fix: Reverse commit range before yanking

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Breaking Changes
+* reverse commit range before yanking marked commits, producing `<oldest>^..<newest>` for consecutive commit ranges. [[@Esgariot](https://github.com/Esgariot)] ([#2441](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/pull/2441))
+
 ### Added
 * support loading custom syntax highlighting themes from a file [[@acuteenvy](https://github.com/acuteenvy)] ([#2565](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/pull/2565))
 * Select syntax highlighting theme out of the defaults from syntect [[@vasilismanol](https://github.com/vasilismanol)] ([#1931](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/1931))

asyncgit/src/sync/mod.rs

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ mod rebase;
 pub mod remotes;
 mod repository;
 mod reset;
+mod revwalk;
 mod reword;
 pub mod sign;
 mod staging;
@@ -65,6 +66,8 @@ pub use config::{
 };
 pub use diff::get_diff_commit;
 pub use git2::BranchType;
+pub use git2::ResetType;
+pub use git2::Sort;
 pub use hooks::{
 	hooks_commit_msg, hooks_post_commit, hooks_pre_commit,
 	hooks_prepare_commit_msg, HookResult, PrepareCommitMsgSource,
@@ -87,6 +90,7 @@ pub use remotes::{
 pub(crate) use repository::repo;
 pub use repository::{RepoPath, RepoPathRef};
 pub use reset::{reset_repo, reset_stage, reset_workdir};
+pub use revwalk::revwalk;
 pub use reword::reword;
 pub use staging::{discard_lines, stage_lines};
 pub use stash::{
@@ -108,8 +112,6 @@ pub use utils::{
 	stage_add_all, stage_add_file, stage_addremoved, Head,
 };
 
-pub use git2::ResetType;
-
 /// test utils
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub mod tests {
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ pub mod tests {
 	};
 	use crate::error::Result;
 	use git2::Repository;
+
 	use std::{path::Path, process::Command};
 	use tempfile::TempDir;
 

asyncgit/src/sync/revwalk.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+use std::ops::Bound;
+
+use crate::Result;
+use git2::{Commit, Oid};
+
+use super::{repo, CommitId, RepoPath};
+
+/// Performs a Git revision walk on `repo_path`, optionally bounded by `start` and `end` commits,
+/// sorted according to `sort`. The revwalk iterator bound by repository's lifetime is exposed through
+/// the `iter_fn`.
+///
+///
+pub fn revwalk<R>(
+	repo_path: &RepoPath,
+	start: Bound<&CommitId>,
+	end: Bound<&CommitId>,
+	sort: git2::Sort,
+	iter_fn: impl FnOnce(
+		&mut (dyn Iterator<Item = Result<Oid>>),
+	) -> Result<R>,
+) -> Result<R> {
+	let repo = repo(repo_path)?;
+	let mut revwalk = repo.revwalk()?;
+	revwalk.set_sorting(sort)?;
+	let start = resolve(&repo, start)?;
+	let end = resolve(&repo, end)?;
+
+	if let Some(s) = start {
+		revwalk.hide(s.id())?;
+	}
+	if let Some(e) = end {
+		revwalk.push(e.id())?;
+	}
+	let ret = iter_fn(&mut revwalk.map(|r| {
+		r.map_err(|x| crate::Error::Generic(x.to_string()))
+	}));
+	ret
+}
+
+fn resolve<'r>(
+	repo: &'r git2::Repository,
+	commit: Bound<&CommitId>,
+) -> Result<Option<Commit<'r>>> {
+	match commit {
+		Bound::Included(c) => {
+			let commit = repo.find_commit(c.get_oid())?;
+			Ok(Some(commit))
+		}
+		Bound::Excluded(s) => {
+			let commit = repo.find_commit(s.get_oid())?;
+			let res = (commit.parent_count() == 1)
+				.then(|| commit.parent(0))
+				.transpose()?;
+			Ok(res)
+		}
+		Bound::Unbounded => Ok(None),
+	}
+}

src/components/commitlist.rs

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ use crate::{
 };
 use anyhow::Result;
 use asyncgit::sync::{
-	self, checkout_commit, BranchDetails, BranchInfo, CommitId,
-	RepoPathRef, Tags,
+	self, checkout_commit, revwalk, BranchDetails, BranchInfo,
+	CommitId, RepoPathRef, Sort, Tags,
 };
 use chrono::{DateTime, Local};
 use crossterm::event::Event;
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ use ratatui::{
 	Frame,
 };
 use std::{
-	borrow::Cow, cell::Cell, cmp, collections::BTreeMap, rc::Rc,
-	time::Instant,
+	borrow::Cow, cell::Cell, cmp, collections::BTreeMap, ops::Bound,
+	rc::Rc, time::Instant,
 };
 
 const ELEMENTS_PER_LINE: usize = 9;
@@ -145,12 +145,27 @@ impl CommitList {
 				)
 				.map(|e| e.id.to_string()),
 			[(_idx, commit)] => Some(commit.to_string()),
-			[first, .., last] => {
-				let marked_consecutive =
-					marked.windows(2).all(|w| w[0].0 + 1 == w[1].0);
-
-				let yank = if marked_consecutive {
-					format!("{}^..{}", first.1, last.1)
+			[latest, .., earliest] => {
+				let marked_rev = marked.iter().rev();
+				let marked_topo_consecutive = revwalk(
+					&self.repo.borrow(),
+					Bound::Excluded(&earliest.1),
+					Bound::Included(&latest.1),
+					Sort::TOPOLOGICAL | Sort::REVERSE,
+					|revwalk| {
+						revwalk.zip(marked_rev).try_fold(
+							true,
+							|acc, (r, m)| {
+								let revwalked = CommitId::new(r?);
+								let marked = m.1;
+								log::trace!("comparing revwalk with marked: {} <-> {}",revwalked,marked);
+								Ok(acc && (revwalked == marked))
+							},
+						)
+					},
+				)?;
+				let yank = if marked_topo_consecutive {
+					format!("{}^..{}", earliest.1, latest.1)
 				} else {
 					marked
 						.iter()