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2016-06-13fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commitsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
In git-fetch, --depth argument is always relative with the latest remote refs. This makes it a bit difficult to cover this use case, where the user wants to make the shallow history, say 3 levels deeper. It would work if remote refs have not moved yet, but nobody can guarantee that, especially when that use case is performed a couple months after the last clone or "git fetch --depth". Also, modifying shallow boundary using --depth does not work well with clones created by --since or --not. This patch fixes that. A new argument --deepen=<N> will add <N> more (*) parent commits to the current history regardless of where remote refs are. Have/Want negotiation is still respected. So if remote refs move, the server will send two chunks: one between "have" and "want" and another to extend shallow history. In theory, the client could send no "want"s in order to get the second chunk only. But the protocol does not allow that. Either you send no want lines, which means ls-remote; or you have to send at least one want line that carries deep-relative to the server.. The main work was done by Dongcan Jiang. I fixed it up here and there. And of course all the bugs belong to me. (*) We could even support --deepen=<N> where <N> is negative. In that case we can cut some history from the shallow clone. This operation (and --depth=<shorter depth>) does not require interaction with remote side (and more complicated to implement as a result). Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-excludeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-sinceLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-17Merge branch 'jk/drop-rsync-transport'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-331/+1
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
2016-02-01transport: drop support for git-over-rsyncLibravatar Jeff King1-331/+1
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>
2016-01-28pass transport verbosity down to git_connectLibravatar Eric Wong1-5/+6
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>
2015-12-10Merge branch 'bc/object-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+16
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.
2015-12-01Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Jeff King1-2/+9
* 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
2015-11-20Convert struct ref to use object_id.Libravatar brian m. carlson1-16/+16
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>
2015-11-16allow hooks to ignore their standard input streamLibravatar Clemens Buchacher1-2/+9
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>
2015-10-20Merge branch 'jk/war-on-sprintf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
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 ...
2015-10-05transport: use strbufs for status table "quickref" stringsLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+7
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>
2015-09-28Sync with v2.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+42
2015-09-28Sync with 2.4.10Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+42
2015-09-28Sync with 2.3.10Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+42
2015-09-25transport: refactor protocol whitelist codeLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+30
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>
2015-09-23transport: add a protocol-whitelist environment variableLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+20
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>
2015-08-31Merge branch 'db/push-sign-if-asked'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
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
2015-08-25write_file(): drop caller-supplied LF from calls to create a one-liner fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
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>
2015-08-24write_file(): drop "fatal" parameterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
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>
2015-08-19push: support signing pushes iff the server supports itLibravatar Dave Borowitz1-1/+7
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>
2015-08-19transport: remove git_transport_options.push_certLibravatar Dave Borowitz1-3/+0
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>
2015-05-25write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argumentLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-8/+5
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>
2015-05-25write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_idLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-4/+4
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>
2015-05-25each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameterLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+4
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>
2015-05-11Merge branch 'nd/multiple-work-trees'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+3
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 ...
2015-03-28Merge branch 'jk/fetch-pack' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+5
"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
2015-03-25Merge branch 'jk/fetch-pack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+5
"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
2015-03-23Merge branch 'rs/use-isxdigit' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code cleanup. * rs/use-isxdigit: use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digit
2015-03-20Merge branch 'rs/use-isxdigit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code cleanup. * rs/use-isxdigit: use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digit
2015-03-19fetch_refs_via_pack: free extra copy of refsLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+5
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>
2015-03-10use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digitLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
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>
2015-02-11Merge branch 'sb/atomic-push'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"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
2015-01-07push.c: add an --atomic argumentLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-0/+1
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>
2015-01-07send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argumentLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-0/+4
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>
2014-12-29transport: simplify duplicating a substring in transport_get() using xmemdupz()Libravatar René Scharfe1-3/+1
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>
2014-12-01use new wrapper write_file() for simple file writingLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-5/+3
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>
2014-10-24Merge branch 'sb/plug-transport-leak'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Code clean-up. * sb/plug-transport-leak: .mailmap: add Stefan Bellers corporate mail address transport: free leaking head in transport_print_push_status()
2014-10-21transport: free leaking head in transport_print_push_status()Libravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+1
Found by scan.coverity.com (ID: 1248110) Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15refs.c: change resolve_ref_unsafe reading argument to be a flags fieldLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-2/+3
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>
2014-10-08Merge branch 'jc/push-cert'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
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 ...
2014-09-15signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificateLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
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>
2014-09-15push: the beginning of "git push --signed"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
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>
2014-08-20run-command: introduce CHILD_PROCESS_INITLibravatar René Scharfe1-8/+4
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.). Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-28Merge branch 'jk/misc-fixes-maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* jk/misc-fixes-maint: apply: avoid possible bogus pointer fix memory leak parsing core.commentchar transport: fix leaks in refs_from_alternate_cb free ref string returned by dwim_ref receive-pack: don't copy "dir" parameter
2014-07-24transport: fix leaks in refs_from_alternate_cbLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+3
The function starts by creating a copy of the static buffer returned by real_path, but forgets to free it in the error code paths. We can solve this by jumping to the cleanup code that is already there. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-23Merge branch 'ta/string-list-init'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
* ta/string-list-init: replace memset with string-list initializers string-list: add string_list initializer helper function
2014-07-21replace memset with string-list initializersLibravatar Tanay Abhra1-3/+1
Using memset and then manually setting values of the string-list members is not future proof as the internal representation of string-list may change any time. Use `string_list_init()` or STRING_LIST_INIT_* macros instead of memset. Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-18transport: simplify fetch_objs_via_rsync() using argv_arrayLibravatar René Scharfe1-20/+8
Use the existing argv_array member instead of building the arguments list using a string array and a strbuf. This way we don't need magic number constants and allocations are cleaned up for us automatically by run_command(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-20refactor skip_prefix to return a booleanLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+3
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>