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[PATCH] archive: let remote clients get reachable commits

From
SSSergey Segeev <gurugray@yandex.ru>
Date
Feb 21, 2013, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID
<1361456643-51851-1-git-send-email-gurugray@yandex.ru>

Some time we need to get valid commit without a ref but with proper tree-ish, now we can't do that.

This patch allow upload-archive's to use reachability checking
rather than checking that is a ref. This means a remote client can
fetch a tip of any valid sha1 or tree-ish.
---
 archive.c           | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 t/t5000-tar-tree.sh |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index 93e00bb..0a48985 100644
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "archive.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "unpack-trees.h"
+#include "refs.h"
 
 static char const * const archive_usage[] = {
 	N_("git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
@@ -241,6 +242,13 @@ static void parse_pathspec_arg(const char **pathspec,
 	}
 }
 
+static int check_reachable(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1,
+		int flag, void *cb_data)
+{
+
+	return in_merge_bases(cb_data, lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1));
+}
+
 static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
 		struct archiver_args *ar_args, const char *prefix,
 		int remote)
@@ -252,22 +260,16 @@ static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
 	const struct commit *commit;
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 
-	/* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual refs */
-	if (remote) {
-		char *ref = NULL;
-		const char *colon = strchr(name, ':');
-		int refnamelen = colon ? colon - name : strlen(name);
-
-		if (!dwim_ref(name, refnamelen, sha1, &ref))
-			die("no such ref: %.*s", refnamelen, name);
-		free(ref);
-	}
-
 	if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
 		die("Not a valid object name");
 
 	commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1);
 	if (commit) {
+
+		/* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual objects */
+		if (remote && !for_each_ref(check_reachable, (void *)commit))
+			die("Not a valid object name");
+
 		commit_sha1 = commit->object.sha1;
 		archive_time = commit->date;
 	} else {
diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
index e7c240f..fc35406 100755
--- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
+++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ test_expect_success 'clients cannot access unreachable commits' '
 	sha1=`git rev-parse HEAD` &&
 	git reset --hard HEAD^ &&
 	git archive $sha1 >remote.tar &&
+	git archive --remote=. $sha1 >remote.tar &&
+	git tag -d unreachable &&
 	test_must_fail git archive --remote=. $sha1 >remote.tar
 '
 
-- 
1.8.1.4
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  2. Jeff KingFeb 21, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2013
  4. Jeff KingFeb 22, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2013
  6. Jeff KingFeb 22, 2013
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