fast-export: Avoid dropping files from commits

When exporting a subset of commits on a branch that do not go back to a
root commit (e.g. master~2..master), we still want each exported commit to
have the same files in the exported tree as in the original tree.

Previously, when given such a range, we would omit master~2 as a parent of
master~1, but we would still diff against master~2 when selecting the list
of files to include in master~1.  This would result in only files that
had changed in the given range showing up in the resulting export.  In such
cases, we should diff master~1 against the root instead (i.e. use
diff_root_tree_sha1 instead of diff_tree_sha1).

There's a special case to consider here: incremental exports (i.e. exports
where the --import-marks flag is specified).  If master~2 is an imported
mark, then we still want to diff master~1 against master~2 when selecting
the list of files to include.

We can handle all cases, including the special case, by just checking
whether master~2 corresponds to a known object mark when deciding what to
diff against.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-fast-export.c b/builtin-fast-export.c
index fdf4ae9ebd..34a419c38e 100644
--- a/builtin-fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin-fast-export.c
@@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ static void handle_commit(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *rev)
 	if (message)
 		message += 2;
 
-	if (commit->parents) {
+	if (commit->parents &&
+	    get_object_mark(&commit->parents->item->object) != 0) {
 		parse_commit(commit->parents->item);
 		diff_tree_sha1(commit->parents->item->tree->object.sha1,
 			       commit->tree->object.sha1, "", &rev->diffopt);