Plug a leak we have since ab1e1cccaf (built-in add -i: re-implement
`add-untracked` in C, 2019-11-29).
This leak can be triggered with:
$ echo a | git add -i
As a curiosity, we have a somewhat similar function in builtin/stash.c,
which correctly frees the memory.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have an execution path in apply_data that leaks the local struct
image. Plug it.
This leak can be triggered with:
$ echo foo >file
$ git add file && git commit -m file
$ echo bar >file
$ git diff file >diff
$ sed s/foo/frotz/ <diff >baddiff
$ git apply --cached <baddiff
Fixing this leak allows us to mark as leak-free the following tests:
+ t2016-checkout-patch.sh
+ t4103-apply-binary.sh
+ t4104-apply-boundary.sh
+ t4113-apply-ending.sh
+ t4117-apply-reject.sh
+ t4123-apply-shrink.sh
+ t4252-am-options.sh
+ t4258-am-quoted-cr.sh
Mark them with "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" to notice and fix
promply any new leak that may be introduced and triggered by them in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash --staged" errors out when given binary files, after saving the
stash.
This behaviour dates back to the addition of the feature in 41a28eb6c1
(stash: implement '--staged' option for 'push' and 'save', 2021-10-18).
Adding the "--binary" option of "diff-tree" fixes this. The "diff-tree" call
in stash_patch() also omits "--binary", but that is fine since binary files
cannot be selected interactively.
Helped-By: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-By: Randall S. Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changelog entry for the new `git pack-refs --auto` mode only says
that the new flag is useful, but doesn't really say what it does. Add
some more information.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf_addf() has been reporting a negative return value of vsnprintf(3)
as a bug since f141bd804d (Handle broken vsnprintf implementations in
strbuf, 2007-11-13). Other functions copied that behavior:
7b03c89ebd (add xsnprintf helper function, 2015-09-24)
5ef264dbdb (strbuf.c: add `strbuf_insertf()` and `strbuf_vinsertf()`, 2019-02-25)
8d25663d70 (mem-pool: add mem_pool_strfmt(), 2024-02-25)
However, vsnprintf(3) can legitimately return a negative value if the
formatted output would be longer than INT_MAX. Stop accusing it of
being broken and just report the fact that formatting failed.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous team has not maintained the translation since 2.37. Leader
has agreed to transfer leadership to me.
Signed-off-by: Vũ Tiến Hưng <newcomerminecraft@gmail.com>
Fix a bug that allows the "--rfc" and "-k" options to be specified together
when "git format-patch" is executed, which was introduced in the commit
e0d7db7423 ("format-patch: --rfc honors what --subject-prefix sets").
Add a couple of additional tests to t4014, to cover additional cases of
the mutual exclusivity between different "git format-patch" options.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
No matter how well someone configures their email tooling, understanding
who to send the patches to is something that must always be considered.
So discuss it first instead of at the end.
In the following commit we will clean up the (now redundant) discussion
about sending security patches to the Git Security mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use a dash ("git-contacts", not "git contacts") because the script is
not installed as part of "git" toolset. This also puts the script on
one line, which should make it easier to grep for with a loose search
query, such as
$ git grep git.contacts Documentation
Also add a footnote to describe where the script is located, to help
readers who may not be familiar with such "contrib" scripts (and how
they are not accessible with the usual "git <subcommand>" syntax).
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although we've had this script since 4d06402b1b (contrib: add
git-contacts helper, 2013-07-21), we don't mention it in our
introductory docs. Do so now.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rebasing with "--signoff" the commit created by "rebase --continue"
after resolving conflicts or editing a commit fails to add the
"Signed-off-by:" trailer. This happens because the message from the
original commit is reused instead of the one that would have been used
if the sequencer had not stopped for the user interaction. The correct
message is stored in ctx->message and so with a couple of exceptions
this is written to rebase_path_message() when stopping for user
interaction instead. The exceptions are (i) "fixup" and "squash"
commands where the file is written by error_failed_squash() and (ii)
"edit" commands that are fast-forwarded where the original message is
still reused. The latter is safe because "--signoff" will never
fast-forward.
Note this introduces a change in behavior as the message file now
contains conflict comments. This is safe because commit_staged_changes()
passes an explicit cleanup flag when not editing the message and when
the message is being edited it will be cleaned up automatically. This
means user now sees the same message comments in editor with "rebase
--continue" as they would if they ran "git commit" themselves before
continuing the rebase. It also matches the behavior of "git
cherry-pick", "git merge" etc. which all list the files with merge
conflicts.
The tests are extended to check that all commits made after continuing a
rebase have a "Signed-off-by:" trailer. Sadly there are a couple of
leaks in apply.c which I've not been able to track down that mean this
test file is no-longer leak free when testing "git rebase --apply
--signoff" with conflicts.
Reported-by: David Bimmler <david.bimmler@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an strbuf to "struct replay_ctx" to hold the current commit
message. This does not change the behavior but it will allow us to fix a
bug with "git rebase --signoff" in the next commit. A future patch
series will use the changes here to avoid writing the commit message to
disc unless there are conflicts or the commit is being reworded.
The changes in do_pick_commit() are a mechanical replacement of "msgbuf"
with "ctx->message". In do_merge() the code to write commit message to
disc is factored out of the conditional now that both branches store the
message in the same buffer.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of current fixups is an implementation detail of the sequencer
and so it should not be stored in the public options struct.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"struct replay_opts" has a number of fields that are for internal
use. While they are marked as private having them in a public struct is
a distraction for callers and means that every time the internal details
are changed we have to recompile all the files that include sequencer.h
even though the public API is unchanged. This commit starts the process
of removing the private fields by adding an opaque pointer to a "struct
replay_ctx" to "struct replay_opts" and moving the "reflog_message"
member to the new private struct.
The sequencer currently updates the state files on disc each time it
processes a command in the todo list. This is an artifact of the
scripted implementation and makes the code hard to reason about as it is
not possible to get a complete view of the state in memory. In the
future we will add new members to "struct replay_ctx" to remedy this and
avoid writing state to disc unless the sequencer stops for user
interaction.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sequencer_post_commit_cleanup() initializes an instance of "struct
replay_opts" but does not call replay_opts_release(). Currently this
does not leak memory because the code paths called don't allocate any of
the struct members. That will change in the next commit so add call to
replay_opts_release() to prevent a memory leak in "git commit" that
breaks all of the leak free tests.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have dropped `the_index`, `initialize_the_repository()`
doesn't really do a lot anymore except for setting up the pointer for
`the_repository` and then calling `initialize_repository()`. The former
can be replaced by statically initializing the pointer though, which
basically makes this function moot.
Convert callers to instead call `initialize_repository(the_repository)`
and drop `initialize_thee_repository()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All users of `the_index` have been converted to use either a custom
`struct index_state *` or the index provided by `the_repository`. We can
thus drop the globally-accessible declaration of this variable. In fact,
we can go further than that and drop `the_index` completely now and have
it be allocated dynamically in `initialize_repository()` as all the
other data structures in it are.
This concludes the quest to make Git `the_index` free, which has started
with 4aab5b46f4 (Make read-cache.c "the_index" free., 2007-04-01).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert git-clone(1) to use `the_repository->index` instead of
`the_index`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When Git starts, one of the first things it will do is to call
`initialize_the_repository()`. This function sets up both the global
`the_repository` and `the_index` variables as required. Part of that
setup is also to set `the_repository.index = &the_index` so that the
index can be accessed via the repository.
When calling `repo_init()` on a repository though we set the complete
struct to all-zeroes, which will also cause us to unset the `index`
pointer. And as we don't re-initialize the index in that function, we
will end up with a `NULL` pointer here.
This has been fine until now becaues this function is only used to
create a new repository. git-init(1) does not access the index at all
after initializing the repository, whereas git-checkout(1) only uses
`the_index` directly. We are about to remove `the_index` though, which
will uncover this partially-initialized repository structure.
Refactor the code and create a common `initialize_repository()` function
that gets called from `repo_init()` and `initialize_the_repository()`.
This function sets up both the repository and the index as required.
Like this, we can easily special-case when `repo_init()` gets called
with `the_repository`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert builtins to use `the_repository->index` instead of `the_index`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert test-helper tools to use `the_repository->index` instead of
`the_index`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We observed a series of clone failures arose in a specific set of
repositories after we fully enabled the MIDX bitmap feature within our
Codebase service. These failures were accompanied with error messages
such as:
Cloning into bare repository 'clone.git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 8, done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 8 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (8/8), done.
fatal: did not receive expected object ...
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
Temporarily disabling the MIDX feature eliminated the reported issues.
After some investigation we found that all repositories experiencing
failures contain replace references, which seem to be improperly
acknowledged by the MIDX bitmap generation logic.
A more thorough explanation about the root cause from Taylor Blau says:
Indeed, the pack-bitmap-write machinery does not itself call
disable_replace_refs(). So when it generates a reachability bitmap, it
is doing so with the replace refs in mind. You can see that this is
indeed the cause of the problem by looking at the output of an
instrumented version of Git that indicates what bits are being set
during the bitmap generation phase.
With replace refs (incorrectly) enabled, we get:
[2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 3, 6, 7, 3, 4, 6, 8]
and doing the same after calling disable_replace_refs(), we instead get:
[2, 5, 6, 13, 3, 6, 7, 3, 4, 6, 8]
Single pack bitmaps are unaffected by this issue because we generate
them from within pack-objects, which does call disable_replace_refs().
This patch updates the MIDX logic to disable replace objects within the
multi-pack-index builtin, and a test showing a clone (which would fail
with MIDX bitmap) is added to demonstrate the bug.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 850b6edefa (auto-gc: extract a reusable helper from "git fetch",
2020-05-06), we have introduced a helper function `run_auto_gc()` that
kicks off `git gc --auto`. The intent of this function was to pass down
the "--quiet" flag to git-gc(1) as required without duplicating this at
all callsites. In 7c3e9e8cfb (auto-gc: pass --quiet down from am,
commit, merge and rebase, 2020-05-06) we then converted callsites that
need to pass down this flag to use the new helper function. This has the
notable omission of git-receive-pack(1), which is the only remaining
user of `git gc --auto` that sets up the proccess manually. This is
probably because it unconditionally passes down the `--quiet` flag and
thus didn't benefit much from the new helper function.
In a95ce12430 (maintenance: replace run_auto_gc(), 2020-09-17) we then
replaced `run_auto_gc()` with `run_auto_maintenance()` which invokes
git-maintenance(1) instead of git-gc(1). This command is the modern
replacement for git-gc(1) and is both more thorough and also more
flexible because administrators can configure which tasks exactly to run
during maintenance.
But due to git-receive-pack(1) not using `run_auto_gc()` in the first
place it did not get converted to use git-maintenance(1) like we do
everywhere else now. Address this oversight and start to use the newly
introduced function `prepare_auto_maintenance()`. This will also make it
easier for us to adapt this code together with all the other callsites
that invoke auto-maintenance in the future.
This removes the last internal user of `git gc --auto`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `run_auto_maintenance()` function is responsible for spawning a new
`git maintenance run --auto` process. To do so, it sets up the `sturct
child_process` and then runs it by executing `run_command()` directly.
This is rather inflexible in case callers want to modify the child
process somewhat, e.g. to redirect stderr or stdout.
Introduce a new `prepare_auto_maintenance()` function to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now, there's no specific way to determine whether a credential
helper or git credential itself supports a given set of capabilities.
It would be helpful to have such a way, so let's let credential helpers
and git credential take an argument, "capability", which has it list the
capabilities and a version number on standard output.
Specifically choose a format that is slightly different from regular
credential output and assume that no capabilities are supported if a
non-zero exit status occurs or the data deviates from the format. It is
common for users to write small shell scripts as the argument to
credential.helper, which will almost never be designed to emit
capabilities. We want callers to gracefully handle this case by
assuming that they are not capable of extended support because that is
almost certainly the case, and specifying the error behavior up front
does this and preserves backwards compatibility in a graceful way.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have full support in Git for the authtype capability, let's
add support to the cache credential helper.
When parsing data, we always set the initial capabilities because we're
the helper, and we need both the initial and helper capabilities to be
set in order to have the helper capabilities take effect.
When emitting data, always emit the supported capability and make sure
we emit items only if we have them and they're supported by the caller.
Since we may no longer have a username or password, be sure to emit
those conditionally as well so we don't segfault on a NULL pointer.
Similarly, when comparing credentials, consider both the password and
credential fields when we're matching passwords.
Adjust the partial credential detection code so that we can store
credentials missing a username or password as long as they have an
authtype and credential.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's helpful to have some basic tests for credential helpers supporting
the authtype and credential fields. Let's add some tests for this case
so that we can make sure newly supported helpers work correctly.
Note that we explicitly check that credential helpers can produce
different sets of authtype and credential values based on the username.
While the username is not used in the HTTP protocol with authtype and
credential, it can still be specified in the URL and thus may be part of
the protocol. Additionally, because it is common for users to have
multiple accounts on one service (say, both personal and professional
accounts), it's very helpful to be able to store different credentials
for different accounts in the same helper, and that doesn't become less
useful if one is using, say, Bearer authentication instead of Basic.
Thus, credential helpers should be expected to support this
functionality as basic functionality, so verify here that they do so.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Over HTTP, NTLM and Kerberos require two rounds of authentication on the
client side. It's possible that there are custom authentication schemes
that also implement this same approach. Since these are tricky schemes
to implement and the HTTP library in use may not always handle them
gracefully on all systems, it would be helpful to allow the credential
helper to implement them instead for increased portability and
robustness.
To allow this to happen, add a boolean flag, continue, that indicates
that instead of failing when we get a 401, we should retry another round
of authentication. However, this necessitates some changes in our
current credential code so that we can make this work.
Keep the state[] headers between iterations, but only use them to send
to the helper and only consider the new ones we read from the credential
helper to be valid on subsequent iterations. That avoids us passing
stale data when we finally approve or reject the credential. Similarly,
clear the multistage and wwwauth[] values appropriately so that we
don't pass stale data or think we're trying a multiround response when
we're not. Remove the credential values so that we can actually fill a
second time with new responses.
Limit the number of iterations of reauthentication we do to 3. This
means that if there's a problem, we'll terminate with an error message
instead of retrying indefinitely and not informing the user (and
possibly conducting a DoS on the server).
In our tests, handle creating multiple response output files from our
helper so we can verify that each of the messages sent is correct.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some HTTP authentication schemes, such as NTLM- and Kerberos-based
options, require more than one round trip to authenticate. Currently,
these can only be supported in libcurl, since Git does not have support
for this in the credential helper protocol.
However, in a future commit, we'll add support for this functionality
into the credential helper protocol and Git itself. Because we don't
really want to implement either NTLM or Kerberos, both of which are
complex protocols, we'll want to test this using a fake credential
authentication scheme. In order to do so, update t5563 and its backend
to allow us to accept multiple sets of credentials and respond with
different behavior in each case.
Since we can now provide any number of possible status codes, provide a
non-specific reason phrase so we don't have to generate a more specific
one based on the response. The reason phrase is mandatory according to
the status-line production in RFC 7230, but clients SHOULD ignore it,
and curl does (except to print it).
Each entry in the authorization and challenge fields contains an ID,
which indicates a corresponding credential and response. If the
response is a 200 status, then we continue to execute git-http-backend.
Otherwise, we print the corresponding status and response. If no ID is
matched, we use the default response with a status of 401.
Note that there is an implicit order to the parameters. The ID is
always first and the creds or response value is always last, and
therefore may contain spaces, equals signs, or other arbitrary data.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We recently introduced a way for credential helpers to add arbitrary
state as part of the protocol. Set some limits on line length to avoid
helpers passing extremely large amounts of data. While Git doesn't have
a fixed parsing length, there are other tools which support this
protocol and it's kind to allow them to use a reasonable fixed-size
buffer for parsing. In addition, we would like to be moderate in our
memory usage and imposing reasonable limits is helpful for that purpose.
In the event a credential helper is incapable of storing its serialized
state in 64 KiB, it can feel free to serialize it on disk and store a
reference instead.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we've implemented the state capability, let's send it along by
default when filling credentials so we can make use of it.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, our credential code has mostly deal with usernames and
passwords and we've let libcurl deal with the variant of authentication
to be used. However, now that we have the credential value, the
credential helper can take control of the authentication, so the value
provided might be something that's generated, such as a Digest hash
value.
In such a case, it would be helpful for a credential helper that gets an
erase or store command to be able to keep track of an identifier for the
original secret that went into the computation. Furthermore, some types
of authentication, such as NTLM and Kerberos, actually need two round
trips to authenticate, which will require that the credential helper
keep some state.
In order to allow for these use cases and others, allow storing state in
a field called "state[]". This value is passed back to the credential
helper that created it, which avoids confusion caused by parsing values
from different helpers.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have the credential helper code set up to handle arbitrary
authentications schemes, let's add support for this in the HTTP code,
where we really want to use it. If we're using this new functionality,
don't set a username and password, and instead set a header wherever
we'd normally do so, including for proxy authentication.
Since we can now handle this case, ask the credential helper to enable
the appropriate capabilities.
Finally, if we're using the authtype value, set "Expect: 100-continue".
Any type of authentication that requires multiple rounds (such as NTLM
or Kerberos) requires a 100 Continue (if we're larger than
http.postBuffer) because otherwise we send the pack data before we're
authenticated, the push gets a 401 response, and we can't rewind the
stream. We don't know for certain what other custom schemes might
require this, the HTTP/1.1 standard has required handling this since
1999, the broken HTTP server for which we disabled this (Google's) is
now fixed and has been for some time, and libcurl has a 1-second
fallback in case the HTTP server is still broken. In addition, it is
not unreasonable to require compliance with a 25-year old standard to
use new Git features. For all of these reasons, do so here.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have new fields (authtype and credential), let's document
them for users and credential helper implementers.
Indicate specifically what common values of authtype are and what values
are allowed. Note that, while common, digest and NTLM authentication
are insecure because they require unsalted, uniterated password hashes
to be stored.
Tell users that they can continue to use a username and password even if
the new capability is supported.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have support for a wide variety of types of authentication,
it's important to indicate to other credential helpers whether they
should store credentials, since not every credential helper may
intuitively understand all possible values of the authtype field. Do so
with a boolean field called "ephemeral", to indicate whether the
credential is expected to be temporary.
For example, in HTTP Digest authentication, the Authorization header
value is based off a nonce. It isn't useful to store this value
for later use because reusing the credential long term will not result
in successful authentication due to the nonce necessarily differing.
An additional case is potentially short-lived credentials, which may
last only a few hours. It similarly wouldn't be helper for other
credential helpers to attempt to provide these much later.
We do still pass the value to "git credential store" or "git credential
erase", since it may be helpful to the original helper to know whether
the operation was successful.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We support the new credential and authtype fields, but we lack a way to
indicate to a credential helper that we'd like them to be used. Without
some sort of indication, the credential helper doesn't know if it should
try to provide us a username and password, or a pre-encoded credential.
For example, the helper might prefer a more restricted Bearer token if
pre-encoded credentials are possible, but might have to fall back to
more general username and password if not.
Let's provide a simple way to indicate whether Git (or, for that matter,
the helper) is capable of understanding the authtype and credential
fields. We send this capability when we generate a request, and the
other side may reply to indicate to us that it does, too.
For now, don't enable sending capabilities for the HTTP code. In a
future commit, we'll introduce appropriate handling for that code,
which requires more in-depth work.
The logic for determining whether a capability is supported may seem
complex, but it is not. At each stage, we emit the capability to the
following stage if all preceding stages have declared it. Thus, if the
caller to git credential fill didn't declare it, then we won't send it
to the helper, and if fill's caller did send but the helper doesn't
understand it, then we won't send it on in the response. If we're an
internal user, then we know about all capabilities and will request
them.
For "git credential approve" and "git credential reject", we set the
helper capability before calling the helper, since we assume that the
input we're getting from the external program comes from a previous call
to "git credential fill", and thus we'll invoke send a capability to the
helper if and only if we got one from the standard input, which is the
correct behavior.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At the moment, our credential code wants to find a username and password
for access, which, for HTTP, it will pass to libcurl to encode and
process. However, many users want to use authentication schemes that
libcurl doesn't support, such as Bearer authentication. In these
schemes, the secret is not a username and password pair, but some sort
of token that meets the production for authentication data in the RFC.
In fact, in general, it's useful to allow our credential helper to have
knowledge about what specifically to put in the protocol header. Thus,
add a field, credential, which contains data that's preencoded to be
suitable for the protocol in question. If we have such data, we need
neither a username nor a password, so make that adjustment as well.
It is in theory possible to reuse the password field for this. However,
if we do so, we must know whether the credential helper supports our new
scheme before sending it data, which necessitates some sort of
capability inquiry, because otherwise an uninformed credential helper
would store our preencoded data as a password, which would fail the next
time we attempted to connect to the remote server. This design is
substantially simpler, and we can hint to the credential helper that we
support this approach with a simple new field instead of needing to
query it first.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
