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[PATCH 2/7] grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 14, 2017, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20170214060303.7y7osfhwnxadcr32@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20170214060021.einv7372exbxa23z@sigill.intra.peff.net>
From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
When running a command of the form
  git grep --no-index pattern -- path
in the absence of a Git repository, an error message will be printed:
  fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository

This is because "git grep" tries to interpret "--" as a rev. "git grep" has always tried to first interpret "--" as a rev for at least a few years, but this issue was upgraded from a pessimization to a bug in commit 59332d1 ("Resurrect "git grep --no-index"", 2010-02-06), which calls get_sha1 regardless of whether --no-index was specified. This bug appeared to be benign until commit b1ef400 ("setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to ".git"", 2016-10-20) when Git was taught to die in this situation. (This "git grep" bug appears to be one of the bugs that commit b1ef400 is meant to flush out.)

Therefore, always interpret "--" as signaling the end of options, instead of trying to interpret it as a rev first.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Unchanged from your original.
 builtin/grep.c  |  9 +++++----
 t/t7810-grep.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 5a282c4d0..081e1b57a 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1154,6 +1154,11 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
 		unsigned char sha1[20];
 		struct object_context oc;
+		if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
+			i++;
+			seen_dashdash = 1;
+			break;
+		}
 		/* Is it a rev? */
 		if (!get_sha1_with_context(arg, 0, sha1, &oc)) {
 			struct object *object = parse_object_or_die(sha1, arg);
@@ -1162,10 +1167,6 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			add_object_array_with_path(object, arg, &list, oc.mode, oc.path);
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
-			i++;
-			seen_dashdash = 1;
-		}
 		break;
 	}
 
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index 19f0108f8..29202f0e7 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -982,6 +982,18 @@ test_expect_success 'grep -e -- -- path' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'grep --no-index pattern -- path' '
+	rm -fr non &&
+	mkdir -p non/git &&
+	(
+		GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(pwd)/non" &&
+		export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
+		cd non/git &&
+		echo hello >hello &&
+		git grep --no-index o -- .
+	)
+'
+
 cat >expected <<EOF
 hello.c:int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 hello.c:	printf("Hello world.\n");
-- 
2.12.0.rc1.471.ga79ec8999
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Message 6 of 22 in “grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"”
  1. grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"Jonathan Tan, Feb 14, 2017
  2. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2017
  3. 0/7 grep rev/path parsing fixesJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  4. 1/7 grep: move thread initialization a little lowerJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  5. Brandon WilliamsFeb 14, 2017
  6. 2/7 grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"Jeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  7. 3/7 t7810: make "--no-index --" test more robustJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  8. 4/7 grep: re-order rev-parsing loopJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  9. Brandon WilliamsFeb 14, 2017
  10. 5/7 grep: fix "--" rev/pathspec disambiguationJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  11. Brandon WilliamsFeb 14, 2017
  12. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2017
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2017
  14. 6/7 grep: avoid resolving revision names in --no-index caseJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  15. Jonathan TanFeb 14, 2017
  16. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2017
  17. Jonathan TanFeb 14, 2017
  18. 8/7 grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-indexJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2017
  20. 7/7 grep: do not diagnose misspelt revs with --no-indexJeff King, Feb 14, 2017
  21. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2017
  22. Jonathan TanFeb 14, 2017

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