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author | Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> | 2007-04-27 01:36:24 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-04-27 07:59:49 +0400 |
commit | 024e5b31af6f06d39542ab1a44de358d7734388b (patch) | |
tree | 77847ad5d6b88701f40d583f75173c39ca33d261 /contrib/hooks | |
parent | 8e404f82abdfd912ad43c6fae7c218ff75a5d122 (diff) |
post-receive-email example hook: detect rewind-only updates and output sensible message
Sometimes a non-fast-forward update doesn't add new commits, it merely
removes old commits. This patch adds support for detecting that and
outputting a more correct message.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/hooks')
-rw-r--r-- | contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 77 |
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index edb30f6f0f..e175b426a4 100644 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -327,36 +327,67 @@ generate_update_branch_email() if [ -z "$fastforward" ]; then echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)" else + # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev is a + # subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a fast-forward, + # a rewind + # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision, this is + # a rewind and addition. + + # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't happened, + # we set a flag to indicate that no log printout is required. + echo "" - echo "This update added new revisions after undoing old revisions. That is to" - echo "say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This" - echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a" - echo "repository containing something like this:" - echo "" - echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)" - echo " \\" - echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)" - echo "" - echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all" - echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N" - echo "branch from the common base, B." + + # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and compare + # it with newrev + baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev) + rewind_only="" + if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then + echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at" + echo "a previous point in the repository history." + echo "" + echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)" + echo " \\" + echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)" + echo "" + echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference" + echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository." + rewind_only=1 + else + echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is" + echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This" + echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository" + echo "containing something like this:" + echo "" + echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)" + echo " \\" + echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)" + echo "" + echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all" + echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N" + echo "branch from the common base, B." + fi fi echo "" - echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have" - echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those" - echo "revisions in full, below." + if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then + echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have" + echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those" + echo "revisions in full, below." - echo "" - echo $LOGBEGIN - git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) | - git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev + echo "" + echo $LOGBEGIN + git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) | + git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev - # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually outputted - # anything, so that we can issue a "no new revisions added by this - # update" message + # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually outputted + # anything, so that we can issue a "no new revisions added by this + # update" message - echo $LOGEND + echo $LOGEND + else + echo "No new revisions were added by this update." + fi # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision. This # is to show the truth of what happened in this change. There's no point |