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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, cmn@elego•de,
	A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail•com>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon•org>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmxd7flkw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr52jfm8i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:53:49 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
>
>> I wonder if the right solution is for us to be more picky about what can
>> be found in $GIT_DIR. Maybe matching all-uppercase, or starting with
>> "refs/", which I think would match existing convention?
>
> I think we've discussed tightening it a few years ago already.
>
> HEAD, MERGE_HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, etc. all are "^[_A-Z]*$" and it may even be
> a good idea to insist "^[_A-Z]*HEAD$" or even "^([A-Z][A-Z]*_)?HEAD$".

Perhaps like this? Only compile tested...

 sha1_name.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index ba976b4..5effb1a 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -261,6 +261,23 @@ static char *substitute_branch_name(const char **string, int *len)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static int is_kind_of_head(const char *str)
+{
+	int len = strlen(str) - 4;
+	if (len < 0 || strcmp(str + len, "HEAD"))
+		return 0;
+	if (!len)
+		return 1;
+	if (str[--len] != '_' || !len)
+		return 0;
+	while (len) {
+		char ch = str[--len];
+		if (ch < 'A' || 'Z' < ch)
+			return 0;
+	}
+	return 1;
+}
+
 int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref)
 {
 	char *last_branch = substitute_branch_name(&str, &len);
@@ -274,6 +291,8 @@ int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref)
 		unsigned char *this_result;
 		int flag;
 
+		if (p == ref_rev_parse_rules && !is_kind_of_head(str))
+			continue;
 		this_result = refs_found ? sha1_from_ref : sha1;
 		mksnpath(fullref, sizeof(fullref), *p, len, str);
 		r = resolve_ref(fullref, this_result, 1, &flag);
@@ -302,6 +321,8 @@ int dwim_log(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **log)
 		char path[PATH_MAX];
 		const char *ref, *it;
 
+		if (p == ref_rev_parse_rules && !is_kind_of_head(str))
+			continue;
 		mksnpath(path, sizeof(path), *p, len, str);
 		ref = resolve_ref(path, hash, 1, NULL);
 		if (!ref)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 21:10 [PATCH v3 00/22] Clean up refname checks and normalization Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/22] t1402: add some more tests Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/22] git check-ref-format: add options --allow-onelevel and --refspec-pattern Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/22] Change bad_ref_char() to return a boolean value Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/22] Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/22] Refactor check_refname_format() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/22] Do not allow ".lock" at the end of any refname component Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/22] Make collapse_slashes() allocate memory for its result Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/22] Inline function refname_format_print() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/22] Change check_refname_format() to reject unnormalized refnames Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/22] resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/22] resolve_ref(): use prefixcmp() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/22] resolve_ref(): only follow a symlink that contains a valid, normalized refname Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/22] resolve_ref(): turn buffer into a proper string as soon as possible Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23  8:17   ` Thomas Rast
2011-09-23 13:11     ` Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23 13:38       ` [PATCH 1/1] get_sha1_hex(): do not read past a NUL character Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23 18:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-05 19:11           ` Thomas Rast
2011-10-05 20:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/22] resolve_ref(): extract a function get_packed_ref() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 15/22] resolve_ref(): do not follow incorrectly-formatted symbolic refs Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 16/22] remote: use xstrdup() instead of strdup() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 17/22] remote: avoid passing NULL to read_ref() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 18/22] resolve_ref(): verify that the input refname has the right format Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references Michael Haggerty
2011-10-11 16:16   ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 17:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 18:07       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-10-11 20:14         ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 20:39           ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 21:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 22:54               ` Jeff King
2011-10-12 16:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 23:07           ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 23:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12  2:11               ` Jeff King
2011-10-12  4:41                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12  4:50                   ` Jeff King
2011-10-12 17:48                     ` [PATCH 1/2] refs.c: move dwim_ref()/dwim_log() from sha1_name.c Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 17:49                     ` [PATCH 2/2] Restrict ref-like names immediately below $GIT_DIR Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 18:01                       ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 18:07                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 21:42                           ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 22:26                             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19  5:28                             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19  6:19                               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 15:18                                 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-19 17:10                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 19:29                               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 19:39                                 ` [PATCH] resolve_ref(): report breakage to the caller without warning Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 20:31                                 ` [PATCH 2/2] Restrict ref-like names immediately below $GIT_DIR Michael Haggerty
2011-10-19 20:39                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 21:51                       ` Jeff King
2011-10-12  2:56               ` Re* [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 19:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 19:26               ` Jeff King
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 20/22] resolve_ref(): also treat a too-long SHA1 as invalid Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 21/22] resolve_ref(): expand documentation Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 22/22] add_ref(): verify that the refname is formatted correctly Michael Haggerty

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