The recent fixes to "fsck --connectivity-only" load all of
the objects with their correct types. This keeps the
connectivity-only code path close to the regular one, but it
also introduces some unnecessary inefficiency. While getting
the type of an object is cheap compared to actually opening
and parsing the object (as the non-connectivity-only case
would do), it's still not free.
For reachable non-blob objects, we end up having to parse
them later anyway (to see what they point to), making our
type lookup here redundant.
For unreachable objects, we might never hit them at all in
the reachability traversal, making the lookup completely
wasted. And in some cases, we might have quite a few
unreachable objects (e.g., when alternates are used for
shared object storage between repositories, it's normal for
there to be objects reachable from other repositories but
not the one running fsck).
The comment in mark_object_for_connectivity() claims two
benefits to getting the type up front:
1. We need to know the types during fsck_walk(). (And not
explicitly mentioned, but we also need them when
printing the types of broken or dangling commits).
We can address this by lazy-loading the types as
necessary. Most objects never need this lazy-load at
all, because they fall into one of these categories:
a. Reachable from our tips, and are coerced into the
correct type as we traverse (e.g., a parent link
will call lookup_commit(), which converts OBJ_NONE
to OBJ_COMMIT).
b. Unreachable, but not at the tip of a chunk of
unreachable history. We only mention the tips as
"dangling", so an unreachable commit which links
to hundreds of other objects needs only report the
type of the tip commit.
2. It serves as a cross-check that the coercion in (1a) is
correct (i.e., we'll complain about a parent link that
points to a blob). But we get most of this for free
already, because right after coercing, we'll parse any
non-blob objects. So we'd notice then if we expected a
commit and got a blob.
The one exception is when we expect a blob, in which
case we never actually read the object contents.
So this is a slight weakening, but given that the whole
point of --connectivity-only is to sacrifice some data
integrity checks for speed, this seems like an
acceptable tradeoff.
Here are before and after timings for an extreme case with
~5M reachable objects and another ~12M unreachable (it's the
torvalds/linux repository on GitHub, connected to shared
storage for all of the other kernel forks):
[before]
$ time git fsck --no-dangling --connectivity-only
real 3m4.323s
user 1m25.121s
sys 1m38.710s
[after]
$ time git fsck --no-dangling --connectivity-only
real 0m51.497s
user 0m49.575s
sys 0m1.776s
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of dying when fsck hits a malformed tree object, log the error
like any other and continue. Now fsck can tell the user which tree is
bad, too.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reporting broken links between commits/trees/blobs, it would be
quite helpful at times if the user would be told how the object is
supposed to be reachable.
With the new --name-objects option, git-fsck will try to do exactly
that: name the objects in a way that shows how they are reachable.
For example, when some reflog got corrupted and a blob is missing that
should not be, the user might want to remove the corresponding reflog
entry. This option helps them find that entry: `git fsck` will now
report something like this:
broken link from tree b5eb6ff... (refs/stash@{<date>}~37:)
to blob ec5cf80...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will need this in the next commit, where fsck will be taught to
optionally name the objects when reporting issues about them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If fsck_options->name_objects is initialized, and if it already has
name(s) for the object(s) that are to be the starting point(s) for
fsck_walk(), then that function will now add names for the objects
that were walked.
This will be highly useful for teaching git-fsck to identify root causes
for broken links, which is the task for the next patch in this series.
Note that this patch opts for decorating the objects with plain strings
instead of full-blown structs (à la `struct rev_name` in the code of
the `git name-rev` command), for several reasons:
- the code is much simpler than if it had to work with structs that
describe arbitrarily long names such as "master~14^2~5:builtin/am.c",
- the string processing is actually quite light-weight compared to the
rest of fsck's operation,
- the caller of fsck_walk() is expected to provide names for the
starting points, and using plain and simple strings is just the
easiest way to do that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
potential error and warn.
* jc/fsck-nul-in-commit:
fsck: detect and warn a commit with embedded NUL
fsck_commit_buffer(): do not special case the last validation
Even though a Git commit object is designed to be capable of storing
any binary data as its payload, in practice people use it to describe
the changes in textual form, and tools like "git log" are designed to
treat the payload as text.
Detect and warn when we see any commit object with a NUL byte in
it.
Note that a NUL byte in the header part is already detected as a
grave error. This change is purely about the message part.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pattern taken by all the validations in this function is:
if (notice a violation exists) {
err = report(... VIOLATION_KIND ...);
if (err)
return err;
}
where report() returns zero if specified kind of violation is set to
be ignored, and otherwise shows an error message and returns non-zero.
The last validation in the function immediately before the function
returns 0 to declare "all good" can cheat and directly return the
return value from report(), and the current code does so, i.e.
if (notice a violation exists)
return report(... VIOLATION_KIND ...);
return 0;
But that is a selfish code that declares it is the ultimate and
final form of the function, never to be enhanced later. To allow
and invite future enhancements, make the last test follow the same
pattern.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these cases can be converted to use ALLOC_ARRAY or
REALLOC_ARRAY, which has two advantages:
1. It automatically checks the array-size multiplication
for overflow.
2. It always uses sizeof(*array) for the element-size,
so that it can never go out of sync with the declared
type of the array.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More transition from "unsigned char[40]" to "struct object_id".
This needed a few merge fixups, but is mostly disentangled from other
topics.
* bc/object-id:
remote: convert functions to struct object_id
Remove get_object_hash.
Convert struct object to object_id
Add several uses of get_object_hash.
object: introduce get_object_hash macro.
ref_newer: convert to use struct object_id
push_refs_with_export: convert to struct object_id
get_remote_heads: convert to struct object_id
parse_fetch: convert to use struct object_id
add_sought_entry_mem: convert to struct object_id
Convert struct ref to use object_id.
sha1_file: introduce has_object_file helper.
We check the return value of verify_header() for commits already, so do
the same for tags as well.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference
to the hash member of the oid member of struct object. This provides no
functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
struct object is one of the major data structures dealing with object
IDs. Convert it to use struct object_id instead of an unsigned char
array. Convert get_object_hash to refer to the new member as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is
dereferenced to use get_object_hash. Most instances that are passed to
functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as
get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted
to use struct object_id instead, are not converted.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Allow ignoring fsck errors on specific set of known-to-be-bad
objects, and also tweaking warning level of various kinds of non
critical breakages reported.
* js/fsck-opt:
fsck: support ignoring objects in `git fsck` via fsck.skiplist
fsck: git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing
fsck: introduce `git fsck --connectivity-only`
fsck: support demoting errors to warnings
fsck: document the new receive.fsck.<msg-id> options
fsck: allow upgrading fsck warnings to errors
fsck: optionally ignore specific fsck issues completely
fsck: disallow demoting grave fsck errors to warnings
fsck: add a simple test for receive.fsck.<msg-id>
fsck: make fsck_tag() warn-friendly
fsck: handle multiple authors in commits specially
fsck: make fsck_commit() warn-friendly
fsck: make fsck_ident() warn-friendly
fsck: report the ID of the error/warning
fsck (receive-pack): allow demoting errors to warnings
fsck: offer a function to demote fsck errors to warnings
fsck: provide a function to parse fsck message IDs
fsck: introduce identifiers for fsck messages
fsck: introduce fsck options
A fix to a minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era that started
complaining about a body-less tag object when it lacks a separator
empty line after its header to separate it with a non-existent body.
* jc/fsck-retire-require-eoh:
fsck: it is OK for a tag and a commit to lack the body
When fsck validates a commit or a tag, it scans each line in the
header of the object using helper functions such as "start_with()",
etc. that work on a NUL terminated buffer, but before a1e920a0
(index-pack: terminate object buffers with NUL, 2014-12-08), the
validation functions were fed the object data in a piece of memory
that is not necessarily terminated with a NUL.
We added a helper function require_end_of_header() to be called at
the beginning of these validation functions to insist that the
object data contains an empty line before its end. The theory is
that the validating functions will notice and stop when it hits an
empty line as a normal end of header (or a required header line that
is missing) without scanning past the end of potentially not
NUL-terminated buffer.
But the theory forgot that in the older days, Git itself happily
created objects with only the header lines without a body. This
caused Git 2.2 and later to issue an unnecessary warning in some
existing repositories.
With a1e920a0, we do not need to require an empty line (or the body)
in these objects to safely parse and validate them. Drop the
offending "must have an empty line" check from this helper function,
while keeping the other check to make sure that there is no NUL in
the header part of the object, and adjust the name of the helper to
what it does accordingly.
Noticed-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The optional new config option `receive.fsck.skipList` specifies the path
to a file listing the names, i.e. SHA-1s, one per line, of objects that
are to be ignored by `git receive-pack` when `receive.fsckObjects = true`.
This is extremely handy in case of legacy repositories where it would
cause more pain to change incorrect objects than to live with them
(e.g. a duplicate 'author' line in an early commit object).
The intended use case is for server administrators to inspect objects
that are reported by `git push` as being too problematic to enter the
repository, and to add the objects' SHA-1 to a (preferably sorted) file
when the objects are legitimate, i.e. when it is determined that those
problematic objects should be allowed to enter the server.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'invalid tag name' and 'missing tagger entry' warnings can now be
upgraded to errors by specifying `invalidTagName` and
`missingTaggerEntry` in the receive.fsck.<msg-id> config setting.
Incidentally, the missing tagger warning is now really shown as a warning
(as opposed to being reported with the "error:" prefix, as it used to be
the case before this commit).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An fsck issue in a legacy repository might be so common that one would
like not to bother the user with mentioning it at all. With this change,
that is possible by setting the respective message type to "ignore".
This change "abuses" the missingEmail=warn test to verify that "ignore"
is also accepted and works correctly. And while at it, it makes sure
that multiple options work, too (they are passed to unpack-objects or
index-pack as a comma-separated list via the --strict=... command-line
option).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some kinds of errors are intrinsically unrecoverable (e.g. errors while
uncompressing objects). It does not make sense to allow demoting them to
mere warnings.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fsck_tag() identifies a problem with the commit, it should try
to make it possible to continue checking the commit object, in case the
user wants to demote the detected errors to mere warnings.
Just like fsck_commit(), there are certain problems that could hide other
issues with the same tag object. For example, if the 'type' line is not
encountered in the correct position, the 'tag' line – if there is any –
would not be handled at all.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This problem has been detected in the wild, and is the primary reason
to introduce an option to demote certain fsck errors to warnings. Let's
offer to ignore this particular problem specifically.
Technically, we could handle such repositories by setting
receive.fsck.<msg-id> to missingCommitter=warn, but that could hide
missing tree objects in the same commit because we cannot continue
verifying any commit object after encountering a missing committer line,
while we can continue in the case of multiple author lines.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fsck_commit() identifies a problem with the commit, it should try
to make it possible to continue checking the commit object, in case the
user wants to demote the detected errors to mere warnings.
Note that some problems are too problematic to simply ignore. For
example, when the header lines are mixed up, we punt after encountering
an incorrect line. Therefore, demoting certain warnings to errors can
hide other problems. Example: demoting the missingauthor error to
a warning would hide a problematic committer line.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fsck_ident() identifies a problem with the ident, it should still
advance the pointer to the next line so that fsck can continue in the
case of a mere warning.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some repositories written by legacy code have objects with non-fatal
fsck issues. To allow the user to ignore those issues, let's print
out the ID (e.g. when encountering "missingEmail", the user might
want to call `git config --add receive.fsck.missingEmail=warn`).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, missing emails in commit and tag objects can be demoted to
mere warnings with
git config receive.fsck.missingemail=warn
The value is actually a comma-separated list.
In case that the same key is listed in multiple receive.fsck.<msg-id>
lines in the config, the latter configuration wins (this can happen for
example when both $HOME/.gitconfig and .git/config contain message type
settings).
As git receive-pack does not actually perform the checks, it hands off
the setting to index-pack or unpack-objects in the form of an optional
argument to the --strict option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are legacy repositories out there whose older commits and tags
have issues that prevent pushing them when 'receive.fsckObjects' is set.
One real-life example is a commit object that has been hand-crafted to
list two authors.
Often, it is not possible to fix those issues without disrupting the
work with said repositories, yet it is still desirable to perform checks
by setting `receive.fsckObjects = true`. This commit is the first step
to allow demoting specific fsck issues to mere warnings.
The `fsck_set_msg_types()` function added by this commit parses a list
of settings in the form:
missingemail=warn,badname=warn,...
Unfortunately, the FSCK_WARN/FSCK_ERROR flag is only really heeded by
git fsck so far, but other call paths (e.g. git index-pack --strict)
error out *always* no matter what type was specified. Therefore, we need
to take extra care to set all message types to FSCK_ERROR by default in
those cases.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions will be used in the next commits to allow the user to
ask fsck to handle specific problems differently, e.g. demoting certain
errors to warnings. The upcoming `fsck_set_msg_types()` function has to
handle partial strings because we would like to be able to parse, say,
'missingemail=warn,missingtaggerentry=warn' command line parameters
(which will be passed by receive-pack to index-pack and unpack-objects).
To make the parsing robust, we generate strings from the enum keys, and
using these keys, we match up strings without dashes case-insensitively
to the corresponding enum values.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of specifying whether a message by the fsck machinery constitutes
an error or a warning, let's specify an identifier relating to the
concrete problem that was encountered. This is necessary for upcoming
support to be able to demote certain errors to warnings.
In the process, simplify the requirements on the calling code: instead of
having to handle full-blown varargs in every callback, we now send a
string buffer ready to be used by the callback.
We could use a simple enum for the message IDs here, but we want to
guarantee that the enum values are associated with the appropriate
message types (i.e. error or warning?). Besides, we want to introduce a
parser in the next commit that maps the string representation to the
enum value, hence we use the slightly ugly preprocessor construct that
is extensible for use with said parser.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like the diff machinery, we are about to introduce more settings,
therefore it makes sense to carry them around as a (pointer to a) struct
containing all of them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
New tag object format validation added in 2.2 showed garbage
after a tagname it reported in its error message.
* js/fsck-tag-validation:
index-pack: terminate object buffers with NUL
fsck: properly bound "invalid tag name" error message
Now that the index can block pathnames that can be mistaken
to mean ".git" on NTFS and FAT32, it would be helpful for
fsck to notice such problematic paths. This lets servers
which use receive.fsckObjects block them before the damage
spreads.
Note that the fsck check is always on, even for systems
without core.protectNTFS set. This is technically more
restrictive than we need to be, as a set of users on ext4
could happily use these odd filenames without caring about
NTFS.
However, on balance, it's helpful for all servers to block
these (because the paths can be used for mischief, and
servers which bother to fsck would want to stop the spread
whether they are on NTFS themselves or not), and hardly
anybody will be affected (because the blocked names are
variants of .git or git~1, meaning mischief is almost
certainly what the tree author had in mind).
Ideally these would be controlled by a separate
"fsck.protectNTFS" flag. However, it would be much nicer to
be able to enable/disable _any_ fsck flag individually, and
any scheme we choose should match such a system. Given the
likelihood of anybody using such a path in practice, it is
not unreasonable to wait until such a system materializes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the index can block pathnames that case-fold to
".git" on HFS+, it would be helpful for fsck to notice such
problematic paths. This lets servers which use
receive.fsckObjects block them before the damage spreads.
Note that the fsck check is always on, even for systems
without core.protectHFS set. This is technically more
restrictive than we need to be, as a set of users on ext4
could happily use these odd filenames without caring about
HFS+.
However, on balance, it's helpful for all servers to block
these (because the paths can be used for mischief, and
servers which bother to fsck would want to stop the spread
whether they are on HFS+ themselves or not), and hardly
anybody will be affected (because the blocked names are
variants of .git with invisible Unicode code-points mixed
in, meaning mischief is almost certainly what the tree
author had in mind).
Ideally these would be controlled by a separate
"fsck.protectHFS" flag. However, it would be much nicer to
be able to enable/disable _any_ fsck flag individually, and
any scheme we choose should match such a system. Given the
likelihood of anybody using such a path in practice, it is
not unreasonable to wait until such a system materializes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We complain about ".git" in a tree because it cannot be
loaded into the index or checked out. Since we now also
reject ".GIT" case-insensitively, fsck should notice the
same, so that errors do not propagate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we detect an invalid tag-name header in a tag object,
like, "tag foo bar\n", we feed the pointer starting at "foo
bar" to a printf "%s" formatter. This shows the name, as we
want, but then it keeps printing the rest of the tag buffer,
rather than stopping at the end of the line.
Our tests did not notice because they look only for the
matching line, but the bug is that we print much more than
we wanted to. So we also adjust the test to be more exact.
Note that when fscking tags with "index-pack --strict", this
is even worse. index-pack does not add a trailing
NUL-terminator after the object, so we may actually read
past the buffer and print uninitialized memory. Running
t5302 with valgrind does notice the bug for that reason.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We inspect commit objects pretty much in detail in git-fsck, but we just
glanced over the tag objects. Let's be stricter.
Since we do not want to limit 'tag' lines unduly, values that would fail
the refname check only result in warnings, not errors.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So far, we assumed that the buffer is NUL terminated, but this is not
a safe assumption, now that we opened the fsck_object() API to pass a
buffer directly.
So let's make sure that there is at least an empty line in the buffer.
That way, our checks would fail if the empty line was encountered
prematurely, and consequently we can get away with the current string
comparisons even with non-NUL-terminated buffers are passed to
fsck_object().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fsck'ing an incoming pack, we need to fsck objects that cannot be
read via read_sha1_file() because they are not local yet (and might even
be rejected if transfer.fsckobjects is set to 'true').
For commits, there is a hack in place: we basically cache commit
objects' buffers anyway, but the same is not true, say, for tag objects.
By refactoring fsck_object() to take the object buffer and size as
optional arguments -- optional, because we still fall back to the
previous method to look at the cached commit objects if the caller
passes NULL -- we prepare the machinery for the upcoming handling of tag
objects.
The assumption that such buffers are inherently NUL terminated is now
wrong, of course, hence we pass the size of the buffer so that we can
add a sanity check later, to prevent running past the end of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fsck_commit_buffer() checks that the number of items in the parents
list of a commit matches the number of parent lines in its buffer or --
if a graft is used -- the number of parents in that graft. Simplify
the code by using commit_list_count() instead of counting by hand.
Also use different variables for the number of lines and the number of
list items, making it easier to compare them.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/skip-prefix:
http-push: refactor parsing of remote object names
imap-send: use skip_prefix instead of using magic numbers
use skip_prefix to avoid repeated calculations
git: avoid magic number with skip_prefix
fetch-pack: refactor parsing in get_ack
fast-import: refactor parsing of spaces
stat_opt: check extra strlen call
daemon: use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers
fast-import: use skip_prefix for parsing input
use skip_prefix to avoid repeating strings
use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers
transport-helper: avoid reading past end-of-string
fast-import: fix read of uninitialized argv memory
apply: use skip_prefix instead of raw addition
refactor skip_prefix to return a boolean
avoid using skip_prefix as a boolean
daemon: mark some strings as const
parse_diff_color_slot: drop ofs parameter
The skip_prefix() function returns a pointer to the content
past the prefix, or NULL if the prefix was not found. While
this is nice and simple, in practice it makes it hard to use
for two reasons:
1. When you want to conditionally skip or keep the string
as-is, you have to introduce a temporary variable.
For example:
tmp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo");
if (tmp)
buf = tmp;
2. It is verbose to check the outcome in a conditional, as
you need extra parentheses to silence compiler
warnings. For example:
if ((cp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo"))
/* do something with cp */
Both of these make it harder to use for long if-chains, and
we tend to use starts_with() instead. However, the first line
of "do something" is often to then skip forward in buf past
the prefix, either using a magic constant or with an extra
strlen(3) (which is generally computed at compile time, but
means we are repeating ourselves).
This patch refactors skip_prefix() to return a simple boolean,
and to provide the pointer value as an out-parameter. If the
prefix is not found, the out-parameter is untouched. This
lets you write:
if (skip_prefix(arg, "foo ", &arg))
do_foo(arg);
else if (skip_prefix(arg, "bar ", &arg))
do_bar(arg);
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most callsites which use the commit buffer try to use the
cached version attached to the commit, rather than
re-reading from disk. Unfortunately, that interface provides
only a pointer to the NUL-terminated buffer, with no
indication of the original length.
For the most part, this doesn't matter. People do not put
NULs in their commit messages, and the log code is happy to
treat it all as a NUL-terminated string. However, some code
paths do care. For example, when checking signatures, we
want to be very careful that we verify all the bytes to
avoid malicious trickery.
This patch just adds an optional "size" out-pointer to
get_commit_buffer and friends. The existing callers all pass
NULL (there did not seem to be any obvious sites where we
could avoid an immediate strlen() call, though perhaps with
some further refactoring we could).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these sites assumes that commit->buffer is valid.
Since they would segfault if this was not the case, they are
likely to be correct in practice. However, we can
future-proof them by using get_commit_buffer.
And as a side effect, we abstract away the final bare uses
of commit->buffer.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
