am: avoid directory rename detection when calling recursive merge machinery
authorElijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:06:13 +0000 (00:06 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:58:59 +0000 (07:58 -0700)
Let's say you have the following three trees, where Base is from one commit
behind either master or branch:

Base : bar_v1, foo/{file1, file2, file3}
branch: bar_v2, foo/{file1, file2}, goo/file3
master: bar_v3, foo/{file1, file2, file3}

Using git-am (or am-based rebase) to apply the changes from branch onto
master results in the following tree:

Result: bar_merged, goo/{file1, file2, file3}

This is not what users want; they did not rename foo/ -> goo/, they only
renamed one file within that directory. The reason this happens is am
constructs fake trees (via build_fake_ancestor()) of the following form:

Base_bfa : bar_v1, foo/file3
branch_bfa: bar_v2, goo/file3

Combining these two trees with master's tree:

master: bar_v3, foo/{file1, file2, file3},

You can see that merge_recursive_generic() would see branch_bfa as renaming
foo/ -> goo/, and master as just adding both foo/file1 and foo/file2. As
such, it ends up with goo/{file1, file2, file3}

The core problem is that am does not have access to the original trees; it
can only construct trees using the blobs involved in the patch. As such,
it is not safe to perform directory rename detection within am -3.

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