The empty tree passed as common ancestor to merge_trees() when
cherry-picking a parentless commit is allocated on the heap and never
freed. Leaking such a small one-time allocation is not a very big
problem, but now that "git cherry-pick" can cherry-pick multiple
commits it can start to add up.
Avoid the leak by storing the fake tree exactly once in the BSS
section (i.e., use a static). While at it, let's add a test to make
sure cherry-picking multiple parentless commits continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already tested cherry-picking a root commit, but only
with the internal merge-recursive strategy. Let's also test
the recently-allowed reverting of a root commit, as well as
testing with external strategies (which until recently
triggered a segfault).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A root commit couldn't be cherry-picked. But its semantics can be
defined as simply merging two trees by overlaying disjoint parts
and merging overlapping files without any common ancestor. You
should be able to rebase originally independent branches on top of
another branch by using this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
