From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:07:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9AE7ADCA-97F9-4857-AC55-76C4BD822C25@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170315225045.15788-3-gitster@pobox.com>
> On 16 Mar 2017, at 06:50, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "git name-rev" assigned a phony "far in the future" date to tips of
> refs that are not pointing at tag objects, and favored names based
> on a ref with the oldest date. This made it almost impossible for
> an unannotated tags and branches to be counted as a viable base,
> which was especially problematic when the command is run with the
> "--tags" option. If an unannotated tag that points at an ancient
> commit and an annotated tag that points at a much newer commit
> reaches the commit that is being named, the old unannotated tag was
> ignored.
>
> Update the "taggerdate" field of the rev-name structure, which is
> initialized from the tip of ref, to have the committer date if the
> object at the tip of ref is a commit, not a tag, so that we can
> optionally take it into account when doing "is this name better?"
> comparison logic.
>
> When "name-rev" is run without the "--tags" option, the general
> expectation is still to name the commit based on a tag if possible,
> but use non-tag refs as fallback, and tiebreak among these non-tag
> refs by favoring names with shorter hops from the tip. The use of a
> phony "far in the future" date in the original code was an effective
> way to ensure this expectation is held: a non-tag tip gets the same
> "far in the future" timestamp, giving precedence to tags, and among
> non-tag tips, names with shorter hops are preferred over longer
> hops, without taking the "taggerdate" into account. As we are
> taking over the "taggerdate" field to store the committer date for
> tips with commits:
>
> (1) keep the original logic when comparing names based on two refs
> both of which are from refs/tags/;
>
> (2) favoring a name based on a ref in refs/tags/ hierarchy over
> a ref outside the hierarchy;
>
> (3) between two names based on a ref both outside refs/tags/, give
> precedence to a name with shorter hops and use "taggerdate"
> only to tie-break.
>
> A change to t4202 is a natural consequence. The test creates a
> commit on a branch "side" and points at it with an unannotated tag
> "refs/tags/side-2". The original code couldn't decide which one to
> favor at all, and gave a name based on a branch (simply because
> refs/heads/side sorts earlier than refs/tags/side-2). Because the
> updated logic is taught to favor refs in refs/tags/ hierarchy, the
> the test is updated to expect to see tags/side-2 instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
A quick bisect indicates that this patch might break
t9807-git-p4-submit.sh 8 and 13. I haven't looked into
it further, yet.
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/211948406#L2152
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/211948406#L2460
Non-JS: https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/211948406/log.txt
- Lars
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-17 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-15 13:15 [PATCH 0/3] describe --contains sanity Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] describe: debug is incompatible with contains Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 10:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-prompt: add a describe style for any tags Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 10:56 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [RFD PATCH 3/3] name-rev: Allow lightweight tags and branch refs Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] Teach name-rev to pay more attention to lightweight tags Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 4:07 ` Lars Schneider [this message]
2017-03-17 5:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 5:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 17:09 ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-17 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-29 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] name-rev sanity Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] name-rev: provide debug output Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] name-rev sanity Junio C Hamano
2017-03-29 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-30 13:48 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-30 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] name-rev: provide debug output Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 18:02 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-03 14:46 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-04-03 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-20 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] describe: pass --debug down to name-rev Michael J Gruber
2017-03-17 11:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-17 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-16 0:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] Teach name-rev to pay more attention to lightweight tags Stefan Beller
2017-03-16 10:28 ` Jacob Keller
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