diff-options.txt: fix minor typos, font inconsistencies, in docs

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 65f4fe8375d59234d5e58f87a8593fc50e6336a2..8cef7b671548e5fdc3aa1daa1bff02e3c4efdb47 100644 (file)
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ struct cache_entry *make_cache_entry(unsigned int mode,
        int size, len;
        struct cache_entry *ce, *ret;
 
-       if (!verify_path(path)) {
+       if (!verify_path(path, mode)) {
                error("Invalid path '%s'", path);
                return NULL;
        }
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ int ce_same_name(const struct cache_entry *a, const struct cache_entry *b)
  * Also, we don't want double slashes or slashes at the
  * end that can make pathnames ambiguous.
  */
-static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
+static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest, unsigned mode)
 {
        /*
         * The first character was '.', but that
@@ -811,8 +811,13 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
 
        switch (*rest) {
        /*
-        * ".git" followed by  NUL or slash is bad. This
-        * shares the path end test with the ".." case.
+        * ".git" followed by NUL or slash is bad. Note that we match
+        * case-insensitively here, even if ignore_case is not set.
+        * This outlaws ".GIT" everywhere out of an abundance of caution,
+        * since there's really no good reason to allow it.
+        *
+        * Once we've seen ".git", we can also find ".gitmodules", etc (also
+        * case-insensitively).
         */
        case 'g':
        case 'G':
@@ -820,8 +825,15 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
                        break;
                if (rest[2] != 't' && rest[2] != 'T')
                        break;
-               rest += 2;
-       /* fallthrough */
+               if (rest[3] == '\0' || is_dir_sep(rest[3]))
+                       return 0;
+               if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
+                       rest += 3;
+                       if (skip_iprefix(rest, "modules", &rest) &&
+                           (*rest == '\0' || is_dir_sep(*rest)))
+                               return 0;
+               }
+               break;
        case '.':
                if (rest[1] == '\0' || is_dir_sep(rest[1]))
                        return 0;
@@ -829,7 +841,7 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
        return 1;
 }
 
-int verify_path(const char *path)
+int verify_path(const char *path, unsigned mode)
 {
        char c;
 
@@ -842,12 +854,25 @@ int verify_path(const char *path)
                        return 1;
                if (is_dir_sep(c)) {
 inside:
-                       if (protect_hfs && is_hfs_dotgit(path))
-                               return 0;
-                       if (protect_ntfs && is_ntfs_dotgit(path))
-                               return 0;
+                       if (protect_hfs) {
+                               if (is_hfs_dotgit(path))
+                                       return 0;
+                               if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
+                                       if (is_hfs_dotgitmodules(path))
+                                               return 0;
+                               }
+                       }
+                       if (protect_ntfs) {
+                               if (is_ntfs_dotgit(path))
+                                       return 0;
+                               if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
+                                       if (is_ntfs_dotgitmodules(path))
+                                               return 0;
+                               }
+                       }
+
                        c = *path++;
-                       if ((c == '.' && !verify_dotfile(path)) ||
+                       if ((c == '.' && !verify_dotfile(path, mode)) ||
                            is_dir_sep(c) || c == '\0')
                                return 0;
                }
@@ -1164,7 +1189,7 @@ static int add_index_entry_with_check(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_e
 
        if (!ok_to_add)
                return -1;
-       if (!verify_path(ce->name))
+       if (!verify_path(ce->name, ce->ce_mode))
                return error("Invalid path '%s'", ce->name);
 
        if (!skip_df_check &&