Subject: [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Fix actionless dispatch for non-existent objects

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:47:38 +0100

When gitweb URL does not provide action explicitly, e.g.

  http://git.example.org/repo.git/branch

dispatch() tries to guess action (view to be used) based on remaining
parameters.  Among others it is based on the type of requested object,
which gave problems when asking for non-existent branch or file (for
example misspelt name).

Now undefined $action from dispatch() should not result in problems.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
---
I'm not sure if this is the way to fix it, by erroring-out in
dispatch() and leaving $action undefined.

Testsuite passes, but I have not examined output intensively.

 gitweb/gitweb.perl                     |    4 +++-
 t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index f884dfe..e2e04df 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1123,8 +1123,10 @@ sub dispatch {
 	if (!defined $action) {
 		if (defined $hash) {
 			$action = git_get_type($hash);
+			$action or die_error(404, "Object does not exist");
 		} elsif (defined $hash_base && defined $file_name) {
 			$action = git_get_type("$hash_base:$file_name");
+			$action or die_error(404, "File or directory does not exist");
 		} elsif (defined $project) {
 			$action = 'summary';
 		} else {
@@ -2391,7 +2393,7 @@ sub get_feed_info {
 	return unless (defined $project);
 	# some views should link to OPML, or to generic project feed,
 	# or don't have specific feed yet (so they should use generic)
-	return if ($action =~ /^(?:tags|heads|forks|tag|search)$/x);
+	return if (!$action || $action =~ /^(?:tags|heads|forks|tag|search)$/x);
 
 	my $branch;
 	# branches refs uses 'refs/heads/' prefix (fullname) to differentiate
diff --git a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
index ab24917..0f771c6 100755
--- a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
+++ b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
@@ -475,6 +475,14 @@ test_expect_success \
 	'gitweb_run "" "/.git/master:foo/"'
 
 test_expect_success \
+	'path_info: project/branch (non-existent)' \
+	'gitweb_run "" "/.git/non-existent"'
+
+test_expect_success \
+	'path_info: project/branch:filename (non-existent branch)' \
+	'gitweb_run "" "/.git/non-existent:non-existent"'
+
+test_expect_success \
 	'path_info: project/branch:file (non-existent)' \
 	'gitweb_run "" "/.git/master:non-existent"'