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From: Roland Conybeare <rconybeare@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Roland Conybeare <rconybeare@gmail•com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] subtree: fix cache_set failure on commit reachable by multiple paths
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 17:23:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260524212339.1493145-2-rconybeare@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260524212339.1493145-1-rconybeare@gmail.com>

When splitting a subtree, committs that do not intersect prefix
receive identity mapping (oldrev -> oldrev). If such commit
is reachable by multiple paths in the revision DAG, the cache_set()
function may be called twice for the same (oldrev -> newrev) pair.

This triggers fatal error "cache for <hash> already exists"

Bugfix is to make cache_set() idempotent when the same
(oldrev -> newrev) pair appears multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Roland Conybeare <rconybeare@gmail•com>
---
 contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
index 791fd8260c..64590e05e0 100755
--- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
+++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
@@ -343,7 +343,13 @@ cache_set () {
 		test "$oldrev" != "latest_new" &&
 		test -e "$cachedir/$oldrev"
 	then
-		die "fatal: cache for $oldrev already exists!"
+		existing=$(cat "$cachedir/$oldrev")
+		if test "$existing" = "$newrev"
+		then
+			return
+		else
+			die "fatal: cache for $oldrev already exists!"
+		fi
 	fi
 	echo "$newrev" >"$cachedir/$oldrev"
 }
-- 
2.50.1


      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-24 21:24 UTC|newest]

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2026-05-24 21:23 [PATCH 0/1] bugfix git subtree split Roland Conybeare
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