git/cache.h, branch v2.15.2

Sync with Git 2.14.4

2018-05-22T05:15:14Z

* maint-2.14: Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

Sync with Git 2.13.7

2018-05-22T05:10:49Z

* maint-2.13: Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules

2018-05-22T03:50:11Z

There are a few reasons it's not a good idea to make .gitmodules a symlink, including: 1. It won't be portable to systems without symlinks. 2. It may behave inconsistently, since Git may look at this file in the index or a tree without bothering to resolve any symbolic links. We don't do this _yet_, but the config infrastructure is there and it's planned for the future. With some clever code, we could make (2) work. And some people may not care about (1) if they only work on one platform. But there are a few security reasons to simply disallow it: a. A symlinked .gitmodules file may circumvent any fsck checks of the content. b. Git may read and write from the on-disk file without sanity checking the symlink target. So for example, if you link ".gitmodules" to "../oops" and run "git submodule add", we'll write to the file "oops" outside the repository. Again, both of those are problems that _could_ be solved with sufficient code, but given the complications in (1) and (2), we're better off just outlawing it explicitly. Note the slightly tricky call to verify_path() in update-index's update_one(). There we may not have a mode if we're not updating from the filesystem (e.g., we might just be removing the file). Passing "0" as the mode there works fine; since it's not a symlink, we'll just skip the extra checks. Signed-off-by: Jeff King

is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files

2018-05-22T03:50:11Z

When we started to catch NTFS short names that clash with .git, we only looked for GIT~1. This is sufficient because we only ever clone into an empty directory, so .git is guaranteed to be the first subdirectory or file in that directory. However, even with a fresh clone, .gitmodules is *not* necessarily the first file to be written that would want the NTFS short name GITMOD~1: a malicious repository can add .gitmodul0000 and friends, which sorts before `.gitmodules` and is therefore checked out *first*. For that reason, we have to test not only for ~1 short names, but for others, too. It's hard to just adapt the existing checks in is_ntfs_dotgit(): since Windows 2000 (i.e., in all Windows versions still supported by Git), NTFS short names are only generated in the ~ form up to number 4. After that, a *different* prefix is used, calculated from the long file name using an undocumented, but stable algorithm. For example, the short name of .gitmodules would be GITMOD~1, but if it is taken, and all of ~2, ~3 and ~4 are taken, too, the short name GI7EBA~1 will be used. From there, collisions are handled by incrementing the number, shortening the prefix as needed (until ~9999999 is reached, in which case NTFS will not allow the file to be created). We'd also want to handle .gitignore and .gitattributes, which suffer from a similar problem, using the fall-back short names GI250A~1 and GI7D29~1, respectively. To accommodate for that, we could reimplement the hashing algorithm, but it is just safer and simpler to provide the known prefixes. This algorithm has been reverse-engineered and described at https://usn.pw/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/, which is defunct but still available via https://web.archive.org/. These can be recomputed by running the following Perl script: -- snip -- use warnings; use strict; sub compute_short_name_hash ($) { my $checksum = 0; foreach (split('', $_[0])) { $checksum = ($checksum * 0x25 + ord($_)) & 0xffff; } $checksum = ($checksum * 314159269) & 0xffffffff; $checksum = 1 + (~$checksum & 0x7fffffff) if ($checksum & 0x80000000); $checksum -= (($checksum * 1152921497) >> 60) * 1000000007; return scalar reverse sprintf("%x", $checksum & 0xffff); } print compute_short_name_hash($ARGV[0]); -- snap -- E.g., running that with the argument ".gitignore" will result in "250a" (which then becomes "gi250a" in the code). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Jeff King

Merge branch 'jk/no-optional-locks'

2017-10-03T06:42:49Z

Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks" option can be passed to Git to disable them. * jk/no-optional-locks: git: add --no-optional-locks option

Merge branch 'rj/no-sign-compare'

2017-09-29T02:23:42Z

Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wsign-compare warnings. * rj/no-sign-compare: ALLOC_GROW: avoid -Wsign-compare warnings cache.h: hex2chr() - avoid -Wsign-compare warnings commit-slab.h: avoid -Wsign-compare warnings git-compat-util.h: xsize_t() - avoid -Wsign-compare warnings

git: add --no-optional-locks option

2017-09-27T07:11:01Z

Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run commands like "git status" in the background to keep track of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may refresh the index and write out the result in an opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be recomputed by the next caller. But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words, "git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it. There are a couple possible solutions: 1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other commands to tell status that they want the lock. This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to implement (and maybe even impossible with just dotlocks to work from, as it requires some inter-process communication). 2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status" that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring instead plumbing like diff-files, etc. This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that "status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the repository state than is available from individual plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_ want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands like diff-files expect us to refresh the index separately and write it to disk so that they can depend on the result. But that write is exactly what we're trying to avoid. 3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index. This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any work done in refreshing the index for such a call is lost when the process exits. So a background process may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times until the user runs a command that does an index refresh themselves. This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test) is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes a "git" option and matching environment variable. The reason there is two-fold: 1. An environment variable is carried through to sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a background process or not should apply to the whole process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls "status", you'll still get the effect. 2. There may be other programs that want the same treatment. I've punted here on finding more callers to convert, since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh of the index may be a good candidate. The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating Johannes's explanation: Note that the regression test added in this commit does not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written; that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

cache.h: hex2chr() - avoid -Wsign-compare warnings

2017-09-22T04:00:38Z

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

pack: make packed_git_mru global a value instead of a pointer

2017-09-14T06:05:48Z

The MRU cache that keeps track of recently used packs is represented using two global variables: struct mru packed_git_mru_storage; struct mru *packed_git_mru = &packed_git_mru_storage; Callers never assign to the packed_git_mru pointer, though, so we can simplify by eliminating it and using &packed_git_mru_storage (renamed to &packed_git_mru) directly. This variable is only used by the packfile subsystem, making this a relatively uninvasive change (and any new unadapted callers would trigger a compile error). Noticed while moving these globals to the object_store struct. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Acked-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'sb/sha1-file-cleanup' into maint

2017-09-10T08:03:04Z

Code clean-up. * sb/sha1-file-cleanup: sha1_file: make read_info_alternates static