Subject: [PATCH] merge-ort: avoid assuming all renames detected

From: "Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:09:26 +0000

From: Elijah Newren <[email-masked]>

In commit 8b09a900a1 ("merge-ort: restart merge with cached renames to
reduce process entry cost", 2021-07-16), we noted that in the merge-ort
steps of
    collect_merge_info()
    detect_and_process_renames()
    process_entries()
that process_entries() was expensive, and we could often make it cheaper
by changing this to
    collect_merge_info()
    detect_and_process_renames()
    <cache all the renames, and restart>
    collect_merge_info()
    detect_and_process_renames()
    process_entries()
because the second collect_merge_info() would be cheaper (we could avoid
traversing into some directories), the second
detect_and_process_renames() would be free since we had already detected
all renames, and then process_entries() has far fewer entries to handle.

However, this was built on the assumption that the first
detect_and_process_renames() actually detected all potential renames.
If someone has merge.renameLimit set to some small value, that
assumption is violated which manifests later with the following message:

    $ git -c merge.renameLimit=1 rebase upstream
    ...
    git: merge-ort.c:546: clear_or_reinit_internal_opts: Assertion
    `renames->cached_pairs_valid_side == 0' failed.

Turn off this cache-renames-and-restart whenever we cannot detect all
renames, and add a testcase that would have caught this problem.

Reported-by: Taylor Blau <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <[email-masked]>
---
    merge-ort: avoid assuming all renames detected
    
    Fixes https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1194%2Fnewren%2Favoid-assertion-assuming-renames-found-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1194/newren/avoid-assertion-assuming-renames-found-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1194

 merge-ort.c                              |  4 ++
 t/t6429-merge-sequence-rename-caching.sh | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+)

diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index c3197970219..143d274f117 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -3060,6 +3060,10 @@ static int detect_and_process_renames(struct merge_options *opt,
 	trace2_region_enter("merge", "regular renames", opt->repo);
 	detection_run |= detect_regular_renames(opt, MERGE_SIDE1);
 	detection_run |= detect_regular_renames(opt, MERGE_SIDE2);
+	if (renames->needed_limit != 0) {
+		renames->cached_pairs_valid_side = 0;
+		renames->redo_after_renames = 0;
+	}
 	if (renames->redo_after_renames && detection_run) {
 		int i, side;
 		struct diff_filepair *p;
diff --git a/t/t6429-merge-sequence-rename-caching.sh b/t/t6429-merge-sequence-rename-caching.sh
index 035edc40b1e..f2bc8a7d2a2 100755
--- a/t/t6429-merge-sequence-rename-caching.sh
+++ b/t/t6429-merge-sequence-rename-caching.sh
@@ -697,4 +697,71 @@ test_expect_success 'caching renames only on upstream side, part 2' '
 	)
 '
 
+#
+# The following testcase just creates two simple renames (slightly modified
+# on both sides but without conflicting changes), and a directory full of
+# files that are otherwise uninteresting.  The setup is as follows:
+#
+#   base:     unrelated/<BUNCH OF FILES>
+#             numbers
+#             values
+#   upstream: modify: numbers
+#             modify: values
+#   topic:    add: unrelated/foo
+#             modify: numbers
+#             modify: values
+#             rename: numbers -> sequence
+#             rename: values -> progression
+#
+# This is a trivial rename case, but we're curious what happens with a very
+# low renameLimit interacting with the restart optimization trying to notice
+# that unrelated/ looks like a trivial merge candidate.
+#
+test_expect_success 'avoid assuming we detected renames' '
+	git init redo-weirdness &&
+	(
+		cd redo-weirdness &&
+
+		mkdir unrelated &&
+		for i in $(test_seq 1 10)
+		do
+			>unrelated/$i
+		done &&
+		test_seq  2 10 >numbers &&
+		test_seq 12 20 >values &&
+		git add numbers values unrelated/ &&
+		git commit -m orig &&
+
+		git branch upstream &&
+		git branch topic &&
+
+		git switch upstream &&
+		test_seq  1 10 >numbers &&
+		test_seq 11 20 >values &&
+		git add numbers &&
+		git commit -m "Some tweaks" &&
+
+		git switch topic &&
+
+		>unrelated/foo &&
+		test_seq  2 12 >numbers &&
+		test_seq 12 22 >values &&
+		git add numbers values unrelated/ &&
+		git mv numbers sequence &&
+		git mv values progression &&
+		git commit -m A &&
+
+		#
+		# Actual testing
+		#
+
+		git switch --detach topic^0 &&
+
+		test_must_fail git -c merge.renameLimit=1 rebase upstream &&
+
+		git ls-files -u >actual &&
+		! test_file_is_empty actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_done

base-commit: 1ffcbaa1a5f10c9f706314d77f88de20a4a498c2
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