Hi Phillip, On Thu, 10 Nov 2022, Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The arguments to the `reset` and `merge` commands may be a label created > with a `label` command or an arbitrary commit name. The `merge` command > uses the lookup_label() function to lookup its arguments but `reset` has > a slightly different version of that function in do_reset(). Reduce this > code duplication by calling lookup_label() from do_reset() as well. > > This change improves the behavior of `reset` when the argument is a > tree. Previously `reset` would accept a tree only for the rebase to > fail with > > update_ref failed for ref 'HEAD': cannot update ref 'HEAD': trying to write non-commit object da5497437fd67ca928333aab79c4b4b55036ea66 to branch 'HEAD' > > Using lookup_label() means do_reset() will now error out straight away > if its argument is not a commit. > > Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Very nice. >From reading the patch, I get the impression that this also addresses https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/199, i.e. allowing `reset <tag>`. Am I right? Dscho P.S.: FWIW here is my ACK for both patches. > sequencer.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh | 8 +++++++ > 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c > index e658df7e8ff..21f5032df0d 100644 > --- a/sequencer.c > +++ b/sequencer.c > @@ -3696,6 +3696,26 @@ static const char *reflog_message(struct replay_opts *opts, > return buf.buf; > } > > +static struct commit *lookup_label(const char *label, int len, > + struct strbuf *buf) > +{ > + struct commit *commit; > + > + strbuf_reset(buf); > + strbuf_addf(buf, "refs/rewritten/%.*s", len, label); > + commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(buf->buf); > + if (!commit) { > + /* fall back to non-rewritten ref or commit */ > + strbuf_splice(buf, 0, strlen("refs/rewritten/"), "", 0); > + commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(buf->buf); > + } > + > + if (!commit) > + error(_("could not resolve '%s'"), buf->buf); > + > + return commit; > +} > + > static int do_reset(struct repository *r, > const char *name, int len, > struct replay_opts *opts) > @@ -3727,6 +3747,7 @@ static int do_reset(struct repository *r, > oidcpy(&oid, &opts->squash_onto); > } else { > int i; > + struct commit *commit; > > /* Determine the length of the label */ > for (i = 0; i < len; i++) > @@ -3734,12 +3755,12 @@ static int do_reset(struct repository *r, > break; > len = i; > > - strbuf_addf(&ref_name, "refs/rewritten/%.*s", len, name); > - if (get_oid(ref_name.buf, &oid) && > - get_oid(ref_name.buf + strlen("refs/rewritten/"), &oid)) { > - ret = error(_("could not read '%s'"), ref_name.buf); > + commit = lookup_label(name, len, &ref_name); > + if (!commit) { > + ret = -1; > goto cleanup; > } > + oid = commit->object.oid; > } > > setup_unpack_trees_porcelain(&unpack_tree_opts, "reset"); > @@ -3786,26 +3807,6 @@ cleanup: > return ret; > } > > -static struct commit *lookup_label(const char *label, int len, > - struct strbuf *buf) > -{ > - struct commit *commit; > - > - strbuf_reset(buf); > - strbuf_addf(buf, "refs/rewritten/%.*s", len, label); > - commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(buf->buf); > - if (!commit) { > - /* fall back to non-rewritten ref or commit */ > - strbuf_splice(buf, 0, strlen("refs/rewritten/"), "", 0); > - commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(buf->buf); > - } > - > - if (!commit) > - error(_("could not resolve '%s'"), buf->buf); > - > - return commit; > -} > - > static int do_merge(struct repository *r, > struct commit *commit, > const char *arg, int arg_len, > diff --git a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh > index f351701fec2..fbbc4439bfe 100755 > --- a/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh > +++ b/t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh > @@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ test_expect_success '`reset` refuses to overwrite untracked files' ' > git rebase --abort > ' > > +test_expect_success '`reset` rejects trees' ' > + test_when_finished "test_might_fail git rebase --abort" && > + test_must_fail env GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="echo reset A^{tree} >" \ > + git rebase -i B C >out 2>err && > + grep "object .* is a tree" err && > + test_must_be_empty out > +' > + > test_expect_success 'failed `merge -C` writes patch (may be rescheduled, too)' ' > test_when_finished "test_might_fail git rebase --abort" && > git checkout -b conflicting-merge A && > -- > gitgitgadget > >