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[PATCH] Catch errors when writing an index that contains invalid objects.

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
Nov 13, 2006, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID
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From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

If git-write-index is called without --missing-ok, it reports invalid objects that it finds in the index. But without this patch it dies right away or may run into an infinite loop.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
---
 cache-tree.c     |    2 ++
 t/t0000-basic.sh |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cache-tree.c b/cache-tree.c
index a803262..9b73c86 100644
--- a/cache-tree.c
+++ b/cache-tree.c
@@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ static int update_one(struct cache_tree 
 				    baselen + sublen + 1,
 				    missing_ok,
 				    dryrun);
+		if (subcnt < 0)
+			return subcnt;
 		i += subcnt - 1;
 		sub->used = 1;
 	}
diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh
index 2c9bbb5..6aff0b8 100755
--- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh
@@ -209,6 +209,28 @@ test_expect_success \
     'validate object ID for a known tree.' \
     'test "$ptree" = 3c5e5399f3a333eddecce7a9b9465b63f65f51e2'
 
+cat >badobjects <<EOF
+100644 blob 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000	dir/file1
+100644 blob 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000	dir/file2
+100644 blob 3000000000000000000000000000000000000000	dir/file3
+100644 blob 4000000000000000000000000000000000000000	dir/file4
+100644 blob 5000000000000000000000000000000000000000	dir/file5
+EOF
+
+rm .git/index
+test_expect_success \
+    'put invalid objects into the index.' \
+    'git-update-index --index-info < badobjects'
+
+test_expect_failure \
+    'writing this tree without --missing-ok.' \
+    'git-write-tree'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'writing this tree with --missing-ok.' \
+    'git-write-tree --missing-ok'
+
+
 ################################################################
 rm .git/index
 test_expect_success \
-- 
1.4.1.rc1.g47e5
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