merge-recursive: D/F conflicts where was_a_dir/file -> was_a_dir

In merge-recursive.c, whenever there was a rename where a file name on one
side of the rename matches a directory name on the other side of the merge,
then the very first check that

  string_list_has_string(&o->current_directory_set, ren1_dst)

would trigger forcing it into marking it as a rename/directory conflict.

However, if the path is only renamed on one side and a simple three-way
merge between the separate files resolves cleanly, then we don't need to
mark it as a rename/directory conflict.  So, we can simply move the check
for rename/directory conflicts after we've verified that there isn't a
rename/rename conflict and that a threeway content merge doesn't work.

This changes the particular error message one gets in the case where the
directory name that a file on one side of the rename matches is not also
part of the rename pair.  For example, with commits containing the files:

  COMMON    -> (HEAD,           MERGE )
  ---------    ---------------  -------
  sub/file1 -> (sub/file1,      newsub)
  <NULL>    -> (newsub/newfile, <NULL>)

then previously when one tried to merge MERGE into HEAD, one would get

  CONFLICT (rename/directory): Rename sub/file1->newsub in HEAD directory newsub added in merge
  Renaming sub/file1 to newsub~HEAD instead
  Adding newsub/newfile
  Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
After this patch, the error message will instead become:
  Removing newsub
  Adding newsub/newfile
  CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name newsub in merge. Adding newsub as newsub~HEAD
  Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

That makes more sense to me, because git can't know that there's a conflict
until after it's tried resolving paths involving newsub/newfile to see if
they are still in the way at the end (and if newsub/newfile is not in the
way at the end, there should be no conflict at all, which did not hold with
git previously).

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

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 20e1779428ee553a940592c09bbabe9ca9800a39..5ea6d115071f6c60ba17b9f867dd1dac52527355 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -935,14 +935,7 @@ static int process_renames(struct merge_options *o,
 
                        try_merge = 0;
 
-                       if (string_list_has_string(&o->current_directory_set, ren1_dst)) {
-                               clean_merge = 0;
-                               output(o, 1, "CONFLICT (rename/directory): Rename %s->%s in %s "
-                                      " directory %s added in %s",
-                                      ren1_src, ren1_dst, branch1,
-                                      ren1_dst, branch2);
-                               conflict_rename_dir(o, ren1, branch1);
-                       } else if (sha_eq(src_other.sha1, null_sha1)) {
+                       if (sha_eq(src_other.sha1, null_sha1)) {
                                clean_merge = 0;
                                output(o, 1, "CONFLICT (rename/delete): Rename %s->%s in %s "
                                       "and deleted in %s",
@@ -1034,6 +1027,13 @@ static int process_renames(struct merge_options *o,
                                        if (!ren1->dst_entry->stages[2].mode !=
                                            !ren1->dst_entry->stages[3].mode)
                                                ren1->dst_entry->processed = 0;
+                               } else if (string_list_has_string(&o->current_directory_set, ren1_dst)) {
+                                       clean_merge = 0;
+                                       output(o, 1, "CONFLICT (rename/directory): Rename %s->%s in %s "
+                                              " directory %s added in %s",
+                                              ren1_src, ren1_dst, branch1,
+                                              ren1_dst, branch2);
+                                       conflict_rename_dir(o, ren1, branch1);
                                } else {
                                        if (mfi.merge || !mfi.clean)
                                                output(o, 1, "Renaming %s => %s", ren1_src, ren1_dst);

diff --git a/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh b/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
index eb5826f30ecd8ccd7fc7514a677ed74b71a100a3..948ca1bce66cab317bf74984b22384f2625418c1 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
+++ b/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ test_expect_success 'Cherry-pick succeeds with was_a_dir/file -> was_a_dir (reso
        git cherry-pick --strategy=resolve simple
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'Cherry-pick succeeds with was_a_dir/file -> was_a_dir (recursive)' '
+test_expect_success 'Cherry-pick succeeds with was_a_dir/file -> was_a_dir (recursive)' '
        git reset --hard &&
        git checkout -q nick-testcase^0 &&
        git cherry-pick --strategy=recursive simple
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ test_expect_success 'Cherry-pick with rename to different D/F conflict succeeds
        git cherry-pick --strategy=resolve mergeme
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'Cherry-pick with rename to different D/F conflict succeeds (recursive)' '
+test_expect_success 'Cherry-pick with rename to different D/F conflict succeeds (recursive)' '
        git reset --hard &&
        git checkout -q newhead^0 &&
        git cherry-pick --strategy=recursive mergeme