Improve MR building

app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class Projects::MergeRequestsController < Projects::ApplicationController
     @target_project = merge_request.target_project
     @source_project = merge_request.source_project
     @commits = @merge_request.compare_commits
-    @commit = @merge_request.compare_base_commit
+    @commit = @merge_request.compare_commits.last
     @diffs = @merge_request.compare_diffs
     @note_counts = Note.where(commit_id: @commits.map(&:id)).
       group(:commit_id).count

app/models/merge_request.rb

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class MergeRequest < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   # Temporary fields to store compare vars
   # when creating new merge request
-  attr_accessor :can_be_created, :compare_failed, :compare_base_commit,
+  attr_accessor :can_be_created, :compare_failed,
     :compare_commits, :compare_diffs
 
   ActsAsTaggableOn.strict_case_match = true

app/models/repository.rb

@@ -263,4 +263,20 @@ class Repository
       contributor
     end
   end
+
+  def blob_for_diff(commit, diff)
+    file = blob_at(commit.id, diff.new_path)
+
+    unless file
+      file = prev_blob_for_diff(commit, diff)
+    end
+
+    file
+  end
+
+  def prev_blob_for_diff(commit, diff)
+    if commit.parent_id
+      blob_at(commit.parent_id, diff.old_path)
+    end
+  end
 end

app/services/merge_requests/build_service.rb

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ module MergeRequests
       # If we have at least one commit to merge -> creation allowed
       if commits.present?
         merge_request.compare_commits = Commit.decorate(commits)
-        merge_request.compare_base_commit = Commit.new(commits.first)
         merge_request.can_be_created = true
         merge_request.compare_failed = false
 

app/views/projects/commits/_diff_file.html.haml

-- file = project.repository.blob_at(@commit.id, diff.new_path)
-- file = project.repository.blob_at(@commit.parent_id, diff.old_path) unless file
+- file = project.repository.blob_for_diff(@commit, diff)
 - return unless file
 .diff-file{id: "diff-#{i}"}
   .diff-header{id: "file-path-#{hexdigest(diff.new_path || diff.old_path)}"}
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@
       - else
         = render "projects/commits/text_file", diff: diff, index: i
     - elsif file.image?
-      - old_file = project.repository.blob_at(@commit.parent_id, diff.old_path) if @commit.parent_id
+      - old_file = project.repository.prev_blob_for_diff(@commit, diff)
       = render "projects/commits/image", diff: diff, old_file: old_file, file: file, index: i
     - else
       .nothing-here-block No preview for this file type