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"git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
part, but "git push" didn't.
* jk/push-scrub-url:
t5541: fix url scrubbing test when GPG is not set
push: anonymize URL in status output
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Commit 47abd85 (fetch: Strip usernames from url's before
storing them, 2009-04-17) taught fetch to anonymize URLs.
The primary purpose there was to avoid sticking passwords in
merge-commit messages, but as a side effect, we also avoid
printing them to stderr.
The push side does not have the merge-commit problem, but it
probably should avoid printing them to stderr. We can reuse
the same anonymizing function.
Note that for this to come up, the credentials would have to
appear either on the command line or in a git config file,
neither of which is particularly secure. So people _should_
be switching to using credential helpers instead, which
makes this problem go away. But that's no excuse not to
improve the situation for people who for whatever reason end
up using credentials embedded in the URL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mark one printf string and one error string for translation.
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The two alternative ways to spell "ssh://" transport have been
deprecated for a long time. The last mention of them has finally
removed from the documentation.
* cn/deprecate-ssh-git-url:
Disown ssh+git and git+ssh
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Some people argue that these were silly from the beginning (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285590/focus=285601
for example), but we have to support them for compatibility.
That doesn't mean we have to show them in the documentation. These
were already left out of the main list, but a reference in the main
manpage was left, so remove that.
Also add a note to discourage their use if anybody goes looking for them
in the source code.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
convert manual allocations to argv_array
argv-array: add detach function
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
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"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).
* ew/force-ipv4:
connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
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This function uses xcalloc and two memcpy calls to
concatenate two strings. We can do this as an xstrfmt
one-liner, and then it is more clear that we are allocating
the correct amount of memory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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>
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It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
nobody noticed nor complained about it.
* jk/drop-rsync-transport:
transport: drop support for git-over-rsync
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Sometimes it is necessary to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only operation
on networks where name lookups may return a non-routable address and
stall remote operations.
The ssh(1) command has an equivalent switches which we may pass when
we run them. There may be old ssh(1) implementations out there
which do not support these switches; they should report the
appropriate error in that case.
rsync support is untouched for now since it is deprecated and
scheduled to be removed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The git-over-rsync protocol is inefficient and broken, and
has been for a long time. It transfers way more objects than
it needs (grabbing all of the remote's "objects/",
regardless of which objects we need). It does its own ad-hoc
parsing of loose and packed refs from the remote, but
doesn't properly override packed refs with loose ones,
leading to garbage results (e.g., expecting the other side
to have an object pointed to by a stale packed-refs entry,
or complaining that the other side has two copies of the
refs[1]).
This latter breakage means that nobody could have
successfully pulled from a moderately active repository
since cd547b4 (fetch/push: readd rsync support, 2007-10-01).
We never made an official deprecation notice in the release
notes for git's rsync protocol, but the tutorial has marked
it as such since 914328a (Update tutorial., 2005-08-30).
And on the mailing list as far back as Oct 2005, we can find
Junio mentioning it as having "been deprecated for quite
some time."[2,3,4]. So it was old news then; cogito had
deprecated the transport in July of 2005[5] (though it did
come back briefly when Linus broke git-http-pull!).
Of course some people professed their love of rsync through
2006, but Linus clarified in his usual gentle manner[6]:
> Thanks! This is why I still use rsync, even though
> everybody and their mother tells me "Linus says rsync is
> deprecated."
No. You're using rsync because you're actively doing
something _wrong_.
The deprecation sentiment was reinforced in 2008, with a
mention that cloning via rsync is broken (with no fix)[7].
Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4)
lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal
warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken
since 2007, it's probably safe to simply remove it without
further deprecation warnings.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285101
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10093
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17734
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18911
[5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5617
[6] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19354
[7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103635
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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While working in connect.c to perform non-blocking connections,
I noticed calling "git fetch -v" was not causing the progress
messages inside git_tcp_connect_sock to be emitted as I
expected.
Looking at history, it seems connect_setup has never been called
with the verbose parameter. Since transport already has a
"verbose" field, use that field instead of another parameter
in connect_setup.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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.
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* maint:
http: treat config options sslCAPath and sslCAInfo as paths
Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
filter-branch: deal with object name vs. pathname ambiguity in tree-filter
check-ignore: correct documentation about output
git-p4: clean up after p4 submit failure
git-p4: work with a detached head
git-p4: add option to system() to return subshell status
git-p4: add failing test for submit from detached head
remote-http(s): support SOCKS proxies
t5813: avoid creating urls that break on cygwin
Escape Git's exec path in contrib/rerere-train.sh script
allow hooks to ignore their standard input stream
rebase-i-exec: Allow space in SHELL_PATH
Documentation: make environment variable formatting more consistent
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Use struct object_id in three fields in struct ref and convert all the
necessary places that use it.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Since ec7dbd145 (receive-pack: allow hooks to ignore its
standard input stream) the pre-receive and post-receive
hooks ignore SIGPIPE. Do the same for the remaining hooks
pre-push and post-rewrite, which read from standard input.
The same arguments for ignoring SIGPIPE apply.
Include test by Jeff King which checks that SIGPIPE does not
cause pre-push hook failure. With the use of git update-ref
--stdin it is fast enough to be enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <clemens.buchacher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Many allocations that is manually counted (correctly) that are
followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error
prone constructs such as xstrfmt.
Macintosh-specific breakage was noticed and corrected in this
reroll.
* jk/war-on-sprintf: (70 commits)
name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers
use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash
fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob
fsck: drop inode-sorting code
convert strncpy to memcpy
notes: document length of fanout path with a constant
color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors
prefer memcpy to strcpy
help: clean up kfmclient munging
receive-pack: simplify keep_arg computation
avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arrays
use alloc_ref rather than hand-allocating "struct ref"
color: add overflow checks for parsing colors
drop strcpy in favor of raw sha1_to_hex
use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy
daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning
stat_tracking_info: convert to argv_array
http-push: use an argv_array for setup_revisions
fetch-pack: use argv_array for index-pack / unpack-objects
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We generate range strings like "1234abcd...5678efab" for use
in the the fetch and push status tables. We use fixed-size
buffers along with strcat to do so. These aren't buggy, as
our manual size computation is correct, but there's nothing
checking that this is so. Let's switch them to strbufs
instead, which are obviously correct, and make it easier to
audit the code base for problematic calls to strcat().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The current callers only want to die when their transport is
prohibited. But future callers want to query the mechanism
without dying.
Let's break out a few query functions, and also save the
results in a static list so we don't have to re-parse for
each query.
Based-on-a-patch-by: Blake Burkhart <bburky@bburky.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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If we are cloning an untrusted remote repository into a
sandbox, we may also want to fetch remote submodules in
order to get the complete view as intended by the other
side. However, that opens us up to attacks where a malicious
user gets us to clone something they would not otherwise
have access to (this is not necessarily a problem by itself,
but we may then act on the cloned contents in a way that
exposes them to the attacker).
Ideally such a setup would sandbox git entirely away from
high-value items, but this is not always practical or easy
to set up (e.g., OS network controls may block multiple
protocols, and we would want to enable some but not others).
We can help this case by providing a way to restrict
particular protocols. We use a whitelist in the environment.
This is more annoying to set up than a blacklist, but
defaults to safety if the set of protocols git supports
grows). If no whitelist is specified, we continue to default
to allowing all protocols (this is an "unsafe" default, but
since the minority of users will want this sandboxing
effect, it is the only sensible one).
A note on the tests: ideally these would all be in a single
test file, but the git-daemon and httpd test infrastructure
is an all-or-nothing proposition rather than a test-by-test
prerequisite. By putting them all together, we would be
unable to test the file-local code on machines without
apache.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The client side codepaths in "git push" have been cleaned up
and the user can request to perform an optional "signed push",
i.e. sign only when the other end accepts signed push.
* db/push-sign-if-asked:
push: add a config option push.gpgSign for default signed pushes
push: support signing pushes iff the server supports it
builtin/send-pack.c: use parse_options API
config.c: rename git_config_maybe_bool_text and export it as git_parse_maybe_bool
transport: remove git_transport_options.push_cert
gitremote-helpers.txt: document pushcert option
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt: document --signed
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt: wrap long synopsis line
Documentation/git-push.txt: document when --signed may fail
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All of the callsites covered by this change call write_file() or
write_file_gently() to create a one-liner file. Drop the caller
supplied LF and let these callees to append it as necessary.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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All callers except three passed 1 for the "fatal" parameter to ask
this function to die upon error, but to a casual reader of the code,
it was not all obvious what that 1 meant. Instead, split the
function into two based on a common write_file_v() that takes the
flag, introduce write_file_gently() as a new way to attempt creating
a file without dying on error, and make three callers to call it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Add a new flag --sign=true (or --sign=false), which means the same
thing as the original --signed (or --no-signed). Give it a third
value --sign=if-asked to tell push and send-pack to send a push
certificate if and only if the server advertised a push cert nonce.
If not, warn the user that their push may not be as secure as they
thought.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This field was set in transport_set_option, but never read in the push
code. The push code basically ignores the smart_options field
entirely, and derives its options from the flags arguments to the
push* callbacks. Note that in git_transport_push there are already
several args set from flags that have no corresponding field in
git_transport_options; after this change, push_cert is just like
those.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".
To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().
This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not
rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
* nd/multiple-work-trees: (41 commits)
prune --worktrees: fix expire vs worktree existence condition
t1501: fix test with split index
t2026: fix broken &&-chain
t2026 needs procondition SANITY
git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules
checkout: add --ignore-other-wortrees
checkout: pass whole struct to parse_branchname_arg instead of individual flags
git-common-dir: make "modules/" per-working-directory directory
checkout: do not fail if target is an empty directory
t2025: add a test to make sure grafts is working from a linked checkout
checkout: don't require a work tree when checking out into a new one
git_path(): keep "info/sparse-checkout" per work-tree
count-objects: report unused files in $GIT_DIR/worktrees/...
gc: support prune --worktrees
gc: factor out gc.pruneexpire parsing code
gc: style change -- no SP before closing parenthesis
checkout: clean up half-prepared directories in --to mode
checkout: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere
prune: strategies for linked checkouts
checkout: support checking out into a new working directory
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"git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want
extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs.
* jk/fetch-pack:
fetch-pack: remove dead assignment to ref->new_sha1
fetch_refs_via_pack: free extra copy of refs
filter_ref: make a copy of extra "sought" entries
filter_ref: avoid overwriting ref->old_sha1 with garbage
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"git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want
extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs.
* jk/fetch-pack:
fetch-pack: remove dead assignment to ref->new_sha1
fetch_refs_via_pack: free extra copy of refs
filter_ref: make a copy of extra "sought" entries
filter_ref: avoid overwriting ref->old_sha1 with garbage
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Code cleanup.
* rs/use-isxdigit:
use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digit
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Code cleanup.
* rs/use-isxdigit:
use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digit
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When fetch_refs_via_pack calls fetch_pack(), we pass a
list of refs to fetch, and the function returns either a
copy of that list, with the fetched items filled in, or
NULL. We check the return value to see whether the fetch was
successful, but do not otherwise look at the copy, and
simply leak it at the end of the function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Use the standard function isxdigit() to make the intent clearer and
avoid using magic constants.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
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Add a command line argument to the git push command to request atomic
pushes.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This adds support to send-pack to negotiate and use atomic pushes
iff the server supports it. Atomic pushes are activated by a new command
line flag --atomic.
In order to do this we also need to change the semantics for send_pack()
slightly. The existing send_pack() function actually doesn't send all the
refs back to the server when multiple refs are involved, for example
when using --all. Several of the failure modes for pushes can already be
detected locally in the send_pack client based on the information from the
initial server side list of all the refs as generated by receive-pack.
Any such refs that we thus know would fail to push are thus pruned from
the list of refs we send to the server to update.
For atomic pushes, we have to deal thus with both failures that are detected
locally as well as failures that are reported back from the server. In order
to do so we treat all local failures as push failures too.
We introduce a new status code REF_STATUS_ATOMIC_PUSH_FAILED so we can
flag all refs that we would normally have tried to push to the server
but we did not due to local failures. This is to improve the error message
back to the end user to flag that "these refs failed to update since the
atomic push operation failed."
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This fixes common problems in these code about error handling,
forgetting to close the file handle after fprintf() fails, or not
printing out the error string..
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Code clean-up.
* sb/plug-transport-leak:
.mailmap: add Stefan Bellers corporate mail address
transport: free leaking head in transport_print_push_status()
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Found by scan.coverity.com (ID: 1248110)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref
resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be
a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when
we want this behaviour.
While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output
arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can
catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited.
Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same
treatment for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Allow "git push" request to be signed, so that it can be verified and
audited, using the GPG signature of the person who pushed, that the
tips of branches at a public repository really point the commits
the pusher wanted to, without having to "trust" the server.
* jc/push-cert: (24 commits)
receive-pack::hmac_sha1(): copy the entire SHA-1 hash out
signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
signed push: teach smart-HTTP to pass "git push --signed" around
signed push: fortify against replay attacks
signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
send-pack: send feature request on push-cert packet
receive-pack: GPG-validate push certificates
push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
gpg-interface: move parse_signature() to where it should be
gpg-interface: move parse_gpg_output() to where it should be
send-pack: clarify that cmds_sent is a boolean
send-pack: refactor inspecting and resetting status and sending commands
send-pack: rename "new_refs" to "need_pack_data"
receive-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: always send capabilities
send-pack: refactor decision to send update per ref
send-pack: move REF_STATUS_REJECT_NODELETE logic a bit higher
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Record the URL of the intended recipient for a push (after
anonymizing it if it has authentication material) on a new "pushee
URL" header. Because the networking configuration (SSH-tunnels,
proxies, etc.) on the pushing user's side varies, the receiving
repository may not know the single canonical URL all the pushing
users would refer it as (besides, many sites allow pushing over
ssh://host/path and https://host/path protocols to the same
repository but with different local part of the path). So this
value may not be reliably used for replay-attack prevention
purposes, but this will still serve as a human readable hint to
identify the repository the certificate refers to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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While signed tags and commits assert that the objects thusly signed
came from you, who signed these objects, there is not a good way to
assert that you wanted to have a particular object at the tip of a
particular branch. My signing v2.0.1 tag only means I want to call
the version v2.0.1, and it does not mean I want to push it out to my
'master' branch---it is likely that I only want it in 'maint', so
the signature on the object alone is insufficient.
The only assurance to you that 'maint' points at what I wanted to
place there comes from your trust on the hosting site and my
authentication with it, which cannot easily audited later.
Introduce a mechanism that allows you to sign a "push certificate"
(for the lack of better name) every time you push, asserting that
what object you are pushing to update which ref that used to point
at what other object. Think of it as a cryptographic protection for
ref updates, similar to signed tags/commits but working on an
orthogonal axis.
The basic flow based on this mechanism goes like this:
1. You push out your work with "git push --signed".
2. The sending side learns where the remote refs are as usual,
together with what protocol extension the receiving end
supports. If the receiving end does not advertise the protocol
extension "push-cert", an attempt to "git push --signed" fails.
Otherwise, a text file, that looks like the following, is
prepared in core:
certificate version 0.1
pusher Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1315427886 -0700
7339ca65... 21580ecb... refs/heads/master
3793ac56... 12850bec... refs/heads/next
The file begins with a few header lines, which may grow as we
gain more experience. The 'pusher' header records the name of
the signer (the value of user.signingkey configuration variable,
falling back to GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME|EMAIL}) and the time of the
certificate generation. After the header, a blank line follows,
followed by a copy of the protocol message lines.
Each line shows the old and the new object name at the tip of
the ref this push tries to update, in the way identical to how
the underlying "git push" protocol exchange tells the ref
updates to the receiving end (by recording the "old" object
name, the push certificate also protects against replaying). It
is expected that new command packet types other than the
old-new-refname kind will be included in push certificate in the
same way as would appear in the plain vanilla command packets in
unsigned pushes.
The user then is asked to sign this push certificate using GPG,
formatted in a way similar to how signed tag objects are signed,
and the result is sent to the other side (i.e. receive-pack).
In the protocol exchange, this step comes immediately before the
sender tells what the result of the push should be, which in
turn comes before it sends the pack data.
3. When the receiving end sees a push certificate, the certificate
is written out as a blob. The pre-receive hook can learn about
the certificate by checking GIT_PUSH_CERT environment variable,
which, if present, tells the object name of this blob, and make
the decision to allow or reject this push. Additionally, the
post-receive hook can also look at the certificate, which may be
a good place to log all the received certificates for later
audits.
Because a push certificate carry the same information as the usual
command packets in the protocol exchange, we can omit the latter
when a push certificate is in use and reduce the protocol overhead.
This however is not included in this patch to make it easier to
review (in other words, the series at this step should never be
released without the remainder of the series, as it implements an
interim protocol that will be incompatible with the final one).
As such, the documentation update for the protocol is left out of
this step.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
Jeff King
Vasco Almeida
Carlos Martín Nieto
Eric Wong
brian m. carlson
Clemens Buchacher
Dave Borowitz
Michael Haggerty
René Scharfe
Ronnie Sahlberg
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Stefan Beller