[GITEA] Don't consider orphan branches as recently pushed

When displaying the recently pushed branches banner, don't display
branches that have no common history with the default branch. These
branches are usually not meant to be merged, so the banner is just noise
in this case.

Refs: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/2196

Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <forgejo@gergo.csillger.hu>
(cherry picked from commit e1fba517f4)

routers/web/repo/view.go

@@ -1053,7 +1053,43 @@ func renderCode(ctx *context.Context) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		ctx.Data["RecentlyPushedNewBranches"] = branches
+		// Filter out branches that have no relation to the default branch of
+		// the repository.
+		var filteredBranches []*git_model.Branch
+		for _, branch := range branches {
+			repo, err := branch.GetRepo(ctx)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			gitRepo, err := git.OpenRepository(ctx, repo.RepoPath())
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			defer gitRepo.Close()
+			head, err := gitRepo.GetCommit(branch.CommitID)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			defaultBranch, err := gitRepo.GetDefaultBranch()
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			defaultBranchHead, err := gitRepo.GetCommit(defaultBranch)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			hasMergeBase, err := head.HasPreviousCommit(defaultBranchHead.ID)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if hasMergeBase {
+				filteredBranches = append(filteredBranches, branch)
+			}
+		}
+
+		ctx.Data["RecentlyPushedNewBranches"] = filteredBranches
 	}
 
 PostRecentBranchCheck:

tests/integration/pull_create_test.go

@@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ import (
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/models/db"
 	repo_model "code.gitea.io/gitea/models/repo"
 	unit_model "code.gitea.io/gitea/models/unit"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/models/unittest"
+	user_model "code.gitea.io/gitea/models/user"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/git"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/graceful"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/test"
 	repo_service "code.gitea.io/gitea/services/repository"
+	files_service "code.gitea.io/gitea/services/repository/files"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/tests"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -344,5 +349,58 @@ func TestRecentlyPushed(t *testing.T) {
 			// PR link compares against the correct rep, and qualified branch name
 			assert.Equal(t, "/user2/repo1/compare/master...user1/repo1:recent-push", forkPRLink)
 		})
+
+		t.Run("unrelated branches are not shown", func(t *testing.T) {
+			defer tests.PrintCurrentTest(t)()
+
+			adminUser := unittest.AssertExistsAndLoadBean(t, &user_model.User{IsAdmin: true})
+
+			// Create a new branch with no relation to the default branch.
+			// 1. Create a new Tree object
+			cmd := git.NewCommand(db.DefaultContext, "write-tree")
+			treeID, _, gitErr := cmd.RunStdString(&git.RunOpts{Dir: repo.RepoPath()})
+			assert.NoError(t, gitErr)
+			treeID = strings.TrimSpace(treeID)
+			// 2. Create a new (empty) commit
+			cmd = git.NewCommand(db.DefaultContext, "commit-tree", "-m", "Initial orphan commit").AddDynamicArguments(treeID)
+			commitID, _, gitErr := cmd.RunStdString(&git.RunOpts{Dir: repo.RepoPath()})
+			assert.NoError(t, gitErr)
+			commitID = strings.TrimSpace(commitID)
+			// 3. Create a new ref pointing to the orphaned commit
+			cmd = git.NewCommand(db.DefaultContext, "update-ref", "refs/heads/orphan1").AddDynamicArguments(commitID)
+			_, _, gitErr = cmd.RunStdString(&git.RunOpts{Dir: repo.RepoPath()})
+			assert.NoError(t, gitErr)
+			// 4. Sync the git repo to the database
+			syncErr := repo_service.AddAllRepoBranchesToSyncQueue(graceful.GetManager().ShutdownContext(), adminUser.ID)
+			assert.NoError(t, syncErr)
+			// 5. Add a fresh commit, so that FindRecentlyPushedBranches has
+			// something to find.
+			owner := unittest.AssertExistsAndLoadBean(t, &user_model.User{Name: "user1"})
+			changeResp, err := files_service.ChangeRepoFiles(git.DefaultContext, repo, owner,
+				&files_service.ChangeRepoFilesOptions{
+					Files: []*files_service.ChangeRepoFile{
+						{
+							Operation:     "create",
+							TreePath:      "README.md",
+							ContentReader: strings.NewReader("a readme file"),
+						},
+					},
+					Message:   "Add README.md",
+					OldBranch: "orphan1",
+					NewBranch: "orphan1",
+				})
+			assert.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.NotEmpty(t, changeResp)
+
+			// Check that we only have 1 message on the main repo, the orphaned
+			// one is not shown.
+			req := NewRequest(t, "GET", "/user1/repo1")
+			resp := session.MakeRequest(t, req, http.StatusOK)
+			htmlDoc := NewHTMLParser(t, resp.Body)
+
+			htmlDoc.AssertElement(t, ".ui.message", true)
+			link, _ := htmlDoc.Find(".ui.message a[href*='/src/branch/']").Attr("href")
+			assert.Equal(t, "/user1/repo1/src/branch/recent-push", link)
+		})
 	})
 }