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[PATCH 2/2] decode file:// and ssh:// URLs

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 23, 2010, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20100523091944.GB16520@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20100523091612.GB26123@coredump.intra.peff.net>

We generally treat these as equivalent to "/path/to/repo" and "host:path_to_repo" respectively. However, they are URLs and as such may be percent-encoded. The current code simply uses them as-is without any decoding.

With this patch, we will now percent-decode any file:// or ssh:// url (or ssh+git, git+ssh, etc) at the transport layer. We continue to treat plain paths and "host:path" syntax literally.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
I think this also impacts git:// URLs. Which I is probably a good thing,
but I haven't looked extensively for unexpected fallouts.
 connect.c        |    8 +++++++-
 t/t5601-clone.sh |   12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 9ae991a..0119bd3 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "refs.h"
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "remote.h"
+#include "url.h"
 
 static char *server_capabilities;
 
@@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ static struct child_process no_fork;
 struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
 				  const char *prog, int flags)
 {
-	char *url = xstrdup(url_orig);
+	char *url;
 	char *host, *path;
 	char *end;
 	int c;
@@ -466,6 +467,11 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
 	 */
 	signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
 
+	if (is_url(url_orig))
+		url = url_decode(url_orig);
+	else
+		url = xstrdup(url_orig);
+
 	host = strstr(url, "://");
 	if (host) {
 		*host = '\0';
diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 678cee5..8abb71a 100755
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -176,4 +176,16 @@ test_expect_success 'clone respects global branch.autosetuprebase' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'respect url-encoding of file://' '
+	git init x+y &&
+	test_must_fail git clone "file://$PWD/x+y" xy-url &&
+	git clone "file://$PWD/x%2By" xy-url
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'do not respect url-encoding of non-url path' '
+	git init x+y &&
+	test_must_fail git clone x%2By xy-regular &&
+	git clone x+y xy-regular
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.7.1.356.gc7d3.dirty
Previous: Jeff KingNext: Ilari Liusvaara
Message 4 of 6 in “Bug with URL-decoding”
  1. Dave AbrahamsMay 6, 2010
  2. Jeff KingMay 23, 2010
  3. 1/2 make url-related functions reusableJeff King, May 23, 2010
  4. 2/2 decode file:// and ssh:// URLsJeff King, May 23, 2010
  5. Ilari LiusvaaraMay 27, 2010
  6. Jeff KingMay 30, 2010

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