I recently made the CLI remove hidden heads when a transaction is
committed (38474a9). Let's move that to `Transaction::commit()`, so
the library crate becomes more similar to how the CLI behaves and more
similar to our evolution-less future (#32).
The next patch would otherwise make this test fail because
"transaction 2" tries to point a branch to a commit that's not visible
(because it's created by the concurrent "transaction 1").
Same reasoning as the previous change.
With this change, I believe we now record all rewritten and abandoned
commits correctly. We're now almost ready to switch the CLI away from
using evolution for automatically rebasing commits.
This is part of removing support for evolution (#32). Since
`CommitBuilder` now records rewritten commits in `MutableRepo`, we can
use that recorded information to automatically rebase descendants.
When we remove support for evolution (#32), we need to still make it
easy for application code to rebase descendants of rewritten and
abandoned commits. The way applications currently do that is by using
e.g. `CommitBuilder::for_rewrite_from()` followed by
`evolve_orphans()`. This patch puts some bookkeeping in `MutableRepo`
for rewritten and abandoned commits, along with a function for
creating a `DescendantRebaser` based on it. I'll then make
`CommitBuilder` record rewritten commits there.
If you rewrite a change twice, from A to A' to A'', then undo the
operation that created A', you'll end up with a repo where A'' refers
to commit (A') that's not reachable from any head in the view. We
currently crash when that happens. This change fixes the
crash. Undoing the A' operation now instead produces a state where A
and A'' are divergent. That at least makes some sense.
This may not seem important since I'm working on removing support for
evolution (#32), but I wanted to get it fixed in order to help with
the transition off of evolution. Specifically, I want to be able to
start removing old heads more freely.
This closes#28.
In the recent switch away from `git2::Remote::fetch()`, I passed
`git2::AutotagOption::All`, which caused cloning of e.g. the `clap`
repo to fail like this:
```
Error: Fetch failed: Error { code: -1, klass: 4, message: "target OID for the reference doesn't exist on the repository" }
```
This commit changes from `All` to `Unspecified`, which respects the
remote's configuration.
The default branch relies on checking the value of `HEAD`. The `empty_git_commit` function updates the ref `refs/heads/main`, but since `HEAD` was never updated to point to that ref, the default branch can't be determined. The fix is to explicitly set `HEAD`.
Personally, this test failed reliably for me on macOS. I don't know why this behavior would be non-deterministic on other platforms.
It seems it wasn't Windows that behaved differently when it comes
getting the remote's default branch; the test failed on Ubuntu
too.
The documentation for `Remote::default_branch()` says that it can be
called even after the connection has been closed, but let's see if
calling it while the connection is open helps anyway. To do that, we
have to replicate what `Remote::fetch()` does.
Descendants of abandoned commits should be rebased onto their parents,
or the rewritten parents if they had been rewritten. This patch
teaches `DescendantRebaser` to do that. It updates `jj rebase -r` to
use the functionality. I plan to also use it in `jj abandon`
(naturally, given the name), and for rebasing descendants of deleted
refs imported from `jj git refresh/fetch/push`.
The fact that `DescendantRebaser` visits some commits that don't need
to be rebased is mostly an implementation detail. I can't think of a
reason that callers would care about these commits.
The command's help text says "Abandon a revision", which I think is a
good indication that the command's name should be `abandon`. This
patch renames the command and other user-facing occurrences of the
word. The remaining occurrences should be removed when I remove
support for evolution.
This patch moves the function for updating branches after rewrite from
`commands.rs` into `rewrite.rs`.
It also changes the function to update branches even if they were
conflicted or become conflicted. I think that seems better than
leaving branches on old commits. For example, let's say you have start
with this:
```
C main
|
B origin@main
|
A
```
You now pull from origin, which has updated the main branch from B to
B'. We apply that change to both the remote branch and the local
branch, which results in a conflict in the local branch:
```
C main?
|
B B' main? origin@main
|/
A
```
If you now rewrite C to C', the conflicted main branch will still
point to C, which is just weird. This patch changes that so the
conflicted side of main gets repointed to C'.
I also refactored the code to reuse our existing
`MutableRepo::merge_single_ref()`, which improves the behavior in
several cases, such as the conflict-resolution case in the last test
case.
As the updates test case shows, when rebasing forward, we missed
commits that fork off from the section between the source and the
destination.
As part of the fix, I also restructured the code a bit to prepare for
support for rebasing descendants of multiple rewritten commits.
It turns out that `FETCH_HEAD` is not the remote's `HEAD` (it's
actually not even a normal symbolic ref; it contains many lines of
commits and names). We're supposed to ask the remote for its default
branch instead. That's what this patch does.
It's annoying to have to add `--branch main` every time I push to
GitHub.
Maybe we should make it push only the current branch by default, but
we don't even have a concept of a current branch yet...
Before this change, you could end up with an index segment with 10
commits, then a child segment with 9 commits, then another child with
8 commits, and so on. That's not what I had intended. This changes
makes it so we squash if a segment has more than half as many commits
as its parent instead.
We have had support for ignores via `.gitignore` files since
3b326a942c, and we haven't had the problem with the temporary
`.git/` directory created by libgit2 since 88f7f4732b.
Git doesn't want `.git` entries in its trees, so at least when using
the Git backend, we need to ignore such paths. Let's just ignore
`.git` paths regardless of backend to keep it simple.
Closes#24.
When I added the function for rebasing descendants, I forgot to call
the existing `rebase()` function and instead simply created a new
commit with the new parents but the old contents.
This should be useful in lots of places. For example, `jj rebase -r`
currently rebases all descendants, because that's what the auto-evolve
feature does. I think it would be nice to instead copy from
Mercurial's `-s` flag for also rebasing descendants. Then `jj rebase
-r` can be made to pull a commit out of a stack, rebasing descendants
onto the rebased commit's parents. I also intend to use this
functionality for rebasing descendants when remote branches have been
rewritten.
The auto-rebasing of descendants doesn't work if you have an open
commit checked out, which means that you may still end up with orphans
in that case (though that's usually a short-lived problem since they
get rebased when you close the commit). I'm also about to make
branches update to successors, but that also doesn't work when the
branch is on a working copy commit that gets rewritten. To fix this
problem, I've decided to let the caller of `WorkingCopy::commit()`
responsible for the transaction.
I expect that some of the code that this change moves from the lib
crate to the cli crate will later move back into the lib crate in some
form.
With this change, we no longer fail if the user moves a branch
sideways or backwards and then push.
The push should ideally only succeed if the remote branch is where we
thought it was (like `git push --force-with-lease`), but that requires
rust-lang/git2-rs#733 to be fixed first.
Otherwise remote-tracking branches just pile up.
It seems that both git and libgit2 remove the remote-tracking branch
when you push a deletion, so `jj branch --delete foo; jj git push
--branch foo` already sees `foo` disappear locally as well. However,
if a branch has been deleted on the remote, we would never know before
this change.
