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Junio C Hamano
c37d3269d9 Merge branch 'ow/config-mailmap-pathname'
mailmap.file configuration names a pathname, hence should honor
~/path and ~user/path as its value.

* ow/config-mailmap-pathname:
  config: respect '~' and '~user' in mailmap.file
2014-06-16 12:18:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a634a6d209 Merge branch 'bg/xcalloc-nmemb-then-size'
Like calloc(3), xcalloc() takes nmemb and then size.

* bg/xcalloc-nmemb-then-size:
  transport-helper.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  reflog-walk.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  pack-revindex.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  notes.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  imap-send.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  http-push.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  diff.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  config.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  commit.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  builtin/remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  builtin/ls-remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
2014-06-16 12:17:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b4bba8de11 Merge branch 'jk/strbuf-tolower'
* jk/strbuf-tolower:
  strbuf: add strbuf_tolower function
2014-06-16 10:07:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1e2600dd6a Merge branch 'nd/status-auto-comment-char'
* nd/status-auto-comment-char:
  commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection
  config: be strict on core.commentChar
2014-06-06 11:36:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a3c0efec9b Merge branch 'ew/config-protect-mode'
* ew/config-protect-mode:
  config: preserve config file permissions on edits
2014-06-03 12:06:46 -07:00
Brian Gesiak
f1064f6bc8 config.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
xcalloc() takes two arguments: the number of elements and their size.
config.c includes several calls to xcalloc() that pass the arguments
in reverse order: the size of a struct lock_file*, followed by the
number to allocate.

Rearrange them so they are in the correct order.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-27 14:00:44 -07:00
Øystein Walle
9352fd5708 config: respect '~' and '~user' in mailmap.file
git_config_string() does not handle '~' and '~user' as part of the
value. Using git_config_pathname() fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-27 12:59:32 -07:00
Jeff King
ffb20ce125 strbuf: add strbuf_tolower function
This is a convenience wrapper to call tolower on each
character of the string.

This makes config's lowercase() function obsolete, though
note that because we have a strbuf, we are careful to
operate over the whole strbuf, rather than assuming that a
NUL is the end-of-string.

We could continue to offer a pure-string lowercase, but
there would be no callers (in most pure-string cases, we
actually duplicate and lowercase the duplicate, for which we
have the xstrdup_tolower wrapper).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-23 14:09:58 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
84c9dc2c5a commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection
When core.commentChar is "auto", the comment char starts with '#' as
in default but if it's already in the prepared message, find another
char in a small subset. This should stop surprises because git strips
some lines unexpectedly.

Note that git is not smart enough to recognize '#' as the comment char
in custom templates and convert it if the final comment char is
different. It thinks '#' lines in custom templates as part of the
commit message. So don't use this with custom templates.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-19 13:37:25 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
50b54fd72a config: be strict on core.commentChar
We don't support comment _strings_ (at least not yet). And multi-byte
character encoding could also be misinterpreted.

The test with two commas is updated because it violates this. It's
added with the patch that introduces core.commentChar in eff80a9
(Allow custom "comment char" - 2013-01-16). It's not clear to me _why_
that behavior is wanted.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-19 13:37:07 -07:00
Eric Wong
daa22c6f8d config: preserve config file permissions on edits
Users may already store sensitive data such as imap.pass in
.git/config; making the file world-readable when "git config"
is called to edit means their password would be compromised
on a shared system.

[v2: updated for section renames, as noted by Junio]

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-06 12:23:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
531675ad17 Merge branch 'jk/config-die-bad-number-noreturn'
Squelch a false compiler warning from older gcc.

* jk/config-die-bad-number-noreturn:
  config.c: mark die_bad_number as NORETURN
2014-04-18 11:17:45 -07:00
Jeff King
06bdc23b7e config.c: mark die_bad_number as NORETURN
This can help avoid -Wuninitialized false positives in
git_config_int and git_config_ulong, as the compiler now
knows that we do not return "ret" if we hit the error
codepath.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-16 10:21:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6f0166771a Merge branch 'jk/config-path-include-fix' into maint
include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that can
use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a boolean,
but the code failed to check it.

* jk/config-path-include-fix:
  handle_path_include: don't look at NULL value
  expand_user_path: do not look at NULL path
2014-03-18 14:00:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
08f36302b5 Merge branch 'ks/config-file-stdin'
"git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
course is rejected).

* ks/config-file-stdin:
  config: teach "git config --file -" to read from the standard input
  config: change git_config_with_options() interface
  builtin/config.c: rename check_blob_write() -> check_write()
  config: disallow relative include paths from blobs
2014-03-14 14:24:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2b4a888069 Merge branch 'jc/core-checkstat-2.0'
"core.statinfo" configuration variable, which was a never-advertised
synonym to "core.checkstat", has been removed.
2014-03-07 15:16:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bfef492d76 Merge branch 'jk/config-path-include-fix'
include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that can
use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
boolean, but the code failed to check it.

* jk/config-path-include-fix:
  handle_path_include: don't look at NULL value
  expand_user_path: do not look at NULL path
2014-02-27 14:01:25 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
3caec73b55 config: teach "git config --file -" to read from the standard input
The patch extends git config --file interface to allow read config from
stdin.

Editing stdin or setting value in stdin is an error.

Include by absolute path is allowed in stdin config, but not by relative
path.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:14 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
c8985ce053 config: change git_config_with_options() interface
We're going to have more options for config source.

Let's alter git_config_with_options() interface to accept struct with
all source options.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:13 -08:00
Jeff King
d14d42440d config: disallow relative include paths from blobs
When we see a relative config include like:

  [include]
  path = foo

we make it relative to the containing directory of the file
that contains the snippet. This makes no sense for config
read from a blob, as it is not on the filesystem.  Something
like "HEAD:some/path" could have a relative path within the
tree, but:

  1. It would not be part of include.path, which explicitly
     refers to the filesystem.

  2. It would need different parsing rules anyway to
     determine that it is a tree path.

The current code just uses the "name" field, which is wrong.
Let's split that into "name" and "path" fields, use the
latter for relative includes, and fill in only the former
for blobs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:09 -08:00
Jeff King
67beb60056 handle_path_include: don't look at NULL value
When we see config like:

  [include]
  path

the expand_user_path helper notices that the config value is
empty, but we then dereference NULL while printing the error
message (glibc will helpfully print "(null)" for us here,
but we cannot rely on that).

  $ git -c include.path rev-parse
  error: Could not expand include path '(null)'
  fatal: unable to parse command-line config

Instead of tweaking our message, let's actually use
config_error_nonbool to match other config variables that
expect a value:

  $ git -c include.path rev-parse
  error: Missing value for 'include.path'
  fatal: unable to parse command-line config

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-28 11:59:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ad70448576 Merge branch 'cc/starts-n-ends-with'
Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison
functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with.

* cc/starts-n-ends-with:
  replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
  strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with()
  builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead
  environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
2013-12-17 12:02:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3497717941 Merge branch 'tr/config-multivalue-lift-max'
* tr/config-multivalue-lift-max:
  config: arbitrary number of matches for --unset and --replace-all
2013-12-12 14:18:09 -08:00
Thomas Rast
83786fa412 config: arbitrary number of matches for --unset and --replace-all
git-config used a static match array to hold the matches we want to
unset/replace when using --unset or --replace-all.  Use a
variable-sized array instead.

This in particular fixes the symptoms git-svn had when storing large
numbers of svn-remote.*.added-placeholder entries in the config file.

While the tests are rather more paranoid than just --unset and
--replace-all, the other operations already worked.  Indeed git-svn's
usage only breaks the first time *after* creating so many entries,
when it wants to unset and re-add them all.

Reported-by: Jess Hottenstein <jess.hottenstein@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06 11:48:47 -08:00
Christian Couder
5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

    $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
      grep -v strbuf\\.c |
      xargs perl -pi -e '
        s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
        s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
        s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
        s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
      '

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
0b4dc66169 config.c: mark file-local function static
Commit 7192777 refactors git_parse_ulong, which is public, into a more
generic function.  But since we kept the git_parse_ulong wrapper, only
that part needs to be public; nobody outside the file calls the
lower-level git_parse_unsigned.

Noticed with sparse.  ("'git_parse_unsigned' was not declared. Should
it be static?")

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Explained-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 16:00:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c7c377d83f Merge branch 'jk/config-int-range-check'
"git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger
than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed
integers on all platforms.

* jk/config-int-range-check:
  git-config: always treat --int as 64-bit internally
  config: make numeric parsing errors more clear
  config: set errno in numeric git_parse_* functions
  config: properly range-check integer values
  config: factor out integer parsing from range checks
2013-09-12 14:41:00 -07:00
Jeff King
0016024277 git-config: always treat --int as 64-bit internally
When you run "git config --int", the maximum size of integer
you get depends on how git was compiled, and what it
considers to be an "int".

This is almost useful, because your scripts calling "git
config" will behave similarly to git internally. But relying
on this is dubious; you have to actually know how git treats
each value internally (e.g., int versus unsigned long),
which is not documented and is subject to change. And even
if you know it is "unsigned long", we do not have a
git-config option to match that behavior.

Furthermore, you may simply be asking git to store a value
on your behalf (e.g., configuration for a hook). In that
case, the relevant range check has nothing at all to do with
git, but rather with whatever scripting tools you are using
(and git has no way of knowing what the appropriate range is
there).

Not only is the range check useless, but it is actively
harmful, as there is no way at all for scripts to look
at config variables with large values. For instance, one
cannot reliably get the value of pack.packSizeLimit via
git-config. On an LP64 system, git happily uses a 64-bit
"unsigned long" internally to represent the value, but the
script cannot read any value over 2G.

Ideally, the "--int" option would simply represent an
arbitrarily large integer. For practical purposes, however,
a 64-bit integer is large enough, and is much easier to
implement (and if somebody overflows it, we will still
notice the problem, and not simply return garbage).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:12:29 -07:00
Jeff King
2f666581bb config: make numeric parsing errors more clear
If we try to parse an integer config argument and get a
number outside of the representable range, we die with the
cryptic message: "bad config value for '%s'".

We can improve two things:

  1. Show the value that produced the error (e.g., bad
     config value '3g' for 'foo.bar').

  2. Mention the reason the value was rejected (e.g.,
     "invalid unit" versus "out of range").

A few tests need to be updated with the new output, but that
should not be representative of real-world breakage, as
scripts should not be depending on the exact text of our
stderr output, which is subject to i18n anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:07:07 -07:00
Jeff King
33fdd77e2b config: set errno in numeric git_parse_* functions
When we are parsing an integer or unsigned long, we use
the strto*max functions, which properly set errno to ERANGE
if we get a large value. However, we also do further range
checks after applying our multiplication factor, but do not
set ERANGE. This means that a caller cannot tell if an error
was caused by ERANGE or if the input was simply not a valid
number.

This patch teaches git_parse_signed and git_parse_unsigned to set
ERANGE for range errors, and EINVAL for other errors, so that the
caller can reliably tell these cases apart.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:06:38 -07:00
Jeff King
42d194e958 config: properly range-check integer values
When we look at a config value as an integer using the
git_config_int function, we carefully range-check the value
we get and complain if it is out of our range. But the range
we compare to is that of a "long", which we then cast to an
"int" in the function's return value. This means that on
systems where "int" and "long" have different sizes (e.g.,
LP64 systems), we may pass the range check, but then return
nonsense by truncating the value as we cast it to an int.

We can solve this by converting git_parse_long into
git_parse_int, and range-checking the "int" range. Nobody
actually cared that we used a "long" internally, since the
result was truncated anyway. And the only other caller of
git_parse_long is git_config_maybe_bool, which should be
fine to just use int (though we will now forbid out-of-range
nonsense like setting "merge.ff" to "10g" to mean "true",
which is probably a good thing).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:04:29 -07:00
Jeff King
7192777d22 config: factor out integer parsing from range checks
When we are parsing integers for config, we use an intmax_t
(or uintmax_t) internally, and then check against the size
of our result type at the end. We can parameterize the
maximum representable value, which will let us re-use the
parsing code for a variety of range checks.

Unfortunately, we cannot combine the signed and unsigned
parsing functions easily, as we have to rely on the signed
and unsigned C types internally.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:04:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bda7904746 Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob' into maint
Compilation fix on platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as
macros.

* hv/config-from-blob:
  config: do not use C function names as struct members
2013-09-05 14:40:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
55fefe6bbb Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob'
Portability fix.

* hv/config-from-blob:
  config: do not use C function names as struct members
2013-08-30 10:06:52 -07:00
Jeff King
49d6cfa5c2 config: do not use C function names as struct members
According to C99, section 7.1.4:

  Any function declared in a header may be additionally
  implemented as a function-like macro defined in the
  header.

Therefore calling our struct member function pointer "fgetc"
may run afoul of unwanted macro expansion when we call:

  char c = cf->fgetc(cf);

This turned out to be a problem on uclibc, which defines
fgetc as a macro and causes compilation failure.

The standard suggests fixing this in a few ways:

  1. Using extra parentheses to inhibit the function-like
     macro expansion. E.g., "(cf->fgetc)(cf)". This is
     undesirable as it's ugly, and each call site needs to
     remember to use it (and on systems without the macro,
     forgetting will compile just fine).

  2. Using #undef (because a conforming implementation must
     also be providing fgetc as a function). This is
     undesirable because presumably the implementation was
     using the macro for a performance benefit, and we are
     dropping that optimization.

Instead, we can simply use non-colliding names.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-26 21:39:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c714f9fd8a Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob'
Allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob objects,
which would help working in a bare repository and submodule
updates.

* hv/config-from-blob:
  do not die when error in config parsing of buf occurs
  teach config --blob option to parse config from database
  config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source
  config: drop cf validity check in get_next_char()
  config: factor out config file stack management
2013-07-22 11:24:09 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
b2dc09455a do not die when error in config parsing of buf occurs
If a config parsing error in a file occurs we can die and let the user
fix the issue. This is different for the buf parsing function since it
can be used to parse blobs of .gitmodules files. If a parsing error
occurs here we should proceed since otherwise a database containing such
an error in a single revision could be rendered unusable.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:58 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
1bc888193e teach config --blob option to parse config from database
This can be used to read configuration values directly from git's
database. For example it is useful for reading to be checked out
.gitmodules files directly from the database.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
4d8dd1494e config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source
To simplify adding other sources we extract all functions needed for
parsing into a list of callbacks. We implement those callbacks for the
current file parsing. A new source can implement its own set of callbacks.

Instead of storing the concrete FILE pointer for parsing we store a void
pointer. A new source can use this to store its custom data.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
dbb9a81255 config: drop cf validity check in get_next_char()
The global variable cf is set with an initialized value in all codepaths before
calling this function.

The complete call graph looks like this:

  git_config_from_file
    -> do_config_from
      -> git_parse_file
        -> get_next_char
        -> get_value
            -> get_next_char
            -> parse_value
                -> get_next_char
        -> get_base_var
            -> get_next_char
            -> get_extended_base_var
                -> get_next_char

The variable is initialized in do_config_from.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
ca4b5de28b config: factor out config file stack management
Because a config callback may start parsing a new file, the
global context regarding the current config file is stored
as a stack. Currently we only need to manage that stack from
git_config_from_file. Let's factor it out to allow new
sources of config data.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8f0c843aab Merge branch 'nd/traces'
* nd/traces:
  git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKET
  core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack access
2013-06-20 16:02:28 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b12ca9631f core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack access
5f44324 (core: log offset pack data accesses happened - 2011-07-06)
provides a way to observe pack access patterns via a config
switch. Setting an environment variable looks more obvious than a
config var, especially when you just need to _observe_, and more
inline with other tracing knobs we have.

Document it as it may be useful for remote troubleshooting.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-09 16:07:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
446913e5db Merge branch 'jc/core-checkstat'
The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the
documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead.

For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the
latter will be removed in the longer term.

* jc/core-checkstat:
  deprecate core.statinfo at Git 2.0 boundary
2013-06-05 14:53:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c1b5d738bf core.statinfo: remove as promised in Git 2.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-06 22:32:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6f4dd60d07 deprecate core.statinfo at Git 2.0 boundary
c08e4d5b5c (Enable minimal stat checking, 2013-01-22) advertised
the configuration variable core.checkstat in the documentation and
its log message, but the code expected core.statinfo instead.

For now, add core.checkstat, and warn people who have core.statinfo
in their configuration file that we will remove it in Git 2.0.

Noticed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-06 22:31:42 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
4698c8feb1 config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
The changes v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files,
2012-08-21) and v1.8.1.1~22^2~2 (config: treat user and xdg config
permission problems as errors, 2012-10-13) were intended to prevent
important configuration (think "[transfer] fsckobjects") from being
ignored when the configuration is unintentionally unreadable (for
example with EIO on a flaky filesystem, or with ENOMEM due to a DoS
attack).  Usually ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git are readable by the
current user, and if they aren't then it would be easy to fix those
permissions, so the damage from adding this check should have been
minimal.

Unfortunately the access() check often trips when git is being run as
a server.  A daemon (such as inetd or git-daemon) starts as "root",
creates a listening socket, and then drops privileges, meaning that
when git commands are invoked they cannot access $HOME and die with

 fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied

Any patch to fix this would have one of three problems:

  1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle HOME
     when dropping privileges (the current behavior, or any other
     proposal that they have to opt into).

  2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME when dropping privileges,
     either by making what they want to do impossible, or making them
     set an extra variable or option to accomplish what used to work
     (e.g., a patch to git-daemon to set HOME when --user is passed).

  3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
     not caught.

This patch is of type (3).

Treat user and xdg configuration that are inaccessible due to
permissions (EACCES) as though no user configuration was provided at
all.

An alternative method would be to check if $HOME is readable, but that
would not help in cases where the user who dropped privileges had a
globally readable HOME with only .config or .gitconfig being private.

This does not change the behavior when /etc/gitconfig or .git/config
is unreadable (since those are more serious configuration errors),
nor when ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git is unreadable due to problems
other than permissions.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 07:26:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
099ba556d0 Merge branch 'jk/config-parsing-cleanup'
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.

* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
  reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
  help: use parse_config_key for man config
  submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
  submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  userdiff: drop parse_driver function
  convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
  archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  config: add helper function for parsing key names
2013-02-04 10:24:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
149a4211a4 Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-04 10:23:49 -08:00
Jeff King
1b86bbb0ad config: add helper function for parsing key names
The config callback functions get keys of the general form:

  section.subsection.key

(where the subsection may be contain arbitrary data, or may
be missing). For matching keys without subsections, it is
simple enough to call "strcmp". Matching keys with
subsections is a little more complicated, and each callback
does it in an ad-hoc way, usually involving error-prone
pointer arithmetic.

Let's provide a helper that keeps the pointer arithmetic all
in one place.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-23 08:41:49 -08:00