git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2

When the notes merge conflicts in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE have been
resolved, we need to record a new notes commit on the appropriate notes
ref with the resolved notes.

This patch implements 'git notes merge --commit' which the user should
run after resolving conflicts in the notes merge worktree. This command
finalizes the notes merge by recombining the partial notes tree from
part 1 with the now-resolved conflicts in the notes merge worktree in a
merge commit, and updating the appropriate ref to this merge commit.

In order to correctly finalize the merge, we need to keep track of three
things:

- The partial merge result from part 1, containing the auto-merged notes.
  This is now stored into a ref called .git/NOTES_MERGE_PARTIAL.
- The unmerged notes. These are already stored in
  .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE, thanks to part 1.
- The notes ref to be updated by the finalized merge result. This is now
  stored in a symref called .git/NOTES_MERGE_REF.

In addition to "git notes merge --commit", which uses the above details
to create the finalized notes merge commit, this patch also implements
"git notes merge --reset", which aborts the ongoing notes merge by simply
removing the files/directory described above.

FTR, "git notes merge --commit" reuses "git notes merge --reset" to remove
the information described above (.git/NOTES_MERGE_*) after the notes merge
have been successfully finalized.

The patch also contains documentation and testcases for the two new options.

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: Fix nonsense sentence in --commit description
- Sverre Rabbelier: Rename --reset to --abort

Thanks-to: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/notes-merge.h b/notes-merge.h
index 55ef3d957f..aa756931a5 100644
--- a/notes-merge.h
+++ b/notes-merge.h
@@ -71,4 +71,27 @@ int notes_merge(struct notes_merge_options *o,
 		struct notes_tree *local_tree,
 		unsigned char *result_sha1);
 
+/*
+ * Finalize conflict resolution from an earlier notes_merge()
+ *
+ * The given notes tree 'partial_tree' must be the notes_tree corresponding to
+ * the given 'partial_commit', the partial result commit created by a previous
+ * call to notes_merge().
+ *
+ * This function will add the (now resolved) notes in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE
+ * to 'partial_tree', and create a final notes merge commit, the SHA1 of which
+ * will be stored in 'result_sha1'.
+ */
+int notes_merge_commit(struct notes_merge_options *o,
+		       struct notes_tree *partial_tree,
+		       struct commit *partial_commit,
+		       unsigned char *result_sha1);
+
+/*
+ * Abort conflict resolution from an earlier notes_merge()
+ *
+ * Removes the notes merge worktree in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE.
+ */
+int notes_merge_abort(struct notes_merge_options *o);
+
 #endif