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authorLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2018-11-20 17:28:53 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-11-21 14:05:13 +0900
commite66ceca94b6137dd73cab8b19ba8c890a0055544 (patch)
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parentclone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems (diff)
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clone: fix colliding file detection on APFS
Commit b878579ae7 (clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems - 2018-08-17) adds a warning to user when cloning a repo with case-sensitive file names on a case-insensitive file system. The "find duplicate file" check was doing by comparing inode number (and only fall back to fspathcmp() when inode is known to be unreliable because fspathcmp() can't cover all case folding cases). The inode check is very simple, and wrong. It compares between a 32-bit number (sd_ino) and potentially a 64-bit number (st_ino). When an inode is larger than 2^32 (which seems to be the case for APFS), it will be truncated and stored in sd_ino, but comparing with itself will fail. As a result, instead of showing a pair of files that have the same name, we show just one file (marked before the beginning of the loop). We fail to find the original one. The fix could be just a simple type cast (*) dup->ce_stat_data.sd_ino == (unsigned int)st->st_ino but this is no longer a reliable test, there are 4G possible inodes that can match sd_ino because we only match the lower 32 bits instead of full 64 bits. There are two options to go. Either we ignore inode and go with fspathcmp() on Apple platform. This means we can't do accurate inode check on HFS anymore, or even on APFS when inode numbers are still below 2^32. Or we just to to reduce the odds of matching a wrong file by checking more attributes, counting mostly on st_size because st_xtime is likely the same. This patch goes with this direction, hoping that false positive chances are too small to be seen in practice. While at there, enable the test on Cygwin (verified working by Ramsay Jones) (*) this is also already done inside match_stat_data() Reported-by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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