static const char *argv_checkout[] = {"checkout", "-q", NULL, "--", NULL};
static const char *argv_show_branch[] = {"show-branch", NULL, NULL};
+static const char *argv_update_ref[] = {"update-ref", "--no-deref", "BISECT_HEAD", NULL, NULL};
/* bits #0-15 in revision.h */
die("closing file %s: %s", filename, strerror(errno));
}
-static int bisect_checkout(char *bisect_rev_hex)
+static int bisect_checkout(char *bisect_rev_hex, int no_checkout)
{
int res;
mark_expected_rev(bisect_rev_hex);
argv_checkout[2] = bisect_rev_hex;
- res = run_command_v_opt(argv_checkout, RUN_GIT_CMD);
- if (res)
- exit(res);
+ if (no_checkout) {
+ argv_update_ref[3] = bisect_rev_hex;
+ if (run_command_v_opt(argv_update_ref, RUN_GIT_CMD))
+ die("update-ref --no-deref HEAD failed on %s",
+ bisect_rev_hex);
+ } else {
+ res = run_command_v_opt(argv_checkout, RUN_GIT_CMD);
+ if (res)
+ exit(res);
+ }
argv_show_branch[1] = bisect_rev_hex;
return run_command_v_opt(argv_show_branch, RUN_GIT_CMD);
* - If one is "skipped", we can't know but we should warn.
* - If we don't know, we should check it out and ask the user to test.
*/
-static void check_merge_bases(void)
+static void check_merge_bases(int no_checkout)
{
struct commit_list *result;
int rev_nr;
handle_skipped_merge_base(mb);
} else {
printf("Bisecting: a merge base must be tested\n");
- exit(bisect_checkout(sha1_to_hex(mb)));
+ exit(bisect_checkout(sha1_to_hex(mb), no_checkout));
}
}
* If a merge base must be tested by the user, its source code will be
* checked out to be tested by the user and we will exit.
*/
-static void check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad(const char *prefix)
+static void check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad(const char *prefix, int no_checkout)
{
const char *filename = git_path("BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK");
struct stat st;
/* Check if all good revs are ancestor of the bad rev. */
if (check_ancestors(prefix))
- check_merge_bases();
+ check_merge_bases(no_checkout);
/* Create file BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK. */
fd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY, 0600);
* We use the convention that exiting with an exit code 10 means that
* the bisection process finished successfully.
* In this case the calling shell script should exit 0.
+ *
+ * If no_checkout is non-zero, the bisection process does not
+ * checkout the trial commit but instead simply updates BISECT_HEAD.
*/
-int bisect_next_all(const char *prefix)
+int bisect_next_all(const char *prefix, int no_checkout)
{
struct rev_info revs;
struct commit_list *tried;
if (read_bisect_refs())
die("reading bisect refs failed");
- check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad(prefix);
+ check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad(prefix, no_checkout);
bisect_rev_setup(&revs, prefix, "%s", "^%s", 1);
revs.limited = 1;
"(roughly %d step%s)\n", nr, (nr == 1 ? "" : "s"),
steps, (steps == 1 ? "" : "s"));
- return bisect_checkout(bisect_rev_hex);
+ return bisect_checkout(bisect_rev_hex, no_checkout);
}