fork-point without reflog The --fork-point option looks in the reflog to try to find where a derived branch forked from a base branch. However, if the reflog for the base branch is totally empty (as it commonly is right after cloning, which does not write a reflog entry), then our for_each_reflog call will not find any entries, and we will come up with no merge base, even though there may be one with the current tip of the base. We can fix this by just adding the current tip to our list of collected entries. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- It would actually be correct to just unconditionally add the ref tip, as add_one_commit already drops duplicates. But it would only be necessary in other cases if you have a broken reflog which is missing the entry that moved us to the current tip. builtin/merge-base.c | 3 +++ t/t6010-merge-base.sh | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/merge-base.c b/builtin/merge-base.c index c0d1822..b572a37 100644 --- a/builtin/merge-base.c +++ b/builtin/merge-base.c @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ static int handle_fork_point(int argc, const char **argv) revs.initial = 1; for_each_reflog_ent(refname, collect_one_reflog_ent, &revs); + if (!revs.nr && !get_sha1(refname, sha1)) + add_one_commit(sha1, &revs); + for (i = 0; i < revs.nr; i++) revs.commit[i]->object.flags &= ~TMP_MARK; diff --git a/t/t6010-merge-base.sh b/t/t6010-merge-base.sh index e0c5f44..31db7b5 100755 --- a/t/t6010-merge-base.sh +++ b/t/t6010-merge-base.sh @@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ test_expect_success 'using reflog to find the fork point' ' test_cmp expect3 actual ' +test_expect_success '--fork-point works with empty reflog' ' + git -c core.logallrefupdates=false branch no-reflog base && + git merge-base --fork-point no-reflog derived && + test_cmp expect3 actual +' + test_expect_success 'merge-base --octopus --all for complex tree' ' # Best common ancestor for JE, JAA and JDD is JC # JE -- 2.10.1.587.g4098016