merge-base: add tests for --is-ancestor
`git merge-base --is-ancestor A B` is used a lot in scripts but has no tests. Add some to t6010 covering its exit codes: 0 when A is an ancestor of B, 1 when it is not, and 128 (not 1) when given a bad argument. Also check that --is-ancestor and --all can't be combined, and that the resulting error names both options. Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Schuetz <nikolauspschuetz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nikolaus Schuetz committed
Jul 30, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
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t/t6010-merge-base.sh
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index 44c726ea39..21f09a678f 100755
--- a/t/t6010-merge-base.sh
+++ b/t/t6010-merge-base.sh
@@ -305,4 +305,35 @@ test_expect_success 'merge-base --octopus --all for complex tree' '
test_cmp expected actual
'
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor with an ancestor and a descendant' '
+ git merge-base --is-ancestor $E $A &&
+ test_expect_code 1 git merge-base --is-ancestor $A $E
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor treats a commit as its own ancestor' '
+ git merge-base --is-ancestor $A $A
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor with diverged commits' '
+ test_expect_code 1 git merge-base --is-ancestor $G $H &&
+ test_expect_code 1 git merge-base --is-ancestor $H $G
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor exits 128 on a bad commit' '
+ test_expect_code 128 git merge-base --is-ancestor $A no-such-commit &&
+ test_expect_code 128 git merge-base --is-ancestor no-such-commit $A
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor requires exactly two commits' '
+ test_expect_code 129 git merge-base --is-ancestor &&
+ test_expect_code 129 git merge-base --is-ancestor $A &&
+ test_expect_code 128 git merge-base --is-ancestor $E $A $B 2>err &&
+ test_grep ".--is-ancestor takes exactly two commits" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--is-ancestor and --all cannot be used together' '
+ test_expect_code 128 git merge-base --is-ancestor --all $E $A 2>err &&
+ test_grep "options .--is-ancestor. and .--all. cannot be used together" err
+'
+
test_done