sync-upstream: Remove "select" mode and simplify

I believe it was introduced to cherry-pick upstream PRs, but that simply
doesn't work. Assume upstream is two PRs A and B ahead, and A has been
merged before B. Then trying to cherry-picking B by merging the state of
upstream's master after the merge-B commit won't do what we expect. In
particular, the merge result will *include A's changes* because A had
already been merged in upstream's master when B was merged.

(One could think that merging the PR branch of B instead works, but this
will yield the same result if B was rebased on master before it was
merged.)

The proper way to cherry-pick B is to create a PR that cherry-picks all
commits that had been included in B. This could be done automatically,
but the need to cherry-pick a PR is rare enough that we don't need tool
support for it. In fact, because we want to keep cherry-picking at a
minimum, there's a good chance that we'd anyway want to pick only a
subset of the commits in a upstream PR, and that would need manual work
anyway.
This commit is contained in:
Tim Ruffing
2026-03-05 11:02:59 +01:00
parent 5a67b63ecd
commit 349a94b169

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@@ -6,14 +6,11 @@ help() {
echo "Sync merge commits from bitcoin-core/secp256k1 into secp256k1-zkp."
echo
echo "Usage:"
echo " $0 [-b <branch>] range [end]"
echo " $0 [-b <branch>] [end]"
echo " Merges every merge commit present in upstream/master and missing in <branch>"
echo " (default: master). If the optional [end] commit is provided, only merges"
echo " up to and including [end]."
echo
echo " $0 [-b <branch>] select <commit> ... <commit>"
echo " Merges every selected merge commit into <branch> (default: master)."
echo
echo "This tool creates a temporary branch and attempts to merge the upstream commits."
echo "If there are merge conflicts, resolve them and run tests, then use the generated"
echo "script contrib/gh-pr-create.sh to create the PR (requires the gh tool)."
@@ -26,7 +23,7 @@ help() {
echo "Listing upstream merge commits:"
echo " To list merge commits in upstream/master that are missing from <branch> (oldest first):"
echo " git log --oneline --merges \$(git merge-base upstream/master <branch>)..upstream/master | tac"
echo " Use these for [end] in 'range' or as arguments to 'select'."
echo " These are candidates for [end]."
exit 1
}
@@ -67,14 +64,18 @@ range() {
esac
}
# Process -b <branch> argument
while getopts "b:" opt; do
# Process -b <branch> and -h arguments
while getopts "b:h" opt; do
case $opt in
b)
LOCAL_BRANCH=$OPTARG
;;
\?)
echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
h)
help
;;
*)
echo
help
;;
esac
done
@@ -82,31 +83,11 @@ done
# Shift off the processed options
shift $((OPTIND -1))
if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
help
fi
case $1 in
range)
shift
setup
range "$@"
REPRODUCE_COMMAND="$0 -b $LOCAL_BRANCH range $RANGEEND_COMMIT"
;;
select)
shift
setup
COMMITS=$*
REPRODUCE_COMMAND="$0 -b $LOCAL_BRANCH select $@"
;;
help)
help
;;
*)
help
esac
setup
range "$@"
TITLE="Upstream PRs"
REPRODUCE_COMMAND="$0 -b $LOCAL_BRANCH $RANGEEND_COMMIT"
BODY=""
for COMMIT in $COMMITS
do