merge-recursive: fix the diff3 common ancestor label for virtual commits

In commit 743474c ("merge-recursive: provide a better label for
diff3 common ancestor", 2019-08-17), the label for the common ancestor
was changed from always being

         "merged common ancestors"

to instead be based on the number of merge bases:

    >=2: "merged common ancestors"
      1: <abbreviated commit hash>
      0: "<empty tree>"

Unfortunately, this did not take into account that when we have a single
merge base, that merge base could be fake or constructed.  In such
cases, this resulted in a label of "00000000".  Of course, the previous
label of "merged common ancestors" was also misleading for this case.
Since we have an API that is explicitly about creating fake merge base
commits in merge_recursive_generic(), we should provide a better label
when using that API with one merge base.  So, when
merge_recursive_generic() is called with one merge base, set the label
to:

         "constructed merge base"

Note that callers of merge_recursive_generic() include the builtin
commands git-am (in combination with git apply --build-fake-ancestor),
git-merge-recursive, and git-stash.

Helped-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: newren

merge-recursive.c

@@ -3550,6 +3550,8 @@ static int merge_recursive_internal(struct merge_options *opt,
 		merged_merge_bases = make_virtual_commit(opt->repo, tree,
 							 "ancestor");
 		ancestor_name = "empty tree";
+	} else if (opt->ancestor) {
+		ancestor_name = opt->ancestor;
 	} else if (merge_bases) {
 		ancestor_name = "merged common ancestors";
 	} else {
@@ -3689,7 +3691,8 @@ int merge_recursive(struct merge_options *opt,
 {
 	int clean;
 
-	assert(opt->ancestor == NULL);
+	assert(opt->ancestor == NULL ||
+	       !strcmp(opt->ancestor, "constructed merge base"));
 
 	if (merge_start(opt, repo_get_commit_tree(opt->repo, h1)))
 		return -1;
@@ -3741,6 +3744,8 @@ int merge_recursive_generic(struct merge_options *opt,
 					   oid_to_hex(merge_bases[i]));
 			commit_list_insert(base, &ca);
 		}
+		if (num_merge_bases == 1)
+			opt->ancestor = "constructed merge base";
 	}
 
 	repo_hold_locked_index(opt->repo, &lock, LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR);

t/t6047-diff3-conflict-markers.sh

@@ -186,4 +186,17 @@ test_expect_success 'check multiple merge bases' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rebase describes fake ancestor base' '
+	test_create_repo rebase &&
+	(
+		cd rebase &&
+		test_commit base file &&
+		test_commit master file &&
+		git checkout -b side HEAD^ &&
+		test_commit side file &&
+		test_must_fail git -c merge.conflictstyle=diff3 rebase master &&
+		grep "||||||| constructed merge base" file
+	)
+'
+
 test_done