Re: [PATCH] contrib/subtree bugfix: Crash if FETCH_HEAD is tag

[James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>]

After a closer look, it seems the initial patch wasn't correctly sent
to the list. Please disregard, I'm re-sending the patch entirely.

Regards,
James Denholm.

On 8 May 2014 07:53, James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 May 2014 16:33:32 GMT+10:00, James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>cmd_add_commit() is passed FETCH_HEAD by cmd_add_repository, which is
>>then rev-parsed into an object ID. However, if the user is fetching a
>>tag rather than a branch HEAD, such as by executing:
>>
>>$ git subtree add -P oldGit https://github.com/git/git.git tags/v1.8.0
>>
>>The object ID is a tag and is never peeled, and the git commit-tree
>>call
>>(line 561) slaps us in the face because it doesn't handle tag IDs.
>>
>>Because peeling a committish ID doesn't do anything if it's already a
>>commit, fix by peeling[1] the object ID before assigning it to $rev, as
>>per the patch.
>>
>>[*1*]: Via peel_committish(), from git:git-sh-setup.sh
>>
>>Reported-by: Kevin Cagle <kcagle@micron.com>
>>Diagnosed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>>Signed-off-by: James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>
>>---
>>NB: This bug doesn't surface when using --squash, as $rev is reassigned
>>to the squash commit via new_squash_commit before git commit-tree sees
>>it (though for simplicity, new_squash_commit now also sees the peeled
>>ID).
>>
>>Also doesn't surface when using "git subtree merge", as git merge can
>>handle tag objects.
>>
>>On a side note, if merging a tag without --squash, git merge recognises
>>that it's a tag and adds a note to the merge commit body. It may be
>>worth mimicking this when using "subtree merge --squash" or
>>"subtree add".
>>
>> contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>index dc59a91..9453dae 100755
>>--- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>+++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ cmd_add_commit()
>> {
>>       revs=$(git rev-parse $default --revs-only "$@") || exit $?
>>       set -- $revs
>>-      rev="$1"
>>+      rev=$(peel_committish "$1")
>>
>>       debug "Adding $dir as '$rev'..."
>>       git read-tree --prefix="$dir" $rev || exit $?
>
> I know that subtree isn't exactly the most popular or exciting part of
> the project at the moment, but given that this is adding a subtree based
> on an annotated tag is a reasonably sensible operation and (to me) the
> fix seems reasonably trivial, could I get some eyes on this?
>
> Regards,
> James Denholm.