Re: [BUG] merge-recursive triggered "BUG"

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> As a part of my today's merge, I used 'next' that contains b2c8c0a
> (merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip an update, actually skip it,
> 2011-02-28) to merge 'maint' into 'master' to propagate older releases up.
>
> It triggered a "BUG" per merged path, and I bisected this breakage down to
> the said commit. Luckily 'master' is not contaminated with the breakage,
> so I used it to finish today's work.

I just ran into this. It's not in a repo I can share however. But, why
did b2c8c0a make it into master with this known issue?

j.

> When I push out the result from today, you can reproduce it with
>
>    git checkout 0631623 ;# master to acquire changes from maint
>    git merge [-s recursive] fbcda3c
>
> I suspect that the new codepath introduced by b2c8c0a needs to pay
> attention to the merge depth (for example, does it make any sense at all
> to run lstat() when you are doing recursive common parent synthesis?), but
> I didn't dig into it.
>
> The command fails with this output:
>
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/add.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/apply.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/branch.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/checkout.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/commit.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/config.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/diff-files.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/diff.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/fast-export.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/grep.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/hash-object.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/init-db.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/log.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/merge.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/push.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/rerere.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'builtin/update-index.c'
> error: addinfo_cache failed for path 't/t7810-grep.sh'
> BUG: There are unmerged index entries:
> BUG: 1 builtin/add.cBUG: 2 builtin/add.cBUG: 3 builtin/add.cBUG: 1 builtin/apply.cBUG: 2 builtin/apply.cBUG: 3 builtin/apply.cBUG: 1 builtin/branch.cBUG: 2 builtin/branch.cBUG: 3 builtin/branch.cBUG: 1 builtin/checkout.cBUG: 2 builtin/checkout.cBUG: 3 builtin/checkout.cBUG: 1 builtin/commit.cBUG: 2 builtin/commit.cBUG: 3 builtin/commit.cBUG: 1 builtin/config.cBUG: 2 builtin/config.cBUG: 3 builtin/config.cBUG: 1 builtin/diff-files.cBUG: 2 builtin/diff-files.cBUG: 3 builtin/diff-files.cBUG: 1 builtin/diff.cBUG: 2 builtin/diff.cBUG: 3 builtin/diff.cBUG: 1 builtin/fast-export.cBUG: 2 builtin/fast-export.cBUG: 3 builtin/fast-export.cBUG: 1 builtin/grep.cBUG: 2 builtin/grep.cBUG: 3 builtin/grep.cBUG: 1 builtin/hash-object.cBUG: 2 builtin/hash-object.cBUG: 3 builtin/hash-object.cBUG: 1 builtin/init-db.cBUG: 2 builtin/init-db.cBUG: 3 builtin/init-db.cBUG: 1 builtin/log.cBUG: 2 builtin/log.cBUG: 3 builtin/log.cBUG: 1 builtin/merge.cBUG: 2 builtin/merge.cBUG: 3 builtin/merge.cBUG: 1 builtin/push.cBUG: 2 builtin/push.cBUG: 3 builtin/push.cBUG: 1 builtin/rerere.cBUG: 2 builtin/rerere.cBUG: 3 builtin/rerere.cBUG: 1 builtin/update-index.cBUG: 2 builtin/update-index.cBUG: 3 builtin/update-index.cBUG: 1 t/t7810-grep.shBUG: 2 t/t7810-grep.shBUG: 3 t/t7810-grep.shfatal: Bug in merge-recursive.c
>
>
> Thanks.
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