Hi Phillip,
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:46:37AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> Hi Denton
>
> On 16/10/2019 18:26, Denton Liu wrote:
> > In rebase, one can pass the `--autostash` option to cause the worktree
> > to be automatically stashed before continuing with the rebase. This
> > option is missing in merge, however.
>
> It might be helpful to say why this option is useful. I can see one might
> want to stash before doing `git pull` in the same way as one might before a
> rebase but what's the motivation for doing it before a normal merge?
Will do.
>
> >
> > Implement the `--autostash` option and corresponding `merge.autoStash`
> > option in merge which stashes before merging and then pops after.
> >
> > Reported-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > builtin/merge.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> > builtin/pull.c | 9 +++++----
> > t/t5520-pull.sh | 8 --------
> > 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
> > index 062e911441..d1a5eaad0d 100644
> > --- a/builtin/merge.c
> > +++ b/builtin/merge.c
> > @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> > #include "branch.h"
> > #include "commit-reach.h"
> > #include "wt-status.h"
> > +#include "autostash.h"
> > #define DEFAULT_TWOHEAD (1<<0)
> > #define DEFAULT_OCTOPUS (1<<1)
> > @@ -58,6 +59,8 @@ static const char * const builtin_merge_usage[] = {
> > NULL
> > };
> > +static GIT_PATH_FUNC(merge_autostash, "MERGE_AUTOSTASH")
> > +
> > static int show_diffstat = 1, shortlog_len = -1, squash;
> > static int option_commit = -1;
> > static int option_edit = -1;
> > @@ -81,6 +84,7 @@ static int show_progress = -1;
> > static int default_to_upstream = 1;
> > static int signoff;
> > static const char *sign_commit;
> > +static int autostash;
> > static int no_verify;
> > static struct strategy all_strategy[] = {
> > @@ -285,6 +289,8 @@ static struct option builtin_merge_options[] = {
> > OPT_SET_INT(0, "progress", &show_progress, N_("force progress reporting"), 1),
> > { OPTION_STRING, 'S', "gpg-sign", &sign_commit, N_("key-id"),
> > N_("GPG sign commit"), PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t) "" },
> > + OPT_BOOL(0, "autostash", &autostash,
> > + N_("automatically stash/stash pop before and after")),
> > OPT_BOOL(0, "overwrite-ignore", &overwrite_ignore, N_("update ignored files (default)")),
> > OPT_BOOL(0, "signoff", &signoff, N_("add Signed-off-by:")),
> > OPT_BOOL(0, "no-verify", &no_verify, N_("bypass pre-merge-commit and commit-msg hooks")),
> > @@ -440,6 +446,7 @@ static void finish(struct commit *head_commit,
> > strbuf_addf(&reflog_message, "%s: %s",
> > getenv("GIT_REFLOG_ACTION"), msg);
> > }
> > + apply_autostash(merge_autostash());
> > if (squash) {
> > squash_message(head_commit, remoteheads);
> > } else {
> > @@ -631,6 +638,9 @@ static int git_merge_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
> > } else if (!strcmp(k, "commit.gpgsign")) {
> > sign_commit = git_config_bool(k, v) ? "" : NULL;
> > return 0;
> > + } else if (!strcmp(k, "merge.autostash")) {
> > + autostash = git_config_bool(k, v);
> > + return 0;
> > }
> > status = fmt_merge_msg_config(k, v, cb);
> > @@ -724,6 +734,8 @@ static int try_merge_strategy(const char *strategy, struct commit_list *common,
> > for (j = common; j; j = j->next)
> > commit_list_insert(j->item, &reversed);
> > + if (autostash)
> > + perform_autostash(merge_autostash());
> > hold_locked_index(&lock, LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR);
> > clean = merge_recursive(&o, head,
> > remoteheads->item, reversed, &result);
> > @@ -1288,6 +1300,7 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> > /* Invoke 'git reset --merge' */
> > ret = cmd_reset(nargc, nargv, prefix);
> > + apply_autostash(merge_autostash());
> > goto done;
> > }
> > diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
> > index d25ff13a60..ee186781ae 100644
> > --- a/builtin/pull.c
> > +++ b/builtin/pull.c
> > @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static struct option pull_options[] = {
> > N_("verify that the named commit has a valid GPG signature"),
> > PARSE_OPT_NOARG),
> > OPT_BOOL(0, "autostash", &opt_autostash,
> > - N_("automatically stash/stash pop before and after rebase")),
> > + N_("automatically stash/stash pop before and after")),
>
> I've not looked closely at the code in this patch but noticed this. I think
> it would read better if it said
>
> automatically stash/stash pop before and after pulling
Since this is an `argh` argument, it says that we should "keep it
homogenous across the repository". Since rebase (which I copied it
from), merge and pull will be sharing the same argh string, I think that
we should leave it as is.
Thanks,
Denton
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Phillip
>
> > OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV('s', "strategy", &opt_strategies, N_("strategy"),
> > N_("merge strategy to use"),
> > 0),
> > @@ -671,6 +671,10 @@ static int run_merge(void)
> > argv_array_pushv(&args, opt_strategy_opts.argv);
> > if (opt_gpg_sign)
> > argv_array_push(&args, opt_gpg_sign);
> > + if (opt_autostash == 0)
> > + argv_array_push(&args, "--no-autostash");
> > + else if (opt_autostash == 1)
> > + argv_array_push(&args, "--autostash");
> > if (opt_allow_unrelated_histories > 0)
> > argv_array_push(&args, "--allow-unrelated-histories");
> > @@ -918,9 +922,6 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> > if (get_oid("HEAD", &orig_head))
> > oidclr(&orig_head);
> > - if (!opt_rebase && opt_autostash != -1)
> > - die(_("--[no-]autostash option is only valid with --rebase."));
> > -
> > autostash = config_autostash;
> > if (opt_rebase) {
> > if (opt_autostash != -1)
> > diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh
> > index cf4cc32fd0..75f162495a 100755
> > --- a/t/t5520-pull.sh
> > +++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh
> > @@ -365,14 +365,6 @@ test_expect_success 'pull --rebase --no-autostash & rebase.autostash unset' '
> > test_pull_autostash_fail --rebase --no-autostash
> > '
> > -for i in --autostash --no-autostash
> > -do
> > - test_expect_success "pull $i (without --rebase) is illegal" '
> > - test_must_fail git pull $i . copy 2>err &&
> > - test_i18ngrep "only valid with --rebase" err
> > - '
> > -done
> > -
> > test_expect_success 'pull.rebase' '
> > git reset --hard before-rebase &&
> > test_config pull.rebase true &&
> >
