pull: fast-forward "pull --rebase=true"

"git pull --rebase" always runs "git rebase" after fetching the commit to serve as the new base, even when the new base is a descendant of the current HEAD, i.e. we haven't done any work. In such a case, we can instead fast-forward to the new base without invoking the rebase process. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Jun 29, 2016 at 10:22 UTC 33b842a1e9bf28bcffe953ad9dcdbb0561336314
2 files changed +35 -4
builtin/pull.c
+18 -4
@@ -878,10 +878,24 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
878 if (merge_heads.nr > 1)
879 die(_("Cannot merge multiple branches into empty head."));
880 return pull_into_void(*merge_heads.sha1, curr_head);
881 - } else if (opt_rebase) {
882 - if (merge_heads.nr > 1)
883 - die(_("Cannot rebase onto multiple branches."));
881 + }
882 + if (opt_rebase && merge_heads.nr > 1)
883 + die(_("Cannot rebase onto multiple branches."));
884 +
885 + if (opt_rebase) {
886 + struct commit_list *list = NULL;
887 + struct commit *merge_head, *head;
888 +
889 + head = lookup_commit_reference(orig_head);
890 + commit_list_insert(head, &list);
891 + merge_head = lookup_commit_reference(merge_heads.sha1[0]);
892 + if (is_descendant_of(merge_head, list)) {
893 + /* we can fast-forward this without invoking rebase */
894 + opt_ff = "--ff-only";
895 + return run_merge();
896 + }
897 return run_rebase(curr_head, *merge_heads.sha1, rebase_fork_point);
885 - } else
898 + } else {
899 return run_merge();
900 + }
901 }
t/t5520-pull.sh
+17
@@ -237,6 +237,23 @@ test_expect_success '--rebase' '
237 test new = "$(git show HEAD:file2)"
238 '
239
240 +test_expect_success '--rebase fast forward' '
241 + git reset --hard before-rebase &&
242 + git checkout -b ff &&
243 + echo another modification >file &&
244 + git commit -m third file &&
245 +
246 + git checkout to-rebase &&
247 + git pull --rebase . ff &&
248 + test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse ff)" &&
249 +
250 + # The above only validates the result. Did we actually bypass rebase?
251 + git reflog -1 >reflog.actual &&
252 + sed "s/^[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]*/OBJID/" reflog.actual >reflog.fuzzy &&
253 + echo "OBJID HEAD@{0}: pull --rebase . ff: Fast-forward" >reflog.expected &&
254 + test_cmp reflog.expected reflog.fuzzy
255 +'
256 +
257 test_expect_success '--rebase fails with multiple branches' '
258 git reset --hard before-rebase &&
259 test_must_fail git pull --rebase . copy master 2>err &&