make git barf when an alias changes environment variables

Aliases changing environment variables (GIT_DIR or
GIT_WORK_TREE) can cause problems:
git has to use GIT_DIR to read the aliases from the config.
After running handle_options for the alias the options of the
alias may have changed environment variables.  Depending on
the implementation of setenv the memory location obtained
through getenv earlier may contain the old value or the new
value (or even be used for something else?).  To avoid these
problems git errors out if an alias uses any option which
changes environment variables.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index cd3910afea..33edd6277d 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static void prepend_to_path(const char *dir, int len)
 	free(path);
 }
 
-static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc)
+static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc, int* envchanged)
 {
 	int handled = 0;
 
@@ -64,24 +64,34 @@ static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc)
 				usage(git_usage_string);
 			}
 			setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, (*argv)[1], 1);
+			if (envchanged)
+				*envchanged = 1;
 			(*argv)++;
 			(*argc)--;
 			handled++;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(cmd, "--git-dir=")) {
 			setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, cmd + 10, 1);
+			if (envchanged)
+				*envchanged = 1;
 		} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--work-tree")) {
 			if (*argc < 2) {
 				fprintf(stderr, "No directory given for --work-tree.\n" );
 				usage(git_usage_string);
 			}
 			setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, (*argv)[1], 1);
+			if (envchanged)
+				*envchanged = 1;
 			(*argv)++;
 			(*argc)--;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(cmd, "--work-tree=")) {
 			setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, cmd + 12, 1);
+			if (envchanged)
+				*envchanged = 1;
 		} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--bare")) {
 			static char git_dir[PATH_MAX+1];
 			setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, getcwd(git_dir, sizeof(git_dir)), 1);
+			if (envchanged)
+				*envchanged = 1;
 		} else {
 			fprintf(stderr, "Unknown option: %s\n", cmd);
 			usage(git_usage_string);
@@ -160,7 +170,7 @@ static int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
 
 static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 {
-	int nongit = 0, ret = 0, saved_errno = errno;
+	int nongit = 0, envchanged = 0, ret = 0, saved_errno = errno;
 	const char *subdir;
 	int count, option_count;
 	const char** new_argv;
@@ -181,7 +191,11 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 			    alias_string + 1, alias_command);
 		}
 		count = split_cmdline(alias_string, &new_argv);
-		option_count = handle_options(&new_argv, &count);
+		option_count = handle_options(&new_argv, &count, &envchanged);
+		if (envchanged)
+			die("alias '%s' changes environment variables\n"
+				 "You can use '!git' in the alias to do this.",
+				 alias_command);
 		memmove(new_argv - option_count, new_argv,
 				count * sizeof(char *));
 		new_argv -= option_count;
@@ -375,7 +389,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv, char **envp)
 	/* Look for flags.. */
 	argv++;
 	argc--;
-	handle_options(&argv, &argc);
+	handle_options(&argv, &argc, NULL);
 	if (argc > 0) {
 		if (!prefixcmp(argv[0], "--"))
 			argv[0] += 2;