| commit | 8791bf18414a37205127e184c04cad53a43aeff1 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | Fri Oct 02 14:58:56 2020 +0000 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Fri Oct 02 10:26:31 2020 -0700 |
| tree | b404b1112ed294556840c1ebf42fd3766ee4ee4e | |
| parent | 47ae905ffb98cc4d4fd90083da6bc8dab55d9ecc [diff] |
commit-reach: fix in_merge_bases_many bug Way back in f9b8908b (commit.c: use generation numbers for in_merge_bases(), 2018-05-01), a heuristic was used to short-circuit the in_merge_bases() walk. This works just fine as long as the caller is checking only two commits, but when there are multiple, there is a possibility that this heuristic is _very wrong_. Some code moves since then has changed this method to repo_in_merge_bases_many() inside commit-reach.c. The heuristic computes the minimum generation number of the "reference" list, then compares this number to the generation number of the "commit". In a recent topic, a test was added that used in_merge_bases_many() to test if a commit was reachable from a number of commits pulled from a reflog. However, this highlighted the problem: if any of the reference commits have a smaller generation number than the given commit, then the walk is skipped _even if there exist some with higher generation number_. This heuristic is wrong! It must check the MAXIMUM generation number of the reference commits, not the MINIMUM. This highlights a testing gap. t6600-test-reach.sh covers many methods in commit-reach.c, including in_merge_bases() and get_merge_bases_many(), but since these methods either restrict to two input commits or actually look for the full list of merge bases, they don't check this heuristic! Add a possible input to "test-tool reach" that tests in_merge_bases_many() and add tests to t6600-test-reach.sh that cover this heuristic. This includes cases for the reference commits having generation above and below the generation of the input commit, but also having maximum generation below the generation of the input commit. The fix itself is to swap min_generation with a max_generation in repo_in_merge_bases_many(). Reported-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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