Me again, On 2015-10-09 11:50, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On 2015-10-09 03:40, Paul Tan wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes: >>> >>>> Brendan Forster noticed that we no longer see the helpful message after >>>> a failed `git pull --rebase`. It turns out that the builtin `am` calls >>>> the recursive merge function directly, not via a separate process. >>>> >>>> But that function was not really safe to be called that way, as it >>>> die()s pretty liberally. >> >> I'm not too familiar with the merge-recursive.c code, but I was under >> the impression that it only called die() under fatal conditions. In >> common use cases, such as merge conflicts, it just errors out and the >> helpful error message does get printed. Is there a reproduction recipe >> for this? > > Yes. Sorry, I should have added that as part of the patch series. > Actually, I should have written it *before* making those patches. > Because it revealed that the underlying problem is completely > different: *Normally* you are correct, if `pull --rebase` fails with a > merge conflict, the advice is shown. > > The problem occurs with CR/LF.
I finally have that test case working, took way longer than I wanted to: -- snip -- Subject: [PATCH 3/2] Verify that `git pull --rebase` shows the helpful advice when failing Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> Date: Fri Oct 9 11:15:30 2015 +0200 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh index a0013ee..bce332f 100755 --- a/t/t5520-pull.sh +++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh @@ -237,6 +237,18 @@ test_expect_success '--rebase' ' test new = "$(git show HEAD:file2)" ' +test_expect_success 'failed --rebase shows advice' ' + git checkout -b diverging && + test_commit attributes .gitattributes "* text=auto" attrs && + sha1="$(printf "1\\r\\n" | git hash-object -w --stdin)" && + git update-index --cacheinfo 0644 $sha1 file && + git commit -m v1-with-cr && + git checkout -f -b fails-to-rebase HEAD^ && + test_commit v2-without-cr file "2" file2-lf && + test_must_fail git pull --rebase . diverging 2>err >out && + grep "When you have resolved this problem" out +' + test_expect_success '--rebase fails with multiple branches' ' git reset --hard before-rebase && test_must_fail git pull --rebase . copy master 2>err && -- So the reason is that `unpack_trees()` fails with error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: file Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge. then returns -1 to its caller, `git_merge_trees()`, which still returns -1 in turn to *its* caller, `merge_trees()`, which then gives up by die()ing: Aborting I think there is more than one fix necessary to truly address the issue: the underlying problem is that Git handles *committed* CR/LF really badly when the corresponding `.gitattributes` label the file as `text=auto`. In fact, those files are labeled as modified in `git status`. If you change the line endings of them, they are labeled as modified in `git status`. And after a `git reset --hard`, they are *still* labeled as modified in `git status`. I will try to make some time to continue to work on this later today, but in the meantime I would be relatively happy if we could introduce that gentle flag. It is really a very gentle patch, after all, much gentler than reverting to the heavy-handed spawning of `merge-recursive`. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html