git-rebase--merge: don't include absent parent as a base

Absent this fix, attempts to rebase an orphan branch using "rebase -m"
fails with:

    $ git rebase -m ORPHAN_TARGET_BASE
    First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
    fatal: Could not parse object 'ORPHAN_ROOT_SHA^'
    Unknown exit code (128) from command: git-merge-recursive ORPHAN_ROOT_SHA^ -- HEAD ORPHAN_ROOT_SHA

To fix, this will only include the rebase root's parent as a base if it exists,
so that in cases of rebasing an orphan branch, it is a simple two-way merge.

Note the default rebase behavior does not fail:

    $ git rebase ORPHAN_TARGET_BASE
    First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
    Applying: ORPHAN_ROOT_COMMIT_MSG
    Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...

A few tests were expecting the old behaviour to forbid rebasing such
a history with "rebase -m", which now need to expect them to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Woosley <ben.woosley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t3402-rebase-merge.sh b/t/t3402-rebase-merge.sh
index 8f64505e4..488945e00 100755
--- a/t/t3402-rebase-merge.sh
+++ b/t/t3402-rebase-merge.sh
@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase -Xtheirs' '
 	! grep 11 original
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rebase -Xtheirs from orphan' '
+	git checkout --orphan orphan-conflicting master~2 &&
+	echo "AB $T" >> original &&
+	git commit -morphan-conflicting original &&
+	git rebase -Xtheirs master &&
+	grep AB original &&
+	! grep 11 original
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'merge and rebase should match' '
 	git diff-tree -r test-rebase test-merge >difference &&
 	if test -s difference