Re: [BUG] git-cherry false-positive on upstream new-line change at end-of-file

[Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de>]

Hi!

Because there was not a single reply to my report, I wonder whether
anybody read it. May I ping for attention, please?

Best regards,

Tilman


Am Do., 23. Juli 2020 um 16:42 Uhr schrieb Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de>:
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> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
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> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>
> I was working on two branches "master" and "feature". On "master" I
> "git cherry-pick feature" in order to pick the latest commit from
> "feature".
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>
> When I run "git cherry master feature" the picked commit is
> marked with "-".
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>
> When I run "git cherry master feature" the picked commit is
> marked with "+".
>
> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>
> Because the commit has just been picked, it should be marked as "-".
> The actual behavior claims the commit had not been picked.
>
> Anything else you want to add:
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> It is important to note that the only change, I did on master after
> branching "feature", was to add a missing newline at the end of the
> file that I changed on "feature".
>
> If I replay the same scenario with a file that has a newline at the end
> and I am only adding a newline at the beginning of it on master, cherry
> gives the expected "-" after cherry-picking.
>
> Please see this simple example:
>
> > git clone https://github.com/tvogel/cherry-broken.git
> > cd cherry-broken
>
> # see broken behaviour:
> > git cherry origin/master origin/feature
> + 26f77def8f1380cc3fd08ebc3f70652da79f1a2e
>
> # check that patch-id is actually the same:
> > git show --patch origin/master | git patch-id
> ca5d666a572ec32bff9cec17b97d611316f89236
> 0725b090dd82f2e6f9949ce853778391e60b08d1
> > git show --patch origin/feature | git patch-id
> ca5d666a572ec32bff9cec17b97d611316f89236
> 26f77def8f1380cc3fd08ebc3f70652da79f1a2e
>
> # see OK behaviour:
> > git cherry origin/master-ok origin/feature-ok
> - 7ce2c0ecd3024c04bcf7b78d332841b2e791e06f
>
> In the "*-ok" branches, the file has newline at the end from the beginning
> and "master" only inserts a newline at the beginning of the file. "feature-ok"
> has the same change as "feature" (content-wise).
>
>
> Please review the rest of the bug report below.
> You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.
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>
> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.27.0
> cpu: x86_64
> no commit associated with this build
> sizeof-long: 8
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> uname: Linux 5.7.5-1-default #1 SMP Tue Jun 23 06:00:46 UTC 2020 (a1775d0)
> x86_64
> compiler info: gnuc: 10.1
> libc info: glibc: 2.31
>
>
> [Enabled Hooks]
> not run from a git repository - no hooks to show
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>