Update the documentation not to assume users are of certain gender
and adds to guidelines to do so.
* ds/gender-neutral-doc:
*: fix typos
comments: avoid using the gender of our users
doc: avoid using the gender of other people
Code cleanup around struct_type_init() functions.
* ab/struct-init:
string-list.h users: change to use *_{nodup,dup}()
string-list.[ch]: add a string_list_init_{nodup,dup}()
dir.[ch]: replace dir_init() with DIR_INIT
*.c *_init(): define in terms of corresponding *_INIT macro
*.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
Change all in-tree users of the string_list_init(LIST, BOOL) API to
use string_list_init_{nodup,dup}(LIST) instead.
As noted in the preceding commit let's leave the now-unused
string_list_init() wrapper in-place for any in-flight users, it can be
removed at some later date.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linux users may benefit from additional information on how to
avoid ENOMEM from mmap despite the system having enough RAM to
accomodate them. We can't reliably unmap pack windows to work
around the issue since malloc and other library routines may
mmap without our knowledge.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git for Windows is compiled with a runtime prefix, and that runtime
prefix is typically `C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64`. As we want the
system gitconfig to live in the sibling directory `etc`, we define the
relative path as `../etc/gitconfig`.
However, as reported by Philip Oakley, the output of `git config
--show-origin --system -l` looks rather ugly, as it shows the path as
`file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/../etc/gitconfig`, i.e. with the
`mingw64/../` part.
By normalizing the path, we get a prettier path.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These typos were found while searching the codebase for gendered
pronouns. In the case of t9300-fast-import.sh, remove a confusing
comment that is unnecessary to the understanding of the test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
(setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.
* ps/config-global-override:
t1300: fix unset of GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM leaking into subsequent tests
config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
config: unify code paths to get global config paths
config: rename `git_etc_config()`
In order to have git run in a fully controlled environment without any
misconfiguration, it may be desirable for users or scripts to override
global- and system-level configuration files. We already have a way of
doing this, which is to unset both HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment
variables and to set `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=true`. This is quite kludgy,
and unsetting the first two variables likely has an impact on other
executables spawned by such a script.
The obvious way to fix this would be to introduce `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`
as an equivalent to `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. But in the past, it has
turned out that this design is inflexible: we cannot test system-level
parsing of the git configuration in our test harness because there is no
way to change its location, so all tests run with `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`
set.
Instead of doing the same mistake with `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`, introduce
two new variables `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` and `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`:
- If unset, git continues to use the usual locations.
- If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal
configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path
to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective
level.
This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized
environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but
is more flexible and allows for more usecases than simply adding
`GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's two callsites which assemble global config paths, once in the
config loading code and once in the git-config(1) builtin. We're about
to implement a way to override global config paths via an environment
variable which would require us to adjust both sites.
Unify both code paths into a single `git_global_config()` function which
returns both paths for `~/.gitconfig` and the XDG config file. This will
make the subsequent patch which introduces the new envvar easier to
implement.
No functional changes are expected from this patch.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git_etc_gitconfig()` function retrieves the system-level path of
the configuration file. We're about to introduce a way to override it
via an environment variable, at which point the name of this function
would start to become misleading.
Rename the function to `git_system_config()` as a preparatory step.
While at it, the function is also refactored to pass memory ownership to
the caller. This is done to better match semantics of
`git_global_config()`, which is going to be introduced in the next
commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a use of GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON added in f276e2a469 (config:
improve error message for boolean config, 2021-02-11).
This was simultaneously in-flight with my d162b25f95 (tests: remove
support for GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON, 2021-01-20) which removed the
rest of the GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON code.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add and apply a semantic patch for converting code that open-codes
CALLOC_ARRAY to use it instead. It shortens the code and infers the
element size automatically.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message given when a configuration variable that is
expected to have a boolean value has been improved.
* ak/config-bad-bool-error:
config: improve error message for boolean config
Currently invalid boolean config values return messages about 'bad
numeric', which is slightly misleading when the error was due to a
boolean value. We can improve the developer experience by returning a
boolean error message when we know the value is neither a bool text or
int.
before with an invalid boolean value of `non-boolean`, its unclear what
numeric is referring to:
fatal: bad numeric config value 'non-boolean' for 'commit.gpgsign': invalid unit
now the error message mentions `non-boolean` is a bad boolean value:
fatal: bad boolean config value 'non-boolean' for 'commit.gpgsign'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klotz <agc.klotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may
not be controversial.
* ab/detox-gettext-tests:
tests: remove uses of GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=false
tests: remove support for GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON
ci: remove GETTEXT_POISON jobs
Introduce two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs
via environment variables, and tweak the way GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
encodes variable/value pairs to make it more robust.
* ps/config-env-pairs:
config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function
config: store "git -c" variables using more robust format
config: parse more robust format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
config: extract function to parse config pairs
quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function
config: add new way to pass config via `--config-env`
git: add `--super-prefix` to usage string
This removes the ability to inject "poison" gettext() messages via the
GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON special test setup.
I initially added this as a compile-time option in bb946bba76 (i18n:
add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate unfriendly translator, 2011-02-22), and
most recently modified to be toggleable at runtime in
6cdccfce1e (i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option, 2018-11-08)..
The reason for its removal is that the trade-off of maintaining it
v.s. what it's getting us has long since flipped. When gettext was
integrated in 5e9637c629 (i18n: add infrastructure for translating
Git with gettext, 2011-11-18) there was understandable concern on the
Git ML that in marking messages for translation en-masse we'd
inadvertently mark plumbing messages. The GETTEXT_POISON facility was
a way to smoke those out via our test suite.
Nowadays however we're done (or almost entirely done) with any marking
of messages for translation. New messages are usually marked by their
authors, who'll know whether it makes sense to translate them or
not. If not any errors in marking the messages are much more likely to
be spotted in review than in the the initial deluge of i18n patches in
the 2011-2012 era.
So let's just remove this. This leaves the test suite in a state where
we still have a lot of test_i18n, C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
etc. uses. Subsequent commits will remove those too.
The change to t/lib-rebase.sh is a selective revert of the relevant
part of f2d17068fd (i18n: rebase-interactive: mark comments of squash
for translation, 2016-06-17), and the comment in
t/t3406-rebase-message.sh is from c7108bf9ed (i18n: rebase: mark
messages for translation, 2012-07-25).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to
force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm.
* ew/decline-core-abbrev:
core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
While we currently have the `GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS` environment variable
which can be used to pass runtime configuration data to git processes,
it's an internal implementation detail and not supposed to be used by
end users.
Next to being for internal use only, this way of passing config entries
has a major downside: the config keys need to be parsed as they contain
both key and value in a single variable. As such, it is left to the user
to escape any potentially harmful characters in the value, which is
quite hard to do if values are controlled by a third party.
This commit thus adds a new way of adding config entries via the
environment which gets rid of this shortcoming. If the user passes the
`GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=$n` environment variable, Git will parse environment
variable pairs `GIT_CONFIG_KEY_$i` and `GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_$i` for each
`i` in `[0,n)`.
While the same can be achieved with `git -c <name>=<value>`, one may
wish to not do so for potentially sensitive information. E.g. if one
wants to set `http.extraHeader` to contain an authentication token,
doing so via `-c` would trivially leak those credentials via e.g. ps(1),
which typically also shows command arguments.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit added a new format for $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS which
is able to robustly handle subsections with "=" in them. Let's start
writing the new format. Unfortunately, this does much less than you'd
hope, because "git -c" itself has the same ambiguity problem! But it's
still worth doing:
- we've now pushed the problem from the inter-process communication
into the "-c" command-line parser. This would free us up to later
add an unambiguous format there (e.g., separate arguments like "git
--config key value", etc).
- for --config-env, the parser already disallows "=" in the
environment variable name. So:
git --config-env section.with=equals.key=ENVVAR
will robustly set section.with=equals.key to the contents of
$ENVVAR.
The new test shows the improvement for --config-env.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we stuff config options into GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS, we shell-quote
each one as a single unit, like:
'section.one=value1' 'section.two=value2'
On the reading side, we de-quote to get the individual strings, and then
parse them by splitting on the first "=" we find. This format is
ambiguous, because an "=" may appear in a subsection. So the config
represented in a file by both:
[section "subsection=with=equals"]
key = value
and:
[section]
subsection = with=equals.key=value
ends up in this flattened format like:
'section.subsection=with=equals.key=value'
and we can't tell which was desired. We have traditionally resolved this
by taking the first "=" we see starting from the left, meaning that we
allowed arbitrary content in the value, but not in the subsection.
Let's make our environment format a bit more robust by separately
quoting the key and value. That turns those examples into:
'section.subsection=with=equals.key'='value'
and:
'section.subsection'='with=equals.key=value'
respectively, and we can tell the difference between them. We can detect
which format is in use for any given element of the list based on the
presence of the unquoted "=". That means we can continue to allow the
old format to work to support any callers which manually used the old
format, and we can even intermingle the two formats. The old format
wasn't documented, and nobody was supposed to be using it. But it's
likely that such callers exist in the wild, so it's nice if we can avoid
breaking them. Likewise, it may be possible to trigger an older version
of "git -c" that runs a script that calls into a newer version of "git
-c"; that new version would see the intermingled format.
This does create one complication, which is that the obvious format in
the new scheme for
[section]
some-bool
is:
'section.some-bool'
with no equals. We'd mistake that for an old-style variable. And it even
has the same meaning in the old style, but:
[section "with=equals"]
some-bool
does not. It would be:
'section.with=equals=some-bool'
which we'd take to mean:
[section]
with = equals=some-bool
in the old, ambiguous style. Likewise, we can't use:
'section.some-bool'=''
because that's ambiguous with an actual empty string. Instead, we'll
again use the shell-quoting to give us a hint, and use:
'section.some-bool'=
to show that we have no value.
Note that this commit just expands the reading side. We'll start writing
the new format via "git -c" in a future patch. In the meantime, the
existing "git -c" tests will make sure we didn't break reading the old
format. But we'll also add some explicit coverage of the two formats to
make sure we continue to handle the old one after we move the writing
side over.
And one final note: since we're now using the shell-quoting as a
semantically meaningful hint, this closes the door to us ever allowing
arbitrary shell quoting, like:
'a'shell'would'be'ok'with'this'.key=value
But we have never supported that (only what sq_quote() would produce),
and we are probably better off keeping things simple, robust, and
backwards-compatible, than trying to make it easier for humans. We'll
continue not to advertise the format of the variable to users, and
instead keep "git -c" as the recommended mechanism for setting config
(even if we are trying to be kind not to break users who may be relying
on the current undocumented format).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `git_config_parse_parameter` is responsible for parsing a
`foo.bar=baz`-formatted configuration key, sanitizing the key and then
processing it via the given callback function. Given that we're about to
add a second user which is going to process keys which already has keys
and values separated, this commit extracts a function
`config_parse_pair` which only does the sanitization and processing
part as a preparatory step.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While it's already possible to pass runtime configuration via `git -c
<key>=<value>`, it may be undesirable to use when the value contains
sensitive information. E.g. if one wants to set `http.extraHeader` to
contain an authentication token, doing so via `-c` would trivially leak
those credentials via e.g. ps(1), which typically also shows command
arguments.
To enable this usecase without leaking credentials, this commit
introduces a new switch `--config-env=<key>=<envvar>`. Instead of
directly passing a value for the given key, it instead allows the user
to specify the name of an environment variable. The value of that
variable will then be used as value of the key.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by
disabling abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be
insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with
SHA-1 repos today.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
[jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various subcommands of "git config" that takes value_regex
learn the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option
as a literal string.
* ds/config-literal-value:
config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp
config: implement --fixed-value with --get*
config: plumb --fixed-value into config API
config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented
t1300: add test for --replace-all with value-pattern
t1300: test "set all" mode with value-pattern
config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'
config: convert multi_replace to flags
The git_config_set_multivar_in_file_gently() and related methods now
take a 'flags' bitfield, so add a new bit representing the --fixed-value
option from 'git config'. This alters the purpose of the value_pattern
parameter to be an exact string match. This requires some initialization
changes in git_config_set_multivar_in_file_gently() and a new strcmp()
call in the matches() method.
The new CONFIG_FLAGS_FIXED_VALUE flag is initialized in builtin/config.c
based on the --fixed-value option, and that needs to be updated in
several callers.
This patch only affects some of the modes of 'git config', and the rest
will be completed in the next change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named,
especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string
matches instead of ERE pattern matches.
Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to
'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation
and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase,
too.
For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This
affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c,
which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'.
I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c
that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name
consistent with the rest of the variables.
This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that
creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should
automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings
currently use "[value_regex]" directly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will extend the flexibility of the config API. Before doing so, let's
take an existing 'int multi_replace' parameter and replace it with a new
'unsigned flags' parameter that can take multiple options as a bit field.
Update all callers that specified multi_replace to now specify the
CONFIG_FLAGS_MULTI_REPLACE flag. To add more clarity, extend the
documentation of git_config_set_multivar_in_file() including a clear
labeling of its arguments. Other config API methods in config.h require
only a change of the final parameter from 'int' to 'unsigned'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
hashmap_free(), hashmap_free_entries(), and hashmap_free_() have existed
for a while, but aren't necessarily the clearest names, especially with
hashmap_partial_clear() being added to the mix and lazy-initialization
now being supported. Peff suggested we adopt the following names[1]:
- hashmap_clear() - remove all entries and de-allocate any
hashmap-specific data, but be ready for reuse
- hashmap_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries themselves
- hashmap_partial_clear() - remove all entries but don't deallocate
table
- hashmap_partial_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries
This patch provides the new names and converts all existing callers over
to the new naming scheme.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201030125059.GA3277724@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* jk/leakfix:
submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value
config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days()
config: drop git_config_get_string_const()
config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const()
checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names
submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs
clear_pattern_list(): clear embedded hashmaps
We use git_config_get_string() to retrieve the expiry value in a newly
allocated string. But after parsing it, we never free it, leaking the
memory.
We could fix this with a free() obviously, but there's an even better
solution: we can use the non-allocating "tmp" variant of the function;
we only need it to be valid for the lifetime of our parse function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As evidenced by the leak fixes in the previous commit, the "const" in
git_config_get_string_const() clearly misleads people into thinking that
it does not allocate a copy of the string. We can fix this by renaming
it, but it's easier still to just drop it. Of the four remaining
callers:
- The one in git_config_parse_expiry() still needs to allocate, since
that's what its callers expect. We can just use the non-const
version and cast our pointer. Slightly ugly, but the damage is
contained in one spot.
- The two in apply are writing to global "const char *" variables, and
need to continue allocating. We often mark these as const because we
assign default string literals to them. But in this case we don't do
that, so we can just declare them as real "char *" pointers and use
the non-const version.
- The call in checkout doesn't actually need a copy; it can just use
the non-allocating "tmp" version of the function.
The function is also mentioned in the MyFirstContribution document. We
can swap that call out for the non-allocating "tmp" variant, which fits
well in the example given.
We'll drop the "configset" and "repo" variants, as well (which are
unused).
Note that this frees up the "const" name, so we could rename the "tmp"
variant back to that. But let's give some time for topics in flight to
adapt to the new code before doing so (if we do it too soon, the
function semantics will change but the compiler won't alert us).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two functions to get a single config string:
- git_config_get_string()
- git_config_get_string_const()
One might naively think that the first one allocates a new string and
the second one just points us to the internal configset storage. But
in fact they both allocate a new copy; the second one exists only to
avoid having to cast when using it with a const global which we never
intend to free.
The documentation for the function explains that clearly, but it seems
I'm not alone in being surprised by this. Of 17 calls to the function,
13 of them leak the resulting value.
We could obviously fix these by adding the appropriate free(). But it
would be simpler still if we actually had a non-allocating way to get
the string. There's git_config_get_value() but that doesn't quite do
what we want. If the config key is present but is a boolean with no
value (e.g., "[foo]bar" in the file), then we'll get NULL (whereas the
string versions will print an error and die).
So let's introduce a new variant, git_config_get_string_tmp(), that
behaves as these callers expect. We need a new name because we have new
semantics but the same function signature (so even if we converted the
four remaining callers, topics in flight might be surprised). The "tmp"
is because this value should only be held onto for a short time. In
practice it's rare for us to clear and refresh the configset,
invalidating the pointer, but hopefully the "tmp" makes callers think
about the lifetime. In each of the converted cases here the value only
needs to last within the local function or its immediate caller.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Compiling with gcc-10, -O2, and -fsanitize=undefined results in a
compiler warning:
config.c: In function ‘git_config_copy_or_rename_section_in_file’:
config.c:3170:17: error: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
3170 | output[0] = '\t';
| ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
config.c:3076:7: note: at offset -1 to object ‘buf’ with size 1024 declared here
3076 | char buf[1024];
| ^~~
This is a false positive. The interesting lines of code are:
int i;
char *output = buf;
...
for (i = 0; buf[i] && isspace(buf[i]); i++)
; /* do nothing */
...
int offset;
offset = section_name_match(&buf[i], old_name);
if (offset > 0) {
...
output += offset + i;
if (strlen(output) > 0) {
/*
* More content means there's
* a declaration to put on the
* next line; indent with a
* tab
*/
output -= 1;
output[0] = '\t';
}
}
So we do assign output to buf initially. Later we increment it based on
"offset" and "i" and then subtract "1" from it. That latter step is what
the compiler is complaining about; it could lead to going off the left
side of the array if "output == buf" at the moment of the subtraction.
For that to be the case, then "offset + i" would have to be 0. But that
can't happen:
- we know that "offset" is at least 1, since we're in a conditional
block that checks that
- we know that "i" is not negative, since it started at 0 and only
incremented over whitespace
So the sum must be at least 1, and therefore it's OK to subtract one
from "output".
But that's not quite the whole story. Since "i" is an int, it could in
theory be possible to overflow to negative (when counting whitespace on
a very large string). But we know that's impossible because we're
counting the 1024-byte buffer we just fed to fgets(), so it can never be
larger than that.
Switching the type of "i" to "unsigned" makes the warning go away, so
let's do that.
Arguably size_t is an even better type (for this and for the other
length fields), but switching to it produces a similar but distinct
warning:
config.c: In function ‘git_config_copy_or_rename_section_in_file’:
config.c:3170:13: error: array subscript -1 is outside array bounds of ‘char[1024]’ [-Werror=array-bounds]
3170 | output[0] = '\t';
| ~~~~~~^~~
config.c:3076:7: note: while referencing ‘buf’
3076 | char buf[1024];
| ^~~
If we were to ever switch off of fgets() to strbuf_getline() or similar,
we'd probably need to use size_t to avoid other overflow problems. But
for now we know we're safe because of the small fixed size of our
buffer.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the last few commits have made it possible for the config parser
to handle config files up to the limits of size_t, the rest of the code
isn't really ready for this. In particular, we often feed the keys as
strings into printf "%s" format specifiers. And because the printf
family of functions must return an int to specify the result, they
complain. Here are two concrete examples (using glibc; we're in
uncharted territory here so results may vary):
Generate a gigantic .gitmodules file like this:
git submodule add /some/other/repo foo
{
printf '[submodule "'
perl -e 'print "a" x 2**31'
echo '"]path = foo'
} >.gitmodules
git commit -m 'huge gitmodule'
then try this:
$ git show
BUG: strbuf.c:397: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)
The problem is that we end up calling:
strbuf_addf(&sb, "submodule.%s.ignore", submodule_name);
which relies on vsnprintf(), and that function has no way to report back
a size larger than INT_MAX.
Taking that same file, try this:
git config --file=.gitmodules --list --name-only
On my system it produces an output with exactly 4GB of spaces. I
confirmed in a debugger that we reach the config callback with the key
intact: it's 2147483663 bytes and full of a's. But when we print it with
this call:
printf("%s%c", key_, term);
we just get the spaces.
So given the fact that these are insane cases which we have no need to
support, the weird behavior from feeding the results to printf even if
the code is careful, and the possibility of uncareful code introducing
its own integer truncation issues, let's just declare INT_MAX as a limit
for parsing config files.
We'll enforce the limit in get_next_char(), which generalizes over all
sources (blobs, files, etc) and covers any element we're parsing
(whether section, key, value, etc). For simplicity, the limit is over
the length of the _whole_ file, so you couldn't have two 1GB values in
the same file. This should be perfectly fine, as the expected size for
config files is generally kilobytes at most.
With this patch both cases above will yield:
fatal: bad config line 1 in file .gitmodules
That's not an amazing error message, but the parser isn't set up to
provide specific messages (it just breaks out of the parsing loop and
gives that generic error even if see a syntactic issue). And we really
wouldn't expect to see this case outside of somebody maliciously probing
the limits of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the config parsing infrastructure is limited in what it can
parse only by the size of memory, because it parses character by
character, building up strbufs for keys, values, etc. One exception is
the "baselen" value we keep in git_parse_source(), which is an int.
That stores the length of the section.subsection base, to which we can
then append individual key names (by truncating back to the baselen with
strbuf_setlen(), and then appending characters for the key name). But
because it's an int, if we see an absurdly long section or subsection,
we may overflow the integer, wrapping negative. That negative value is
then implicitly cast to a size_t when we pass it to strbuf_setlen(),
creating a very large value and triggering a BUG. For example:
$ {
printf '[foo "'
perl -e 'print "a" x 2**31'
echo '"]bar = value'
} >huge
$ git config --file=huge --list
fatal: BUG: strbuf_setlen() beyond buffer
While this is obviously a silly case that we don't care about
supporting, it's worth fixing it by switching to a size_t for a few
reasons:
- we should try to avoid hitting BUG assertions at all
- avoiding integer truncation or overflow sets a good example and
makes it easier to audit the code for more important issues
- the BUG outcome is what happens in _this_ instance, because we wrap
negative. If we used a 2**32 subsection, we'd wrap to a small
positive value and actually generate wrong output (the subsection of
our key would be truncated).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with the recent change to parse_config_key(), the best type to return
a string length is a size_t, as it won't cause integer truncation for a
gigantic key. And as with that change, this is mostly a clarity /
hygiene issue for now, as our config parser would choke on such a large
key anyway.
There are a few ripple effects within the config code, as callers switch
to using size_t. I also adjusted a few related variables that iterate
over strings. The most unexpected change is that a call to strbuf_addf()
had to switch to strbuf_add(). We can't use a size_t with "%.*s",
because printf precisions must have type "int" (we could cast, of
course, but that would miss the point of using size_t in the first
place).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We compute the length of a subset of a string, but then use that length
only to feed a "%.*s" printf placeholder for the same string. We can
just use "%s" to achieve the same thing.
The variable became useless in cb891a5989 (Use a strbuf for building up
section header and key/value pair strings., 2007-12-14), which swapped
out a write() which _did_ use the length for a strbuf_addf() call.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We return the length to a subset of a string using an "int *"
out-parameter. This is fine most of the time, as we'd expect config keys
to be relatively short, but it could behave oddly if we had a gigantic
config key. A more appropriate type is size_t.
Let's switch over, which lets our callers use size_t as appropriate
(they are bound by our type because they must pass the out-parameter as
a pointer). This is mostly just a cleanup to make it clear this code
handles long strings correctly. In practice, our config parser already
chokes on long key names (because of a similar int/size_t mixup!).
When doing an int/size_t conversion, we have to be careful that nobody
was trying to assign a negative value to the variable. I manually
confirmed that for each case here. They tend to just feed the result to
xmemdupz() or similar; in a few cases I adjusted the parameter types for
helper functions to make sure the size_t is preserved.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables
(e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y.
branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated.
* bw/remote-rename-update-config:
remote rename/remove: gently handle remote.pushDefault config
config: provide access to the current line number
remote rename/remove: handle branch.<name>.pushRemote config values
remote: clean-up config callback
remote: clean-up by returning early to avoid one indentation
pull --rebase/remote rename: document and honor single-letter abbreviations rebase types
"git config" learned to show in which "scope", in addition to in
which file, each config setting comes from.
* mr/show-config-scope:
config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config value
submodule-config: add subomdule config scope
config: teach git_config_source to remember its scope
config: preserve scope in do_git_config_sequence
config: clarify meaning of command line scoping
config: split repo scope to local and worktree
config: make scope_name non-static and rename it
t1300: create custom config file without special characters
t1300: fix over-indented HERE-DOCs
config: fix typo in variable name
Users are nowadays trained to see message from CLI tools in the form
<file>:<lno>: …
To be able to give such messages when notifying the user about
configurations in any config file, it is currently only possible to get
the file name (if the value originates from a file to begin with) via
`current_config_name()`. Now it is also possible to query the current line
number for the configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the changes to teach git_config_source to remember scope
information submodule-config.c never needed to consider the question of
config scope. Even though zeroing out git_config_source is still
correct and preserved the previous behavior of setting the scope to
CONFIG_SCOPE_UNKNOWN, it's better to be explicit about such situations
by explicitly setting the scope. As none of the current config_scope
enumerations make sense we create CONFIG_SCOPE_SUBMODULE to describe the
situation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are many situations where the scope of a config command is known
beforehand, such as passing of '--local', '--file', etc. to an
invocation of git config. However, this information is lost when moving
from builtin/config.c to /config.c. This historically hasn't been a big
deal, but to prepare for the upcoming --show-scope option we teach
git_config_source to keep track of the source and the config machinery
to use that information to set current_parsing_scope appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
do_git_config_sequence operated under the assumption that it was correct
to set current_parsing_scope to CONFIG_SCOPE_UNKNOWN as part of the
cleanup it does after it finishes execution. This is incorrect, as it
blows away the current_parsing_scope if do_git_config_sequence is called
recursively. As such situations are rare (git config running with the
'--blob' option is one example) this has yet to cause a problem, but the
upcoming '--show-scope' option will experience issues in that case, lets
teach do_git_config_sequence to preserve the current_parsing_scope from
before it started execution.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CONFIG_SCOPE_CMDLINE is generally used in the code to refer to config
values passed in via the -c option. Options passed in using this
mechanism share similar scoping characteristics with the --file and
--blob options of the 'config' command, namely that they are only in use
for that single invocation of git, and that they supersede the normal
system/global/local hierarchy. This patch introduces
CONFIG_SCOPE_COMMAND to reflect this new idea, which also makes
CONFIG_SCOPE_CMDLINE redundant.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously when iterating through git config variables, worktree config
and local config were both considered "CONFIG_SCOPE_REPO". This was
never a problem before as no one had needed to differentiate between the
two cases, but future functionality may care whether or not the config
options come from a worktree or from the repository's actual local
config file. For example, the planned feature to add a '--show-scope'
to config to allow a user to see which scope listed config options come
from would confuse users if it just printed 'repo' rather than 'local'
or 'worktree' as the documentation would lead them to expect. As well
as the additional benefit of making the implementation look more like
how the documentation describes the interface.
To accomplish this we split out what was previously considered repo
scope to be local and worktree.
The clients of 'current_config_scope()' who cared about
CONFIG_SCOPE_REPO are also modified to similarly care about
CONFIG_SCOPE_WORKTREE and CONFIG_SCOPE_LOCAL to preserve previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To prepare for the upcoming --show-scope option, we require the ability
to convert a config_scope enum to a string. As this was originally
implemented as a static function 'scope_name()' in
t/helper/test-config.c, we expose it via config.h and give it a less
ambiguous name 'config_scope_name()'
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function for inserting a C string into a strbuf. Use it
throughout the source to get rid of magic string length constants and
explicit strlen() calls.
Like strbuf_addstr(), implement it as an inline function to avoid the
implicit strlen() calls to cause runtime overhead.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Eric Wong
Johannes Schindelin
Derrick Stolee
Patrick Steinhardt
René Scharfe
Andrew Klotz
Jeff King
Elijah Newren
Bert Wesarg
Matthew Rogers