am --skip: revert changes introduced by failed 3way merge

Even when a merge conflict occurs with am --3way, the index will be
modified with the results of any succesfully merged files (such as a new
file). These changes to the index will not be reverted with a
"git read-tree --reset -u HEAD HEAD", as git read-tree will not be aware
of how the current index differs from HEAD.

To fix this, we first reset any conflicting entries from the index. The
resulting index will contain the results of successfully merged files.
We write the index to a tree, then use git read-tree -m to fast-forward
the "index tree" back to HEAD, thus undoing all the changes from the
failed merge.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index ee61a77d71..80a7fdbd24 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ then
 	cmdline="$cmdline -3"
 fi
 
+empty_tree=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
+
 sq () {
 	git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@"
 }
@@ -492,7 +494,10 @@ then
 		;;
 	t,)
 		git rerere clear
-		git read-tree --reset -u HEAD HEAD
+		head_tree=$(git rev-parse --verify -q HEAD || echo $empty_tree) &&
+		git read-tree --reset -u $head_tree $head_tree &&
+		index_tree=$(git write-tree) &&
+		git read-tree -m -u $index_tree $head_tree
 		orig_head=$(cat "$GIT_DIR/ORIG_HEAD")
 		git reset HEAD
 		git update-ref ORIG_HEAD $orig_head