merge: add '--continue' option as a synonym for 'git commit'

Teach 'git merge' the --continue option which allows 'continuing' a merge by completing it. The traditional way of completing a merge after resolving conflicts is to use 'git commit'. Now with commands like 'git rebase' and 'git cherry-pick' having a '--continue' option adding such an option to 'git merge' presents a consistent UI. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Chris Packham committed Dec 14, 2016 at 21:37 UTC 367ff694281ce569edd8f6e444fc770f92f5d215
3 files changed +38
Documentation/git-merge.txt
+8
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
15 [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
16 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...
17 'git merge' --abort
18 +'git merge' --continue
19
20 DESCRIPTION
21 -----------
@@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ reconstruct the original (pre-merge) changes. Therefore:
62 discouraged: while possible, it may leave you in a state that is hard to
63 back out of in the case of a conflict.
64
65 +The fourth syntax ("`git merge --continue`") can only be run after the
66 +merge has resulted in conflicts.
67
68 OPTIONS
69 -------
@@ -99,6 +102,11 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'.
102 'git merge --abort' is equivalent to 'git reset --merge' when
103 `MERGE_HEAD` is present.
104
105 +--continue::
106 + After a 'git merge' stops due to conflicts you can conclude the
107 + merge by running 'git merge --continue' (see "HOW TO RESOLVE
108 + CONFLICTS" section below).
109 +
110 <commit>...::
111 Commits, usually other branch heads, to merge into our branch.
112 Specifying more than one commit will create a merge with
builtin/merge.c
+21
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_merge_usage[] = {
46 N_("git merge [<options>] [<commit>...]"),
47 N_("git merge [<options>] <msg> HEAD <commit>"),
48 N_("git merge --abort"),
49 + N_("git merge --continue"),
50 NULL
51 };
52
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ static int option_renormalize;
66 static int verbosity;
67 static int allow_rerere_auto;
68 static int abort_current_merge;
69 +static int continue_current_merge;
70 static int allow_unrelated_histories;
71 static int show_progress = -1;
72 static int default_to_upstream = 1;
@@ -223,6 +225,8 @@ static struct option builtin_merge_options[] = {
225 OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
226 OPT_BOOL(0, "abort", &abort_current_merge,
227 N_("abort the current in-progress merge")),
228 + OPT_BOOL(0, "continue", &continue_current_merge,
229 + N_("continue the current in-progress merge")),
230 OPT_BOOL(0, "allow-unrelated-histories", &allow_unrelated_histories,
231 N_("allow merging unrelated histories")),
232 OPT_SET_INT(0, "progress", &show_progress, N_("force progress reporting"), 1),
@@ -1125,6 +1129,7 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
1129 const char *best_strategy = NULL, *wt_strategy = NULL;
1130 struct commit_list *remoteheads, *p;
1131 void *branch_to_free;
1132 + int orig_argc = argc;
1133
1134 if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
1135 usage_with_options(builtin_merge_usage, builtin_merge_options);
@@ -1166,6 +1171,22 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
1171 goto done;
1172 }
1173
1174 + if (continue_current_merge) {
1175 + int nargc = 1;
1176 + const char *nargv[] = {"commit", NULL};
1177 +
1178 + if (orig_argc != 2)
1179 + usage_msg_opt("--continue expects no arguments",
1180 + builtin_merge_usage, builtin_merge_options);
1181 +
1182 + if (!file_exists(git_path_merge_head()))
1183 + die(_("There is no merge in progress (MERGE_HEAD missing)."));
1184 +
1185 + /* Invoke 'git commit' */
1186 + ret = cmd_commit(nargc, nargv, prefix);
1187 + goto done;
1188 + }
1189 +
1190 if (read_cache_unmerged())
1191 die_resolve_conflict("merge");
1192
t/t7600-merge.sh
+9
@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ test_expect_success 'test option parsing' '
154 test_must_fail git merge -s foobar c1 &&
155 test_must_fail git merge -s=foobar c1 &&
156 test_must_fail git merge -m &&
157 + test_must_fail git merge --continue foobar &&
158 + test_must_fail git merge --continue --quiet &&
159 test_must_fail git merge
160 '
161
@@ -763,4 +765,11 @@ test_expect_success 'merge nothing into void' '
765 )
766 '
767
768 +test_expect_success 'merge can be completed with --continue' '
769 + git reset --hard c0 &&
770 + git merge --no-ff --no-commit c1 &&
771 + git merge --continue &&
772 + verify_parents $c0 $c1
773 +'
774 +
775 test_done