This happens when git merge is run to merge multiple commits that are
descendants of current HEAD (or are HEAD). We've hit this while updating
master to origin/master but accidentaly we called (while being on master):
$ git merge master origin/master
Here is a minimal testcase:
$ git init a && cd a
$ echo a >a && git add a
$ git commit -minitial
$ echo b >a && git add a
$ git commit -msecond
$ git checkout master^
$ git merge master master
Fast-forwarding to: master
Already up-to-date with master
Merge made by the 'octopus' strategy.
a | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
$ git cat-file commit HEAD
tree
eebfed94e75e7760540d1485c740902590a00332
parent
bd679e85202280b263e20a57639a142fa14c2c64
author Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
1329132996 +0100
committer Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
1329132996 +0100
Merge branches 'master' and 'master' into HEAD
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_tick &&
git commit -m second &&
git tag c1 &&
- git branch test
+ git branch test &&
+ echo third >file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m third &&
+ git tag c2
'
test_expect_success 'merge -s recursive up-to-date' '
'
+test_expect_failure 'merge fast-forward octopus' '
+
+ git reset --hard c0 &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git merge c1 c2
+ expect=$(git rev-parse c2) &&
+ current=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+ test "$expect" = "$current"
+'
+
test_done
'
cat >expected <<\EOF
-Already up-to-date with c4
-Trying simple merge with c5
-Merge made by the 'octopus' strategy.
+Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
c5.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 c5.c
EOF
-test_expect_success 'merge up-to-date output uses pretty names' '
- git merge c4 c5 >actual &&
- test_cmp actual expected
+test_expect_failure 'merge reduces irrelevant remote heads' '
+ GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY=0 git merge c4 c5 >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
'
cat >expected <<\EOF
test $(git rev-parse HEAD^1) = $(git rev-parse E2) &&
test $(git rev-parse HEAD^2) = $(git rev-parse I2)
'
+
+test_expect_success 'fast-forward to redundant refs' '
+ git reset --hard c0 &&
+ git merge c4 c5
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'verify merge result' '
+ test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse c5)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'merge up-to-date redundant refs' '
+ git reset --hard c5 &&
+ git merge c0 c4
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'verify merge result' '
+ test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse c5)
+'
+
test_done