Recent "security fix" to pay attention to contents of ".gitmodules"
while accepting "git push" was a bit overly strict than necessary,
which has been adjusted.
* jk/fsck-gitmodules-gently:
fsck: downgrade gitmodulesParse default to "info"
fsck: split ".gitmodules too large" error from parse failure
fsck: silence stderr when parsing .gitmodules
config: add options parameter to git_config_from_mem
config: add CONFIG_ERROR_SILENT handler
config: turn die_on_error into caller-facing enum
Conversion from uchar[40] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
pretty: switch hard-coded constants to the_hash_algo
sha1-file: convert constants to uses of the_hash_algo
log-tree: switch GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ to the_hash_algo->hexsz
diff: switch GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ to use the_hash_algo
builtin/merge-recursive: make hash independent
builtin/merge: switch to use the_hash_algo
builtin/fmt-merge-msg: make hash independent
builtin/update-index: simplify parsing of cacheinfo
builtin/update-index: convert to using the_hash_algo
refs/files-backend: use the_hash_algo for writing refs
sha1-name: use the_hash_algo when parsing object names
strbuf: allocate space with GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
commit: express tree entry constants in terms of the_hash_algo
hex: switch to using the_hash_algo
tree-walk: replace hard-coded constants with the_hash_algo
cache: update object ID functions for the_hash_algo
"git pull --rebase" on a corrupt HEAD caused a segfault. In
general we substitute an empty tree object when running the in-core
equivalent of the diff-index command, and the codepath has been
corrected to do so as well to fix this issue.
* jk/has-uncommitted-changes-fix:
has_uncommitted_changes(): fall back to empty tree
Look for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test scripts as part
of test-lint.
* es/test-lint-one-shot-export:
t/check-non-portable-shell: detect "FOO=bar shell_func"
t/check-non-portable-shell: make error messages more compact
t/check-non-portable-shell: stop being so polite
t6046/t9833: fix use of "VAR=VAL cmd" with a shell function
"git rev-parse ':/substring'" did not consider the history leading
only to HEAD when looking for a commit with the given substring,
when the HEAD is detached. This has been fixed.
* wc/find-commit-with-pattern-on-detached-head:
sha1-name.c: for ":/", find detached HEAD commits
"git reset --merge" (hence "git merge ---abort") and "git reset --hard"
had trouble working correctly in a sparsely checked out working
tree after a conflict, which has been corrected.
* mk/merge-in-sparse-checkout:
unpack-trees: do not fail reset because of unmerged skipped entry
* hs/push-cert-check-cleanup:
gpg-interface: make parse_gpg_output static and remove from interface header
builtin/receive-pack: use check_signature from gpg-interface
Partial clone support of "git clone" has been updated to correctly
validate the objects it receives from the other side. The server
side has been corrected to send objects that are directly
requested, even if they may match the filtering criteria (e.g. when
doing a "lazy blob" partial clone).
* jt/partial-clone-fsck-connectivity:
clone: check connectivity even if clone is partial
upload-pack: send refs' objects despite "filter"
The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends
out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an
overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to
automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line
in the payload has been introduced and is made the default.
* bc/send-email-auto-cte:
docs: correct RFC specifying email line length
send-email: automatically determine transfer-encoding
send-email: accept long lines with suitable transfer encoding
send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding
The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic
option.
* bb/pedantic:
utf8.c: avoid char overflow
string-list.c: avoid conversion from void * to function pointer
sequencer.c: avoid empty statements at top level
convert.c: replace "\e" escapes with "\033".
fixup! refs/refs-internal.h: avoid forward declaration of an enum
refs/refs-internal.h: avoid forward declaration of an enum
fixup! connect.h: avoid forward declaration of an enum
connect.h: avoid forward declaration of an enum
"git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it
received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been
corrected.
* jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow:
fetch-pack: write shallow, then check connectivity
fetch-pack: implement ref-in-want
fetch-pack: put shallow info in output parameter
fetch: refactor to make function args narrower
fetch: refactor fetch_refs into two functions
fetch: refactor the population of peer ref OIDs
upload-pack: test negotiation with changing repository
upload-pack: implement ref-in-want
test-pkt-line: add unpack-sideband subcommand
The "--ignore-case" option of "git for-each-ref" (and its friends)
did not work correctly, which has been fixed.
* jk/for-each-ref-icase:
ref-filter: avoid backend filtering with --ignore-case
for-each-ref: consistently pass WM_IGNORECASE flag
t6300: add a test for --ignore-case
"git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of
the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an
effort to make them more uniform has begun.
* en/rebase-consistency:
git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default
t3401: add directory rename testcases for rebase and am
git-rebase.txt: document behavioral differences between modes
directory-rename-detection.txt: technical docs on abilities and limitations
git-rebase.txt: address confusion between --no-ff vs --force-rebase
git-rebase: error out when incompatible options passed
t3422: new testcases for checking when incompatible options passed
git-rebase.sh: update help messages a bit
git-rebase.txt: document incompatible options
"git checkout --recurse-submodules another-branch" did not report
in which submodule it failed to update the working tree, which
resulted in an unhelpful error message.
* sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg:
submodule.c: report the submodule that an error occurs in
"fsck.skipList" did not prevent a blob object listed there from
being inspected for is contents (e.g. we recently started to
inspect the contents of ".gitmodules" for certain malicious
patterns), which has been corrected.
* rj/submodule-fsck-skip:
fsck: check skiplist for object in fsck_blob()
* en/rebase-i-microfixes:
git-rebase--merge: modernize "git-$cmd" to "git $cmd"
Fix use of strategy options with interactive rebases
t3418: add testcase showing problems with rebase -i and strategy options
"git filter-branch" when used with the "--state-branch" option
still attempted to rewrite the commits whose filtered result is
known from the previous attempt (which is recorded on the state
branch); the command has been corrected not to waste cycles doing
so.
* mb/filter-branch-optim:
filter-branch: skip commits present on --state-branch
Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules
file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration
files, to read random configuration items from it.
* ao/config-from-gitmodules:
submodule-config: reuse config_from_gitmodules in repo_read_gitmodules
submodule-config: pass repository as argument to config_from_gitmodules
submodule-config: make 'config_from_gitmodules' private
submodule-config: add helper to get 'update-clone' config from .gitmodules
submodule-config: add helper function to get 'fetch' config from .gitmodules
config: move config_from_gitmodules to submodule-config.c
The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for
"--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect
it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l"
is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
future repurposing of the it when it is used.
* jk/branch-l-0-deprecation:
branch: deprecate "-l" option
t: switch "branch -l" to "branch --create-reflog"
t3200: unset core.logallrefupdates when testing reflog creation
"git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
line number but the column number of the hit.
* tb/grep-column:
contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location
grep.c: add configuration variables to show matched option
builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
grep.c: display column number of first match
grep.[ch]: extend grep_opt to allow showing matched column
grep.c: expose {,inverted} match column in match_line()
Documentation/config.txt: camel-case lineNumber for consistency
"git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that
indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated
working tree across various state transitions, which has been
corrected.
* sb/submodule-core-worktree:
submodule deinit: unset core.worktree
submodule: ensure core.worktree is set after update
submodule: unset core.worktree if no working tree is present
One-shot environment variable assignments, such as 'FOO' in
"FOO=bar cmd", exist only during the invocation of 'cmd'. However, if
'cmd' happens to be a shell function, then 'FOO' is assigned in the
executing shell itself, and that assignment remains until the process
exits (unless explicitly unset). Since this side-effect of
"FOO=bar shell_func" is unlikely to be intentional, detect and report
such usage.
To distinguish shell functions from other commands, perform a pre-scan
of shell scripts named as input, gleaning a list of function names by
recognizing lines of the form (loosely matching whitespace):
shell_func () {
and later report suspect lines of the form (loosely matching quoted
values):
FOO=bar [BAR=foo ...] shell_func
Also take care to stitch together incomplete lines (those ending with
"\") since suspect invocations may be split over multiple lines:
FOO=bar BAR=foo \
shell_func
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line of failed shell text, usually coming from within a test body,
is often indented by one or two TABs, with the result that the actual
(important) text is separated from <explanation> by a good deal of empty
space. This can make for a difficult read, especially on typical
80-column terminals.
Make the messages more compact and perhaps a bit easier to digest by
folding out the leading whitespace from <failed-shell-text>.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many problem explanations ask the reader to "please" use a suggested
alternative, however, such politeness is unnecessary and just adds to
the noise and length of the line, so drop "please" to make the message a
bit more concise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t6046/t9833: fix use of "VAR=VAL cmd" with a shell function
Unlike "FOO=bar cmd" one-shot environment variable assignments
which exist only for the invocation of 'cmd', those assigned by
"FOO=bar shell_func" exist within the running shell and continue to
do so until the process exits (or are explicitly unset). It is
unlikely that this behavior was intended by the test author.
In these particular tests, the "FOO=bar shell_func" invocations are
already in subshells, so the assignments don't last too long, don't
appear to harm subsequent commands in the same subshells, and don't
affect other tests in the same scripts, however, the usage is
nevertheless misleading and poor practice, so fix the tests to assign
and export the environment variables in the usual fashion.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use GIT_MAX_HEXSZ instead of GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ for an allocation so that it
is sufficiently large. Switch a comparison to use the_hash_algo to
determine the length of a hex object ID.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert several uses of GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ into references to the_hash_algo.
Switch other uses into a use of parse_oid_hex and uses of its computed
pointer.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cache: update object ID functions for the_hash_algo
Most of our code has been converted to use struct object_id for object
IDs. However, there are some places that still have not, and there are
a variety of places that compare equivalently sized hashes that are not
object IDs. All of these hashes are artifacts of the internal hash
algorithm in use, and when we switch to NewHash for object storage, all
of these uses will also switch.
Update the hashcpy, hashclr, and hashcmp functions to use the_hash_algo,
since they are used in a variety of places to copy and manipulate
buffers that need to move data into or out of struct object_id. This
has the effect of making the corresponding oid* functions use
the_hash_algo as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our color buffers are all COLOR_MAXLEN, which fits the
largest possible color. So we can never overflow the buffer
by copying an existing color. However, using strcpy() makes
it harder to audit the code-base for calls that _are_
problems. We should use something like xsnprintf(), which
shows the reader that we expect this never to fail (and
provides a run-time assertion if it does, just in case).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the configured comment character when generating comments about
branches in a todo list. Failure to honor this configuration causes a
failure to parse the resulting todo list.
Setting core.commentChar to "auto" will not be honored here, and the
previously configured or default value will be used instead. But, since
the todo list will consist of only generated content, there should not
be any non-comment lines beginning with that character.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We added an fsck check in ed8b10f631 (fsck: check
.gitmodules content, 2018-05-02) as a defense against the
vulnerability from 0383bbb901 (submodule-config: verify
submodule names as paths, 2018-04-30). With the idea that
up-to-date hosting sites could protect downstream unpatched
clients that fetch from them.
As part of that defense, we reject any ".gitmodules" entry
that is not syntactically valid. The theory is that if we
cannot even parse the file, we cannot accurately check it
for vulnerabilities. And anybody with a broken .gitmodules
file would eventually want to know anyway.
But there are a few reasons this is a bad tradeoff in
practice:
- for this particular vulnerability, the client has to be
able to parse the file. So you cannot sneak an attack
through using a broken file, assuming the config parsers
for the process running fsck and the eventual victim are
functionally equivalent.
- a broken .gitmodules file is not necessarily a problem.
Our fsck check detects .gitmodules in _any_ tree, not
just at the root. And the presence of a .gitmodules file
does not necessarily mean it will be used; you'd have to
also have gitlinks in the tree. The cgit repository, for
example, has a file named .gitmodules from a
pre-submodule attempt at sharing code, but does not
actually have any gitlinks.
- when the fsck check is used to reject a push, it's often
hard to work around. The pusher may not have full control
over the destination repository (e.g., if it's on a
hosting server, they may need to contact the hosting
site's support). And the broken .gitmodules may be too
far back in history for rewriting to be feasible (again,
this is an issue for cgit).
So we're being unnecessarily restrictive without actually
improving the security in a meaningful way. It would be more
convenient to downgrade this check to "info", which means
we'd still comment on it, but not reject a push. Site admins
can already do this via config, but we should ship sensible
defaults.
There are a few counterpoints to consider in favor of
keeping the check as an error:
- the first point above assumes that the config parsers for
the victim and the fsck process are equivalent. This is
pretty true now, but as time goes on will become less so.
Hosting sites are likely to upgrade their version of Git,
whereas vulnerable clients will be stagnant (if they did
upgrade, they'd cease to be vulnerable!). So in theory we
may see drift over time between what two config parsers
will accept.
In practice, this is probably OK. The config format is
pretty established at this point and shouldn't change a
lot. And the farther we get from the announcement of the
vulnerability, the less interesting this extra layer of
protection becomes. I.e., it was _most_ valuable on day
0, when everybody's client was still vulnerable and
hosting sites could protect people. But as time goes on
and people upgrade, the population of vulnerable clients
becomes smaller and smaller.
- In theory this could protect us from other
vulnerabilities in the future. E.g., .gitmodules are the
only way for a malicious repository to feed data to the
config parser, so this check could similarly protect
clients from a future (to-be-found) bug there.
But that's trading a hypothetical case for real-world
pain today. If we do find such a bug, the hosting site
would need to be updated to fix it, too. At which point
we could figure out whether it's possible to detect
_just_ the malicious case without hurting existing
broken-but-not-evil cases.
- Until recently, we hadn't made any restrictions on
.gitmodules content. So now in tightening that we're
hitting cases where certain things used to work, but
don't anymore. There's some moderate pain now. But as
time goes on, we'll see more (and more varied) cases that
will make tightening harder in the future. So there's
some argument for putting rules in place _now_, before
users grow more cases that violate them.
Again, this is trading pain now for hypothetical benefit
in the future. And if we try hard in the future to keep
our tightening to a minimum (i.e., rejecting true
maliciousness without hurting broken-but-not-evil repos),
then that reduces even the hypothetical benefit.
Considering both sets of arguments, it makes sense to loosen
this check for now.
Note that we have to tweak the test in t7415 since fsck will
no longer consider this a fatal error. But we still check
that it reports the warning, and that we don't get the
spurious error from the config code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fsck: split ".gitmodules too large" error from parse failure
Since ed8b10f631 (fsck: check .gitmodules content,
2018-05-02), we'll report a gitmodulesParse error for two
conditions:
- a .gitmodules entry is not syntactically valid
- a .gitmodules entry is larger than core.bigFileThreshold
with the intent that we can detect malicious files and
protect downstream clients. E.g., from the issue in 0383bbb901 (submodule-config: verify submodule names as
paths, 2018-04-30).
But these conditions are actually quite different with
respect to that bug:
- a syntactically invalid file cannot trigger the problem,
as the victim would barf before hitting the problematic
code
- a too-big .gitmodules _can_ trigger the problem. Even
though it is obviously silly to have a 500MB .gitmodules
file, the submodule code will happily parse it if you
have enough memory.
So it may be reasonable to configure their severity
separately. Let's add a new class for the "too large" case
to allow that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t3404: fix use of "VAR=VAL cmd" with a shell function
Bash may take it happily but running test with dash reveals a breakage.
This was not discovered for a long time as no tests after this test
depended on GIT_AUTHOR_NAME to be reverted correctly back to the
original value after this step is done.
On Windows, if a tool calls SetCurrentDirectory with a lower case drive
letter, the subsequent call to GetCurrentDirectory will return the same
lower case drive letter. Powershell, for example, does not normalize the
path. If that happens, test-drop-caches will error out as it does not
correctly to handle lower case drive letters.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch broadens the set of commits matched by ":/<pattern>" to
include commits reachable from HEAD but not any named ref. This avoids
surprising behavior when working with a detached HEAD and trying to
refer to a commit that was recently created and only exists within the
detached state.
If multiple worktrees exist, only the current worktree's HEAD is
considered reachable. This is consistent with the existing behavior for
other per-worktree refs: e.g., bisect refs are considered reachable, but
only within the relevant worktree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: William Chargin <wchargin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/lib-httpd: avoid occasional failures when checking access.log
The last test of 't5561-http-backend.sh', 'server request log matches
test results' may fail occasionally, because the order of entries in
Apache's access log doesn't match the order of requests sent in the
previous tests, although all the right requests are there. I saw it
fail on Travis CI five times in the span of about half a year, when
the order of two subsequent requests was flipped, and could trigger
the failure with a modified Git. However, I was unable to trigger it
with stock Git on my machine. Three tests in
't5541-http-push-smart.sh' and 't5551-http-fetch-smart.sh' check
requests in the log the same way, so they might be prone to a similar
occasional failure as well.
When a test sends a HTTP request, it can continue execution after
'git-http-backend' fulfilled that request, but Apache writes the
corresponding access log entry only after 'git-http-backend' exited.
Some time inevitably passes between fulfilling the request and writing
the log entry, and, under unfavourable circumstances, enough time
might pass for the subsequent request to be sent and fulfilled by a
different Apache thread or process, and then Apache writes access log
entries racily.
This effect can be exacerbated by adding a bit of variable delay after
the request is fulfilled but before 'git-http-backend' exits, e.g.
like this:
This delay considerably increases the chances of log entries being
written out of order, and in turn makes t5561's last test fail almost
every time. Alas, it doesn't seem to be enough to trigger a similar
failure in t5541 and t5551.
So, since we can't just rely on the order of access log entries always
corresponding the order of requests, make checking the access log more
deterministic by sorting (simply lexicographically) both the stripped
access log entries and the expected entries before the comparison with
'test_cmp'. This way the order of log entries won't matter and
occasional out-of-order entries won't trigger a test failure, but the
comparison will still notice any unexpected or missing log entries.
OTOH, this sorting will make it harder to identify from which test an
unexpected log entry came from or which test's request went missing.
Therefore, in case of an error include the comparison of the unsorted
log enries in the test output as well.
And since all this should be performed in four tests in three test
scripts, put this into a new helper function 'check_access_log' in
't/lib-httpd.sh'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/lib-httpd: add the strip_access_log() helper function
Four tests in three httpd-related test scripts check the contents of
Apache's 'access.log', and they all do so by running 'sed' with the
exact same script consisting of four s/// commands to strip
uninteresting log fields and to vertically align the requested URLs.
Extract this into a common helper function 'strip_access_log' in
'lib-httpd.sh', and use it in all of those tests.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the second test of 't5541-http-push-smart.sh', 'no empty path
components' we truncate Apache's access log by running:
echo >.../access.log
There are two issues with this approach:
- This doesn't leave an empty file behind, like a proper truncation
would, but a file with a lone newline in it. Consequently, a
later test checking the log's contents must consider this improper
truncation and include an empty line in the expected content.
- This truncation is done in the middle of the test, because,
quoting the in-code comment, "we do this [truncation] before the
actual comparison to ensure the log is cleared" even when
subsequent 'test_cmp' fails. Alas, this is not quite robust
enough, as it is conceivable that 'git clone' fails after already
having sent a request, in which case the access log would not be
truncated and would leave stray log entries behind.
Since there is no need for that newline at all, drop the 'echo' from
the truncation and adjust the expected content accordingly.
Furthermore, make sure that the truncation is performed no matter
whether and how 'git clone' fails unexpectedly by specifying it as a
'test_when_finished' command.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
has_uncommitted_changes(): fall back to empty tree
If has_uncommitted_changes() can't resolve HEAD (e.g.,
because it's unborn or corrupt), then we end up calling
run_diff_index() with an empty revs.pending array. This
causes a segfault, as run_diff_index() blindly looks at the
first pending item.
Fixing this raises a question of fault: should
run_diff_index() handle this case, or is the caller wrong to
pass an empty pending list?
Looking at the other callers of run_diff_index(), they
handle this in one of three ways:
- they resolve the object themselves, and avoid doing the
diff if it's not valid
- they resolve the object themselves, and fall back to the
empty tree
- they use setup_revisions(), which will die() if the
object isn't valid
Since this is the only broken caller, that argues that the
fix should go there. Falling back to the empty tree makes
sense here, as we'd claim uncommitted changes if and only if
the index is non-empty. This may be a little funny in the
case of corruption (the corrupt HEAD probably _isn't_
empty), but:
- we don't actually know the reason here that HEAD didn't
resolve (the much more likely case is that we have an
unborn HEAD, in which case the empty tree comparison is
the right thing)
- this matches how other code, like "git diff", behaves
While we're thinking about it, let's add an assertion to
run_diff_index(). It should always be passed a single
object, and as this bug shows, it's easy to get it wrong
(and an assertion is easier to hunt down than a segfault, or
a quietly ignored extra tree).
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
unpack-trees: do not fail reset because of unmerged skipped entry
After modify/delete merge conflict happens in a file skipped by sparse
checkout, "git reset --merge", which implements the "--abort" actions,
and "git reset --hard" fail with message "Entry * not uptodate. Cannot
update sparse checkout."
As explained in [1], the up-to-date checker mistakenly treats conflicted
entry which does not exist in HEAD as still skipped by sparse checkout.
Use the fix suggested in [1]. Also, add test case which verifies the
issue is fixed.
When cherry-picking a single commit, we go through a special
code path that avoids creating a sequencer todo list at all.
This path expects our revision parsing to turn up exactly
one commit, and dies with a BUG if it doesn't.
But it's actually quite easy to fool. For example:
$ git cherry-pick --author=no.such.person HEAD
error: BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk
fatal: cherry-pick failed
This isn't a bug; it's just bogus input.
The condition to trigger this message actually has two
parts:
1. We saw no commits. That's the case in the example
above. Let's drop the "BUG" here to make it clear that
the input is the problem. And let's also use the phrase
"empty commit set passed", which matches what we say
when we do a real revision walk and it turns up empty.
2. We saw more than one commit. That one _should_ be
impossible to trigger, since we fed at most one tip and
provided the no_walk option (and we'll have already
expanded options like "--branches" that can turn into
multiple tips). If this ever triggers, it's an
indication that the conditional added by 7acaaac275
(revert: allow single-pick in the middle of cherry-pick
sequence, 2011-12-10) needs to more carefully define
the single-pick case.
So this can remain a bug, but we'll upgrade it to use
the BUG() macro, which would make it easier to detect
and analyze if it does trigger.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user gives us a set that prepare_revision_walk()
takes to be empty, like:
git cherry-pick base..base
then we report an error. It's nonsense, and there's nothing
to pick.
But if they use revision options that later cull the list,
like:
git cherry-pick --author=nobody base~2..base
then we quietly create an empty todo list and return
success.
Arguably either behavior is acceptable, but we should
definitely be consistent about it. Reporting an error
seems to match the original intent, which dates all the way
back to 7e2bfd3f99 (revert: allow cherry-picking more than
one commit, 2010-06-02). That in turn was trying to match
the single-commit case that existed before then (and which
continues to issue an error).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we don't care about how many bytes were written, simplify the return
value logic.
log_ref_write_fd() was written long before strbuf was fleshed out. Remove
the old manual buffer management code and replace it with strbuf(). Also
update copy_reflog_msg() which is called only by log_ref_write_fd() to use
strbuf as it keeps things consistent.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>