rebase: add --update-refs option

When working on a large feature, it can be helpful to break that feature
into multiple smaller parts that become reviewed in sequence. During
development or during review, a change to one part of the feature could
affect multiple of these parts. An interactive rebase can help adjust
the multi-part "story" of the branch.

However, if there are branches tracking the different parts of the
feature, then rebasing the entire list of commits can create commits not
reachable from those "sub branches". It can take a manual step to update
those branches.

Add a new --update-refs option to 'git rebase -i' that adds 'update-ref
<ref>' steps to the todo file whenever a commit that is being rebased is
decorated with that <ref>. At the very end, the rebase process updates
all of the listed refs to the values stored during the rebase operation.

Be sure to iterate after any squashing or fixups are placed. Update the
branch only after those squashes and fixups are complete. This allows a
--fixup commit at the tip of the feature to apply correctly to the sub
branch, even if it is fixing up the most-recent commit in that part.

This change update the documentation and builtin to accept the
--update-refs option as well as updating the todo file with the
'update-ref' commands. Tests are added to ensure that these todo
commands are added in the correct locations.

This change does _not_ include the actual behavior of tracking the
updated refs and writing the new ref values at the end of the rebase
process. That is deferred to a later change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 107 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index cac18a7..92204a8 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "commit-reach.h"
 #include "rebase-interactive.h"
 #include "reset.h"
+#include "branch.h"
 
 #define GIT_REFLOG_ACTION "GIT_REFLOG_ACTION"
 
@@ -5673,10 +5674,113 @@ static int skip_unnecessary_picks(struct repository *r,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+struct todo_add_branch_context {
+	struct todo_item *items;
+	size_t items_nr;
+	size_t items_alloc;
+	struct strbuf *buf;
+	struct commit *commit;
+	struct string_list refs_to_oids;
+};
+
+static int add_decorations_to_list(const struct commit *commit,
+				   struct todo_add_branch_context *ctx)
+{
+	const struct name_decoration *decoration = get_name_decoration(&commit->object);
+
+	while (decoration) {
+		struct todo_item *item;
+		const char *path;
+		size_t base_offset = ctx->buf->len;
+
+		ALLOC_GROW(ctx->items,
+			ctx->items_nr + 1,
+			ctx->items_alloc);
+		item = &ctx->items[ctx->items_nr];
+		memset(item, 0, sizeof(*item));
+
+		/* If the branch is checked out, then leave a comment instead. */
+		if ((path = branch_checked_out(decoration->name))) {
+			item->command = TODO_COMMENT;
+			strbuf_addf(ctx->buf, "# Ref %s checked out at '%s'\n",
+				    decoration->name, path);
+		} else {
+			struct string_list_item *sti;
+			item->command = TODO_UPDATE_REF;
+			strbuf_addf(ctx->buf, "%s\n", decoration->name);
+
+			sti = string_list_insert(&ctx->refs_to_oids,
+						 decoration->name);
+			sti->util = oiddup(the_hash_algo->null_oid);
+		}
+
+		item->offset_in_buf = base_offset;
+		item->arg_offset = base_offset;
+		item->arg_len = ctx->buf->len - base_offset;
+		ctx->items_nr++;
+
+		decoration = decoration->next;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For each 'pick' command, find out if the commit has a decoration in
+ * refs/heads/. If so, then add a 'label for-update-refs/' command.
+ */
+static int todo_list_add_update_ref_commands(struct todo_list *todo_list)
+{
+	int i;
+	static struct string_list decorate_refs_exclude = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
+	static struct string_list decorate_refs_exclude_config = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
+	static struct string_list decorate_refs_include = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
+	struct decoration_filter decoration_filter = {
+		.include_ref_pattern = &decorate_refs_include,
+		.exclude_ref_pattern = &decorate_refs_exclude,
+		.exclude_ref_config_pattern = &decorate_refs_exclude_config,
+	};
+	struct todo_add_branch_context ctx = {
+		.buf = &todo_list->buf,
+		.refs_to_oids = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP,
+	};
+
+	ctx.items_alloc = 2 * todo_list->nr + 1;
+	ALLOC_ARRAY(ctx.items, ctx.items_alloc);
+
+	string_list_append(&decorate_refs_include, "refs/heads/");
+	load_ref_decorations(&decoration_filter, 0);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < todo_list->nr; ) {
+		struct todo_item *item = &todo_list->items[i];
+
+		/* insert ith item into new list */
+		ALLOC_GROW(ctx.items,
+			   ctx.items_nr + 1,
+			   ctx.items_alloc);
+
+		ctx.items[ctx.items_nr++] = todo_list->items[i++];
+
+		if (item->commit) {
+			ctx.commit = item->commit;
+			add_decorations_to_list(item->commit, &ctx);
+		}
+	}
+
+	string_list_clear(&ctx.refs_to_oids, 1);
+	free(todo_list->items);
+	todo_list->items = ctx.items;
+	todo_list->nr = ctx.items_nr;
+	todo_list->alloc = ctx.items_alloc;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int complete_action(struct repository *r, struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned flags,
 		    const char *shortrevisions, const char *onto_name,
 		    struct commit *onto, const struct object_id *orig_head,
 		    struct string_list *commands, unsigned autosquash,
+		    unsigned update_refs,
 		    struct todo_list *todo_list)
 {
 	char shortonto[GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1];
@@ -5695,6 +5799,9 @@ int complete_action(struct repository *r, struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned fla
 		item->arg_len = item->arg_offset = item->flags = item->offset_in_buf = 0;
 	}
 
+	if (update_refs && todo_list_add_update_ref_commands(todo_list))
+		return -1;
+
 	if (autosquash && todo_list_rearrange_squash(todo_list))
 		return -1;