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[JGIT PATCH 3/8] Refuse to create or delete funny ref names over dumb transports

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jul 1, 2008, 03:04 UTC
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If the RemoteRefUpdate requests us to create a remote name of just "master" (say due to a bug in the push command line tool) we would do just that, creating "$project.git/master" on the remote side. This is not a valid ref for Git and confusion ensues when C Git tries to operate on the same repository.

Normally these sorts of bad refs are blocked by git-receive-pack on the remote side, but here we don't have that so we must do the blocking as part of the push connection.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 .../spearce/jgit/transport/WalkPushConnection.java |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport/WalkPushConnection.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport/WalkPushConnection.java
index 5450b84..e11b85a 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport/WalkPushConnection.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport/WalkPushConnection.java
@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ class WalkPushConnection extends BaseConnection implements PushConnection {
 		//
 		final List<RemoteRefUpdate> updates = new ArrayList<RemoteRefUpdate>();
 		for (final RemoteRefUpdate u : refUpdates.values()) {
+			final String n = u.getRemoteName();
+			if (!n.startsWith("refs/") || !Repository.isValidRefName(n)) {
+				u.setStatus(Status.REJECTED_OTHER_REASON);
+				u.setMessage("funny refname");
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			if (AnyObjectId.equals(ObjectId.zeroId(), u.getNewObjectId()))
 				deleteCommand(u);
 			else
-- 
1.5.6.74.g8a5e
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Message 4 of 9 in “Minor push fixups”
  1. 0/8 Minor push fixupsShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  2. 1/8 Correct thin pack completion in IndexPack to handle some bundlesShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  3. 2/8 Delete reflog when deleting ref during dumb transport pushShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  4. 3/8 Refuse to create or delete funny ref names over dumb transportsShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  5. 4/8 Shorten progress message text from PackWriterShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  6. 5/8 Correctly name the stderr redirection thread for local transportShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  7. 6/8 Support 'git upload-pack' and 'git receive-pack' over SSHShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  8. 7/8 Pack jgit into a portable single file command line utilityShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008
  9. 8/8 Don't try to pack 0{40} during push of delete and updateShawn O. Pearce, Jul 1, 2008

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