Subject: [PATCH v3] sha1_file: do not add own object directory as alternate

From: Ephrim Khong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:29:45 +0200

When adding alternate object directories, we try not to add the
directory of the current repository to avoid cycles.  Unfortunately,
that test was broken, since it compared an absolute with a relative
path.

Signed-off-by: Ephrim Khong <[email-masked]>
---
Since v2: Added Johannes' comments.

 sha1_file.c                        | 13 +++++++++----
 t/t7702-repack-cyclic-alternate.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t7702-repack-cyclic-alternate.sh

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 34d527f..88fd168 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ static struct alternate_object_database **alt_odb_tail;
  * SHA1, an extra slash for the first level indirection, and the
  * terminating NUL.
  */
-static int link_alt_odb_entry(const char *entry, const char *relative_base, int depth)
+static int link_alt_odb_entry(const char *entry, const char *relative_base,
+	int depth, const char *normalized_objdir)
 {
-	const char *objdir = get_object_directory();
 	struct alternate_object_database *ent;
 	struct alternate_object_database *alt;
 	int pfxlen, entlen;
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(const char *entry, const char *relative_base, int
 			return -1;
 		}
 	}
-	if (!strcmp(ent->base, objdir)) {
+	if (!strcmp_icase(ent->base, normalized_objdir)) {
 		free(ent);
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, int len, int sep,
 	struct string_list entries = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
 	char *alt_copy;
 	int i;
+	struct strbuf objdirbuf = STRBUF_INIT;

 	if (depth > 5) {
 		error("%s: ignoring alternate object stores, nesting too deep.",
@@ -351,6 +352,9 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, int len, int sep,
 		return;
 	}

+	strbuf_addstr(&objdirbuf, absolute_path(get_object_directory()));
+	normalize_path_copy(objdirbuf.buf, objdirbuf.buf);
+
 	alt_copy = xmemdupz(alt, len);
 	string_list_split_in_place(&entries, alt_copy, sep, -1);
 	for (i = 0; i < entries.nr; i++) {
@@ -361,11 +365,12 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, int len, int sep,
 			error("%s: ignoring relative alternate object store %s",
 					relative_base, entry);
 		} else {
-			link_alt_odb_entry(entry, relative_base, depth);
+			link_alt_odb_entry(entry, relative_base, depth, objdirbuf.buf);
 		}
 	}
 	string_list_clear(&entries, 0);
 	free(alt_copy);
+	strbuf_release(&objdirbuf);
 }

 void read_info_alternates(const char * relative_base, int depth)
diff --git a/t/t7702-repack-cyclic-alternate.sh b/t/t7702-repack-cyclic-alternate.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8341d46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t7702-repack-cyclic-alternate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2014 Ephrim Khong
+#
+
+test_description='repack involving cyclic alternate'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=.git//../.git/objects &&
+	export GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY &&
+	touch a &&
+	git add a &&
+	git commit -m 1 &&
+	git repack -adl &&
+	echo "$(pwd)"/.git/objects/../objects >.git/objects/info/alternates
+'
+
+test_expect_success 're-packing repository with itsself as alternate' '
+	git repack -adl &&
+	git fsck
+'
+
+test_done
-- 
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