On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:09:02AM -0700, Denton Liu wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:26:57AM -0700, Denton Liu wrote: > > I tried my hand at fixing the bug but in the hour I spent going at it, I > > couldn't fix the logic up. The buggy logic is in graph.c: > > graph_draw_octopus_merge() in case anyone is interested. > > I guess for the record, this was the final patch that I ended up with. > Two issues with it, though: > > 1. It assumes that there can be no parallel paths on the right side, > which I'm not sure is a correct assumption. > > 2. It _still_ fails my last proposed test case. > > -- >8 -- > > diff --git a/graph.c b/graph.c > index f53135485f..f9395a2327 100644 > --- a/graph.c > +++ b/graph.c > @@ -881,8 +881,7 @@ static int graph_draw_octopus_merge(struct git_graph *graph, > /* > * In both cases, commit_index corresponds to the edge labeled "0". > */ > - int first_col = graph->commit_index + dashless_parents > - - parent_in_old_cols; > + int first_col = graph->num_new_columns - dashful_parents; > > int i; > for (i = 0; i < dashful_parents; i++) { Hmm. Looking at the broken case from "git log -2 --graph 74c7cfa875", I see that added_cols is "4", which is right (we had 2 lines coming in, and then with the 5 parents that becomes 6). But one of those lines is already counted as "dashless". We account for that with parent_in_old_cols, which is 1, and subtract that way from first_col. That works for the diagram in the code: | *---. | |\ \ \ |/ / / / x 0 1 2 where one of the parent lines is collapsing back to the left. But not for this more mundane case: | *-----. commit 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e | |\ \ \ \ Merge: fc54a9c30c 9e30dd7c0e c4b83e618f 660265909f b28858bf65 | | | | | | where we go straight down. I'm not sure I've fully grasped it, but it feels like that distinction is the source of the off-by-one. I'm not sure how to tell the difference here, though. I think it relies on the next commit on the left-hand line being the same as the first parent (or maybe any parent?). If I remove the use of parent_in_old_cols entirely, the merge looks right, but the "collapsing" one is broken (and t4214 fails). By the way, a useful trick I stumbled on to look at the coloring across many such merges: git log --graph --format=%h --color | grep -A2 -e - | less -S It looks like every octopus in git.git is colored wrong (because they're the non-collapsing type). -Peff