#!/bin/bash

# stolen from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4156957/merging-branches-without-checkout/4157435#4157435

_usage() {
    echo "Usage: git merge-ff <branch> <committish-to-merge>" 1>&2
    exit 1
}

_merge_ff() {
    branch="$1"
    commit="$2"

    branch_orig_hash="$(git show-ref -s --verify refs/heads/$branch 2> /dev/null)"
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "Error: unknown branch $branch" 1>&2
        _usage
    fi

    commit_orig_hash="$(git rev-parse --verify $commit 2> /dev/null)"
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "Error: unknown revision $commit" 1>&2
        _usage
    fi

    if [ "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" = "refs/heads/$branch" ]; then
        git merge $quiet --ff-only "$commit" --
    else
        if [ "$(git merge-base $branch_orig_hash $commit_orig_hash)" != "$branch_orig_hash" ]; then
            echo "Error: merging $commit into $branch would not be a fast-forward" 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        echo "Updating ${branch_orig_hash:0:7}..${commit_orig_hash:0:7}"
        if git update-ref -m "merge $commit: Fast forward" "refs/heads/$branch" "$commit_orig_hash" "$branch_orig_hash"; then
            if [ -z $quiet ]; then
                echo "Fast forward"
                 git diff --stat "$branch@{1}" "$branch" --
            fi
        else
            echo "Error: fast forward using update-ref failed" 1>&2
        fi
    fi
}

while getopts "q" opt; do
    case $opt in
        q ) quiet="-q";;
        * ) ;;
    esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

case $# in
    2 ) _merge_ff "$1" "$2";;
    * ) _usage
esac