merge-recursive: avoid incorporating uncommitted changes in a merge
authorElijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:19:07 +0000 (11:19 -0800)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:20:38 +0000 (12:20 -0800)
commit65170c07d466b18364e0d2b6a360900c073b600f
treea49f75c8833813cf08d9c6b81a3bc4f6c7eafd24
parentb101793c431b858e49b909bb309a87145fb7348c
merge-recursive: avoid incorporating uncommitted changes in a merge

builtin/merge.c contains this important requirement for merge strategies:
/*
 * At this point, we need a real merge.  No matter what strategy
 * we use, it would operate on the index, possibly affecting the
 * working tree, and when resolved cleanly, have the desired
 * tree in the index -- this means that the index must be in
 * sync with the head commit.  The strategies are responsible
 * to ensure this.
 */

merge-recursive does not do this check directly, instead it relies on
unpack_trees() to do it.  However, merge_trees() has a special check for
the merge branch exactly matching the merge base; when it detects that
situation, it returns early without calling unpack_trees(), because it
knows that the HEAD commit already has the correct result.  Unfortunately,
it didn't check that the index matched HEAD, so after it returned, the
outer logic ended up creating a merge commit that included something
other than HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-recursive.c
t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh