Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] setup.c: re-fix d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when ..

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:50:18 +0700

Commit d95138e [1] fixes a .git file problem by setting GIT_WORK_TREE
whenever GIT_DIR is set. It sounded harmless because we handle
GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE side by side for most commands, with two
exceptions: git-init and git-clone.

"git clone" is not happy with d95138e. This command ignores GIT_DIR
but respects GIT_WORK_TREE [2] [3] which means it used to run fine
from a hook, where GIT_DIR was set but GIT_WORK_TREE was not (*). With
d95138e, GIT_WORK_TREE is set all the time and git-clone interprets
that as "I give you order to put the worktree here", usually against
the user's intention.

The solution in d95138e is reverted in this commit. Instead we reuse
the solution from c056261 [4]. c056261 fixes another setup-messed-
up-by-alias by saving and restoring env and spawning a new process,
but for git-clone and git-init only. Now I conclude that setup-messed-
up-by-alias is always evil. So the env restoration is done for _all_
commands, including external ones, whenever aliases are involved. It
fixes what d95138e tries to fix. And it does not upset git-clone-
inside-hooks.

The test from d95138e remains to verify it's not broken by this. A new
test is added to make sure git-clone-inside-hooks remains happy.

(*) GIT_WORK_TREE was not set _most of the time_. In some cases
    GIT_WORK_TREE is set and git-clone will behave differently. The
    use of GIT_WORK_TREE to direct git-clone to put work tree
    elsewhere looks like a mistake because it causes surprises this
    way. But that's a separate story.

[1] d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like
             $GIT_DIR - 2015-06-26)
[2] 2beebd2 (clone: create intermediate directories of destination
             repo - 2008-06-25)
[3] 20ccef4 (make git-clone GIT_WORK_TREE aware - 2007-07-06)
[4] c056261 (git potty: restore environments after alias expansion -
             2014-06-08)

Reported-by: Anthony Sottile <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
---
 environment.c    |  2 --
 git.c            | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 t/t5601-clone.sh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 2da7fe2..1cc4aab 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ void set_git_work_tree(const char *new_work_tree)
 	}
 	git_work_tree_initialized = 1;
 	work_tree = xstrdup(real_path(new_work_tree));
-	if (setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, work_tree, 1))
-		die("could not set GIT_WORK_TREE to '%s'", work_tree);
 }
 
 const char *get_git_work_tree(void)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 6ce7043..1a7d399 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -226,7 +226,6 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged)
 static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 {
 	int envchanged = 0, ret = 0, saved_errno = errno;
-	const char *subdir;
 	int count, option_count;
 	const char **new_argv;
 	const char *alias_command;
@@ -234,7 +233,7 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 	int unused_nongit;
 
 	save_env_before_alias();
-	subdir = setup_git_directory_gently(&unused_nongit);
+	setup_git_directory_gently(&unused_nongit);
 
 	alias_command = (*argv)[0];
 	alias_string = alias_lookup(alias_command);
@@ -292,8 +291,7 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 		ret = 1;
 	}
 
-	if (subdir && chdir(subdir))
-		die_errno("Cannot change to '%s'", subdir);
+	restore_env();
 
 	errno = saved_errno;
 
@@ -308,7 +306,6 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
  * RUN_SETUP for reading from the configuration file.
  */
 #define NEED_WORK_TREE		(1<<3)
-#define NO_SETUP		(1<<4)
 
 struct cmd_struct {
 	const char *cmd;
@@ -390,7 +387,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{ "cherry", cmd_cherry, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "cherry-pick", cmd_cherry_pick, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
 	{ "clean", cmd_clean, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
-	{ "clone", cmd_clone, NO_SETUP },
+	{ "clone", cmd_clone },
 	{ "column", cmd_column, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
 	{ "commit", cmd_commit, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
 	{ "commit-tree", cmd_commit_tree, RUN_SETUP },
@@ -416,8 +413,8 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{ "hash-object", cmd_hash_object },
 	{ "help", cmd_help },
 	{ "index-pack", cmd_index_pack, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
-	{ "init", cmd_init_db, NO_SETUP },
-	{ "init-db", cmd_init_db, NO_SETUP },
+	{ "init", cmd_init_db },
+	{ "init-db", cmd_init_db },
 	{ "interpret-trailers", cmd_interpret_trailers, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
 	{ "log", cmd_log, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "ls-files", cmd_ls_files, RUN_SETUP },
@@ -531,9 +528,13 @@ static void handle_builtin(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	builtin = get_builtin(cmd);
 	if (builtin) {
-		if (saved_env_before_alias && (builtin->option & NO_SETUP))
-			restore_env();
-		else
+		/*
+		 * XXX: if we can figure out cases where it is _safe_
+		 * to do, we can avoid spawning a new process when
+		 * saved_env_before_alias is true
+		 * (i.e. setup_git_dir* has been run once)
+		 */
+		if (!saved_env_before_alias)
 			exit(run_builtin(builtin, argc, argv));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 9b34f3c..31b4658 100755
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -65,6 +65,29 @@ test_expect_success 'clone respects GIT_WORK_TREE' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone from hooks' '
+
+	test_create_repo r0 &&
+	cd r0 &&
+	test_commit initial &&
+	cd .. &&
+	git init r1 &&
+	cd r1 &&
+	cat >.git/hooks/pre-commit <<-\EOF &&
+	#!/bin/sh
+	git clone ../r0 ../r2
+	exit 1
+	EOF
+	chmod u+x .git/hooks/pre-commit &&
+	: >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_must_fail git commit -m invoke-hook &&
+	cd .. &&
+	test_cmp r0/.git/HEAD r2/.git/HEAD &&
+	test_cmp r0/initial.t r2/initial.t
+
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'clone creates intermediate directories' '
 
 	git clone src long/path/to/dst &&
-- 
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