From bb54c065adc7734c533a54c819ada8591e9a0a9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 14:18:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] check for the terrible situation of devel < master

---
 reloadRepoState.go | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reloadRepoState.go b/reloadRepoState.go
index 9536234..b6cb20a 100644
--- a/reloadRepoState.go
+++ b/reloadRepoState.go
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
+// count all objects only in branch1
+func (repo *Repo) countDiffObjects(branch1, branch2 string) int {
+	cmd := repo.ConstructGitDiffLog(branch1, branch2)
+	r, err := repo.RunVerboseOnError(cmd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1
+	}
+	// log.Info("countDiffObjects()", cmd, len(r.Stdout), strings.Join(r.Stdout, " "))
+	return len(r.Stdout)
+}
+
 func (repo *Repo) setRepoState() {
 	if repo == nil {
 		return
@@ -23,7 +34,15 @@ func (repo *Repo) setRepoState() {
 		}
 	}
 	if repo.GetDevelVersion() != repo.GetMasterVersion() {
-		repo.State = "merge to main"
+		b1 := repo.countDiffObjects(repo.GetMasterBranchName(), repo.GetDevelBranchName())
+		if b1 == 0 {
+			repo.State = "merge to main"
+			// log.Info("master vs devel count is normal b1 == 0", b1)
+		} else {
+			repo.State = "DEVEL < MASTER"
+			// log.Info("master vs devel count b1 != 0", b1)
+			log.Info("SERIOUS ERROR. DEVEL BRANCH NEEDS MERGE FROM MASTER b1 ==", b1, repo.GetGoPath())
+		}
 		return
 	}
 	// if IsGoTagVersionGreater(oldtag string, newtag string) bool {