From: Daniel Hahler <genml+git-2014@thequod•de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git: regression with mergetool and answering "n" (backport fix / add tests)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:19:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C24A4B.3000909@thequod.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <549CB5ED.5040804@thequod.de>
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Hi,
I am a bit surprised that this bug still exists in "maint" / v2.2.2.
Cherry-picking/merging 0ddedd4 fixes it.
Regards,
Daniel.
On 26.12.2014 02:12, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> sorry for the confusion - the patch / fix I've mentioned was meant to be
> applied on the commit that caused the regression and not current master.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> On 26.12.2014 02:00, David Aguilar wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:08:34PM +0100, Daniel Hahler wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this is in reply to the commits from David:
>>>
>>> commit 0ddedd4d6b9b3e8eb3557d8ed28e1a0b354a25f8
>>> Refs: v2.2.0-60-g0ddedd4
>>> Merge: e886efd 1e86d5b
>>> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
>>> AuthorDate: Fri Dec 12 14:31:39 2014 -0800
>>> Commit: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
>>> CommitDate: Fri Dec 12 14:31:39 2014 -0800
>>>
>>> Merge branch 'da/difftool-mergetool-simplify-reporting-status'
>>>
>>> Code simplification.
>>>
>>> * da/difftool-mergetool-simplify-reporting-status:
>>> mergetools: stop setting $status in merge_cmd()
>>> mergetool: simplify conditionals
>>> difftool--helper: add explicit exit statement
>>> mergetool--lib: remove use of $status global
>>> mergetool--lib: remove no-op assignment to $status from setup_user_tool
>>>
>>> I've ran into a problem, where "git mergetool" (using vimdiff) would add
>>> the changes to the index, although you'd answered "n" after not changing/saving
>>> the merged file.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads-up.
>>
>> Do you perhaps have mergetool.vimdiff.trustExitCode defined, or
>> a similar setting?
>>
>> If you saw the prompt then it should have aborted right after
>> you answered "n".
>>
>> The very last thing merge_cmd() for vimdiff does is call
>> check_unchanged(). We'll come back to check_unchanged() later.
>>
>> I tried to reproduce this issue. Here's a transcript:
>>
>> ....
>> $ git status -s
>> UU file.txt
>>
>> $ git mergetool -t vimdiff file.txt
>> Merging:
>> file.txt
>>
>> Normal merge conflict for 'file.txt':
>> {local}: modified file
>> {remote}: modified file
>> 4 files to edit
>> #### Enter :qall inside vim
>> file.txt seems unchanged.
>> Was the merge successful? [y/n] n
>> merge of file.txt failed
>> Continue merging other unresolved paths (y/n) ? n
>>
>> $ git status -s
>> UU file.txt
>> ....
>>
>> That seemed to work fine. Any clues?
>> More notes below...
>>
>>> This regression has been introduced in:
>>>
>>> commit 99474b6340dbcbe58f6c256fdee231cbadb060f4
>>> Author: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>
>>> Date: Fri Nov 14 13:33:55 2014 -0800
>>>
>>> difftool: honor --trust-exit-code for builtin tools
>>>
>>> run_merge_tool() was not setting $status, which prevented the
>>> exit code for builtin tools from being forwarded to the caller.
>>>
>>> Capture the exit status and add a test to guarantee the behavior.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Adria Farres <14farresa@gmail•com>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> index c45a020..cce4f8c 100644
>>> --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ run_merge_tool () {
>>> else
>>> run_diff_cmd "$1"
>>> fi
>>> + status=$?
>>> return $status
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> My fix has been the following, but I agree that the changes from David
>>> are much better in general.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> index cce4f8c..fa9acb1 100644
>>> --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
>>> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ check_unchanged () {
>>> esac
>>> done
>>> fi
>>> + return $status
>>> }
>>
>> I don't think this fix does anything.
>> Here is all of check_unchanged() for context:
>>
>> check_unchanged () {
>> if test "$MERGED" -nt "$BACKUP"
>> then
>> return 0
>> else
>> while true
>> do
>> echo "$MERGED seems unchanged."
>> printf "Was the merge successful? [y/n] "
>> read answer || return 1
>> case "$answer" in
>> y*|Y*) return 0 ;;
>> n*|N*) return 1 ;;
>> esac
>> done
>> fi
>> }
>>
>> The addition of "return $status" after the "fi" in the above fix
>> won't do anything because that code is unreachable.
>> We either return 0 or 1.
>>
>>> I haven't verified if it really fixes the regression, but if it does it
>>> should get backported into the branches where the regression is present.
>>
>> Also, the $status variable doesn't even exist anymore, so the
>> fix is suspect.
>>
>> What platform are you on?
>>
>>> Also, there should be some tests for this.
>>
>> I don't disagree with that ;-)
>>
>> Let me know if you have any clues. I don't see anything obvious.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>
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2014-12-23 19:08 git: regression with mergetool and answering "n" (backport fix / add tests) Daniel Hahler
2014-12-26 1:00 ` David Aguilar
2014-12-26 1:12 ` Daniel Hahler
2015-01-23 13:19 ` Daniel Hahler [this message]
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