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2019-12-06Git 2.19.3Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06Sync with 2.18.2Libravatar Johannes Schindelin7-3/+110
* maint-2.18: (33 commits) Git 2.18.2 Git 2.17.3 Git 2.16.6 test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()` Git 2.15.4 Git 2.14.6 mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives" mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting mingw: fix quoting of arguments Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up ...
2019-12-06Git 2.18.2Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06Sync with 2.17.3Libravatar Johannes Schindelin6-3/+102
* maint-2.17: (32 commits) Git 2.17.3 Git 2.16.6 test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()` Git 2.15.4 Git 2.14.6 mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives" mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting mingw: fix quoting of arguments Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names ...
2019-12-06Git 2.17.3Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+12
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06Sync with 2.16.6Libravatar Johannes Schindelin5-3/+90
* maint-2.16: (31 commits) Git 2.16.6 test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()` Git 2.15.4 Git 2.14.6 mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives" mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting mingw: fix quoting of arguments Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses ...
2019-12-06Git 2.16.6Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06Sync with 2.15.4Libravatar Johannes Schindelin4-3/+82
* maint-2.15: (29 commits) Git 2.15.4 Git 2.14.6 mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives" mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting mingw: fix quoting of arguments Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses clone --recurse-submodules: prevent name squatting on Windows is_ntfs_dotgit(): only verify the leading segment ...
2019-12-06Git 2.15.4Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06submodule: reject submodule.update = !command in .gitmodulesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+2
Since ac1fbbda2013 (submodule: do not copy unknown update mode from .gitmodules, 2013-12-02), Git has been careful to avoid copying [submodule "foo"] update = !run an arbitrary scary command from .gitmodules to a repository's local config, copying in the setting 'update = none' instead. The gitmodules(5) manpage documents the intention: The !command form is intentionally ignored here for security reasons Unfortunately, starting with v2.20.0-rc0 (which integrated ee69b2a9 (submodule--helper: introduce new update-module-mode helper, 2018-08-13, first released in v2.20.0-rc0)), there are scenarios where we *don't* ignore it: if the config store contains no submodule.foo.update setting, the submodule-config API falls back to reading .gitmodules and the repository-supplied !command gets run after all. This was part of a general change over time in submodule support to read more directly from .gitmodules, since unlike .git/config it allows a project to change values between branches and over time (while still allowing .git/config to override things). But it was never intended to apply to this kind of dangerous configuration. The behavior change was not advertised in ee69b2a9's commit message and was missed in review. Let's take the opportunity to make the protection more robust, even in Git versions that are technically not affected: instead of quietly converting 'update = !command' to 'update = none', noisily treat it as an error. Allowing the setting but treating it as meaning something else was just confusing; users are better served by seeing the error sooner. Forbidding the construct makes the semantics simpler and means we can check for it in fsck (in a separate patch). As a result, the submodule-config API cannot read this value from .gitmodules under any circumstance, and we can declare with confidence For security reasons, the '!command' form is not accepted here. Reported-by: Joern Schneeweisz <jschneeweisz@gitlab.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-06Sync with 2.14.6Libravatar Johannes Schindelin2-0/+69
* maint-2.14: (28 commits) Git 2.14.6 mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives" mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting mingw: fix quoting of arguments Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses clone --recurse-submodules: prevent name squatting on Windows is_ntfs_dotgit(): only verify the leading segment test-path-utils: offer to run a protectNTFS/protectHFS benchmark ...
2019-12-06Git 2.14.6Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+54
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2019-12-04fast-import: disallow "feature import-marks" by defaultLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
As with export-marks in the previous commit, import-marks can access the filesystem. This is significantly less dangerous than export-marks because it only involves reading from arbitrary paths, rather than writing them. However, it could still be surprising and have security implications (e.g., exfiltrating data from a service that accepts fast-import streams). Let's lump it (and its "if-exists" counterpart) in with export-marks, and enable the in-stream version only if --allow-unsafe-features is set. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2019-12-04fast-import: disallow "feature export-marks" by defaultLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+14
The fast-import stream command "feature export-marks=<path>" lets the stream write marks to an arbitrary path. This may be surprising if you are running fast-import against an untrusted input (which otherwise cannot do anything except update Git objects and refs). Let's disallow the use of this feature by default, and provide a command-line option to re-enable it (you can always just use the command-line --export-marks as well, but the in-stream version provides an easy way for exporters to control the process). This is a backwards-incompatible change, since the default is flipping to the new, safer behavior. However, since the main users of the in-stream versions would be import/export-based remote helpers, and since we trust remote helpers already (which are already running arbitrary code), we'll pass the new option by default when reading a remote helper's stream. This should minimize the impact. Note that the implementation isn't totally simple, as we have to work around the fact that fast-import doesn't parse its command-line options until after it has read any "feature" lines from the stream. This is how it lets command-line options override in-stream. But in our case, it's important to parse the new --allow-unsafe-features first. There are three options for resolving this: 1. Do a separate "early" pass over the options. This is easy for us to do because there are no command-line options that allow the "unstuck" form (so there's no chance of us mistaking an argument for an option), though it does introduce a risk of incorrect parsing later (e.g,. if we convert to parse-options). 2. Move the option parsing phase back to the start of the program, but teach the stream-reading code never to override an existing value. This is tricky, because stream "feature" lines override each other (meaning we'd have to start tracking the source for every option). 3. Accept that we might parse a "feature export-marks" line that is forbidden, as long we don't _act_ on it until after we've parsed the command line options. This would, in fact, work with the current code, but only because the previous patch fixed the export-marks parser to avoid touching the filesystem. So while it works, it does carry risk of somebody getting it wrong in the future in a rather subtle and unsafe way. I've gone with option (1) here as simple, safe, and unlikely to cause regressions. This fixes CVE-2019-1348. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-11-21Git 2.19.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+108
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-21Merge branch 'uk/merge-subtree-doc-update' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that happened a yew years ago. * uk/merge-subtree-doc-update: howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ah/doc-updates' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano12-79/+92
Doc updates. * ah/doc-updates: doc: fix formatting in git-update-ref doc: fix indentation of listing blocks in gitweb.conf.txt doc: fix descripion for 'git tag --format' doc: fix inappropriate monospace formatting doc: fix ASCII art tab spacing doc: clarify boundaries of 'git worktree list --porcelain'
2018-11-21Merge branch 'sg/doc-show-branch-typofix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * sg/doc-show-branch-typofix: doc: fix small typo in git show-branch
2018-11-21Merge branch 'mm/doc-no-dashed-git' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+3
Doc update. * mm/doc-no-dashed-git: doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence
2018-11-21Merge branch 'jc/how-to-document-api' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Doc update. * jc/how-to-document-api: CodingGuidelines: document the API in *.h files
2018-11-21Merge branch 'mw/doc-typofixes' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+2
Typofixes. * mw/doc-typofixes: docs: typo: s/isimilar/similar/ docs: graph: remove unnecessary `graph_update()' call docs: typo: s/go/to/
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
Doc update. * ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help: git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive
2018-11-21Merge branch 'nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Doc update. * nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix: config.txt: correct the note about uploadpack.packObjectsHook
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ma/commit-graph-docs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-19/+20
Doc update. * ma/commit-graph-docs: Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file" git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
2018-11-21Merge branch 'dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Doc update. * dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules: doc: clarify gitcredentials path component matching
2018-11-21Merge branch 'fe/doc-updates' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-5/+39
Doc updates. * fe/doc-updates: git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
2018-11-21Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Doc fix. * bw/protocol-v2: config: document value 2 for protocol.version
2018-11-21Merge branch 'sg/doc-trace-appends' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * sg/doc-trace-appends: Documentation/git.txt: clarify that GIT_TRACE=/path appends
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Build tweak. * ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly: Documentation/Makefile: make manpage-base-url.xsl generation quieter
2018-11-21Merge branch 'md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it didn't make much sense. This has been corrected. * md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix: exclude-promisor-objects: declare when option is allowed Documentation/git-log.txt: do not show --exclude-promisor-objects
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-with-grafts' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+15
The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these incompatible features are in use in the repository. * ds/commit-graph-with-grafts: commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo commit-graph: not compatible with grafts commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects test-repository: properly init repo commit-graph: update design document refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
2018-11-21Merge branch 'en/update-ref-no-deref-stdin' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git update-ref" learned to make both "--no-deref" and "--stdin" work at the same time. * en/update-ref-no-deref-stdin: update-ref: allow --no-deref with --stdin update-ref: fix type of update_flags variable to match its usage
2018-11-21Merge branch 'jk/trailer-fixes' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
"git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message, which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log message alone and never get such an input. * jk/trailer-fixes: append_signoff: use size_t for string offsets sequencer: ignore "---" divider when parsing trailers pretty, ref-filter: format %(trailers) with no_divider option interpret-trailers: allow suppressing "---" divider interpret-trailers: tighten check for "---" patch boundary trailer: pass process_trailer_opts to trailer_info_get() trailer: use size_t for iterating trailer list trailer: use size_t for string offsets
2018-10-25howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-historiesLibravatar Uwe Kleine-König1-1/+1
Without passing --allow-unrelated-histories the command sequence fails as intended since commit e379fdf34fee ("merge: refuse to create too cool a merge by default"). To setup a subtree merging unrelated histories is normal, so add the option to the howto document. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23Documentation/git-log.txt: do not show --exclude-promisor-objectsLibravatar Matthew DeVore1-1/+1
Do not suggest that --exclude-promisor-objects is supported by git-log, since it currently BUG-crashes and it's not necessary to support it. Options that control behavior for promisor objects should be limited to a small number of commands. Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix formatting in git-update-refLibravatar Andreas Heiduk1-4/+4
Remove the parapgraph numbers from lines explaining the reflog format and typeset these lines in monospace. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix indentation of listing blocks in gitweb.conf.txtLibravatar Andreas Heiduk1-10/+15
'gitweb.conf.txt' uses inconsistent indentation in listing blocks and a mix of listing blocks and literal paragraphs. Both didn't look pretty in the rendered HTML page. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix descripion for 'git tag --format'Libravatar Andreas Heiduk1-6/+6
The '--format=<format>' is now listed in the 'OPTIONS' section, not only the '<format>' string itself. The description moved up a few paragraphs because '<format>' is not a standalone paramater but a parameter for the option '--format'. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix inappropriate monospace formattingLibravatar Andreas Heiduk5-32/+40
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix ASCII art tab spacingLibravatar Andreas Heiduk3-25/+25
Followup to 5dd05ebf ("doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing", 2016-10-21) Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: clarify boundaries of 'git worktree list --porcelain'Libravatar Andreas Heiduk1-2/+2
Defined delimiters for 'git worktree list --porcelain' make the format easier to parse in scripts. For example sed -n '/^worktree ID$/,/^$/p' extracts only the information for the worktree 'ID'. The format did not changed since [1], only the guaranty is added. [1] bb9c03b82a (worktree: add 'list' command, 2015-10-08) Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-18doc: fix small typo in git show-branchLibravatar Saulius Gurklys1-1/+1
Fix small typo as in document <glob> is used not <globs>. Signed-off-by: Saulius Gurklys <s4uliu5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-11doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentenceLibravatar Mihir Mehta2-3/+3
I noticed that git-merge-base was unlikely to actually be a git command, and tried it in my shell. Seeing that it doesn't work, I cleaned up two places in the docs where it appears. Signed-off-by: Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-07docs: typo: s/isimilar/similar/Libravatar Michael Witten1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-07docs: graph: remove unnecessary `graph_update()' callLibravatar Michael Witten1-1/+0
The sample code calls `get_revision()' followed by `graph_update()', but the documentation and source code indicate that `get_revision()' already calls `graph_update()' for you. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-07docs: typo: s/go/to/Libravatar Michael Witten1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-29config.txt: correct the note about uploadpack.packObjectsHookLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-4/+4
Document for uploadpack.packObjectsHook is added in [1] and consists of two paragraphs, the second one is quite important about where this variable can stay. When the paragraph about uploadpack.allowFilter is added in [2], it's added in between the two paragraphs. This makes the "this is non-repo level config" note incorrectly apply to allowFilter instead of packObjectsHook. Move allowFilter paragraph down to fix this. [1] 20b20a22f8 (upload-pack: provide a hook for running pack-objects - 2016-05-18) [2] 10ac85c785 (upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone - 2017-12-08) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-29git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archiveLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+3
The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their thinking. Based-on-patch-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-29CodingGuidelines: document the API in *.h filesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
It makes it harder to let the API description and the reality drift apart if the doc is kept close to the implementation or the header of the API. We have been slowly migrating API docs out of the Documentation/technical/api-* to *.h files, and the development community generally considers that how inline docs in strbuf.h is done the best current practice. We recommend documenting in the header over documenting near the implementation to encourage people to write the docs that are readable without peeking at the implemention. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-27Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dashLibravatar Martin Ågren2-10/+10
The file processed by `git commit-graph` is referred to as the "commit-graph file", also with a dash. We have a few references to the "commit graph file", though, without the dash. These occur in git-commit-graph.txt as well as in Doc/technical/commit-graph.txt. Fix them. Do not change the references to the "commit graph" (without "... file") as a data structure. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>