git/read-cache.c, branch v2.17.2

Sync with Git 2.16.4

2018-05-22T05:25:26Z

* maint-2.16: Git 2.16.4 Git 2.15.2 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 2.15.2

2018-05-22T05:18:06Z

* maint-2.15: Git 2.15.2 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 2.14.4

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

verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment

2018-05-22T03:50:11Z

We're more restrictive than we need to be in matching ".GIT" on case-sensitive filesystems; let's make a note that this is intentional. Signed-off-by: Jeff King

verify_path: drop clever fallthrough

2018-05-22T03:50:11Z

We check ".git" and ".." in the same switch statement, and fall through the cases to share the end-of-component check. While this saves us a line or two, it makes modifying the function much harder. Let's just write it out. Signed-off-by: Jeff King

Merge branch 'nd/shared-index-fix' into maint

2018-03-22T21:24:16Z

Code clean-up. * nd/shared-index-fix: read-cache: don't write index twice if we can't write shared index read-cache.c: move tempfile creation/cleanup out of write_shared_index read-cache.c: change type of "temp" in write_shared_index()

Merge branch 'tg/split-index-fixes' into maint

2018-03-22T21:24:10Z

The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed. * tg/split-index-fixes: travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX split-index: don't write cache tree with null oid entries read-cache: fix reading the shared index for other repos

Merge branch 'rj/warning-uninitialized-fix'

2018-03-21T18:30:15Z

Compilation fix. * rj/warning-uninitialized-fix: read-cache: fix an -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning -Wuninitialized: remove some 'init-self' workarounds