Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix bug regarding ~/ expansion in init.templateDir

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 13:21:04 +0900

Matheus Tavares <[email-masked]> writes:

> We used to read the init.templateDir setting at builtin/init-db.c using
> a git_config() callback that, in turn, called git_config_pathname(). To
> simplify the config reading logic at this file and plug a memory leak,
> this was replaced by a direct call to git_config_get_value() at
> e4de4502e6 ("init: remove git_init_db_config() while fixing leaks",
> 2021-03-14). However, this function doesn't provide path expanding
> semantics, like git_config_pathname() does, so paths with '~/' and
> '~user/' are treated literally. This makes 'git init' fail to handle
> init.templateDir paths using these constructs:
>
> 	$ git config init.templateDir '~/templates_dir'
> 	$ git init
> 	'warning: templates not found in ~/templates_dir'
>
> Replace the git_config_get_value() call by git_config_get_pathname(),
> which does the '~/' and '~user/' expansions. Also add a regression test.
> Note that unlike git_config_get_value(), the config cache does not own
> the memory for the path returned by git_config_get_pathname(), so we
> must free() it.
>
> Reported on IRC by rkta.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <[email-masked]>
> ---

The patch looks like a clean regression fix.

> +init_no_templatedir_env () {
> +	(
> +		sane_unset GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
> +		NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=t &&
> +		export NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
> +		git init "$1"

	(
		sane_unset GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
		NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=t git init "$1"
	)

would be a shorter way to write it, but this is inheriting from the
original that used longhand, so it is OK, I guess.  We cannot lose
the subprocess because we do not want to lose GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR in
tests that run after a test that uses this function.

OK.  We could lose the outermost {} but let's take the patch as-is.

Thanks.

> +	)
> +}
> +
>  test_expect_success 'init with init.templatedir set' '
>  	mkdir templatedir-source &&
>  	echo Content >templatedir-source/file &&
>  	test_config_global init.templatedir "${HOME}/templatedir-source" &&
> -	(
> -		mkdir templatedir-set &&
> -		cd templatedir-set &&
> -		sane_unset GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
> -		NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=t &&
> -		export NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
> -		git init
> -	) &&
> +
> +	init_no_templatedir_env templatedir-set &&
>  	test_cmp templatedir-source/file templatedir-set/.git/file
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'init with init.templatedir using ~ expansion' '
> +	mkdir -p templatedir-source &&
> +	echo Content >templatedir-source/file &&
> +	test_config_global init.templatedir "~/templatedir-source" &&
> +
> +	init_no_templatedir_env templatedir-expansion &&
> +	test_cmp templatedir-source/file templatedir-expansion/.git/file
> +'
> +
>  test_expect_success 'init --bare/--shared overrides system/global config' '
>  	test_config_global core.bare false &&
>  	test_config_global core.sharedRepository 0640 &&