fast-export: avoid dying when filtering by paths and old tags exist

If --tag-of-filtered-object=rewrite is specified along with a set of paths to limit what is exported, then any tags pointing to old commits that do not contain any of those specified paths cause problems. Since the old tagged commit is not exported, fast-export attempts to rewrite such tags to an ancestor commit which was exported. If no such commit exists, then fast-export currently die()s. Five years after the tag rewriting logic was added to fast-export (see commit 2d8ad4691921, "fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tags", 2009-06-25), fast-import gained the ability to delete refs (see commit 4ee1b225b99f, "fast-import: add support to delete refs", 2014-04-20), so now we do have a valid option to rewrite the tag to. Delete these tags instead of dying. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Elijah Newren committed Nov 15, 2018 at 23:59 UTC 1f30c904b38552dccd90135334c342e17a1ed077
2 files changed +22 -3
builtin/fast-export.c
+6 -3
@@ -775,9 +775,12 @@ static void handle_tag(const char *name, struct tag *tag)
775 break;
776 if (!(p->object.flags & TREESAME))
777 break;
778 - if (!p->parents)
779 - die("can't find replacement commit for tag %s",
780 - oid_to_hex(&tag->object.oid));
778 + if (!p->parents) {
779 + printf("reset %s\nfrom %s\n\n",
780 + name, oid_to_hex(&null_oid));
781 + free(buf);
782 + return;
783 + }
784 p = p->parents->item;
785 }
786 tagged_mark = get_object_mark(&p->object);
t/t9350-fast-export.sh
+16
@@ -325,6 +325,22 @@ test_expect_success 'rewriting tag of filtered out object' '
325 )
326 '
327
328 +test_expect_success 'rewrite tag predating pathspecs to nothing' '
329 + test_create_repo rewrite_tag_predating_pathspecs &&
330 + (
331 + cd rewrite_tag_predating_pathspecs &&
332 +
333 + test_commit initial &&
334 +
335 + git tag -a -m "Some old tag" v0.0.0.0.0.0.1 &&
336 +
337 + test_commit bar &&
338 +
339 + git fast-export --tag-of-filtered-object=rewrite --all -- bar.t >output &&
340 + grep from.$ZERO_OID output
341 + )
342 +'
343 +
344 cat > limit-by-paths/expected << EOF
345 blob
346 mark :1