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[PATCH 2/2] pathspec: allow escaped query values

From
BWBrandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2017, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20170309210756.105566-3-bmwill@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20170309210756.105566-1-bmwill@google.com>
In our own .gitattributes file we have attributes such as:
    *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space

When querying for attributes we want to be able to ask for the exact value, i.e.

    git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)

should work, but the commas are used in the attr magic to introduce the next attr, such that this query currently fails with

fatal: Invalid pathspec magic 'trail' in ':(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)'
This change allows escaping characters by a backslash, such that the query
    git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)

will match all path that have the value "indent,trail,space" for the whitespace attribute. To accomplish this, we need to modify two places. First `parse_long_magic` needs to not stop early upon seeing a comma or closing paren that is escaped. As a second step we need to remove any escaping from the attr value.

Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
---
 pathspec.c                     | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh |  9 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 583ed5208..f89f84a83 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -89,6 +89,51 @@ static void prefix_magic(struct strbuf *sb, int prefixlen, unsigned magic)
 	strbuf_addf(sb, ",prefix:%d)", prefixlen);
 }
 
+static size_t strcspn_escaped(const char *s, const char *stop)
+{
+	const char *i;
+
+	for (i = s; *i; i++) {
+		/* skip the escaped character */
+		if (i[0] == '\\' && i[1]) {
+			i++;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (strchr(stop, *i))
+			break;
+	}
+	return i - s;
+}
+
+static inline int invalid_value_char(const char ch)
+{
+	if (isalnum(ch) || strchr(",-_", ch))
+		return 0;
+	return -1;
+}
+
+static char *attr_value_unescape(const char *value)
+{
+	const char *src;
+	char *dst, *ret;
+
+	ret = xmallocz(strlen(value));
+	for (src = value, dst = ret; *src; src++, dst++) {
+		if (*src == '\\') {
+			if (!src[1])
+				die(_("Escape character '\\' not allowed as "
+				      "last character in attr value"));
+			src++;
+		}
+		if (invalid_value_char(*src))
+			die("cannot use '%c' for value matching", *src);
+		*dst = *src;
+	}
+	*dst = '\0';
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static void parse_pathspec_attr_match(struct pathspec_item *item, const char *value)
 {
 	struct string_list_item *si;
@@ -133,10 +178,9 @@ static void parse_pathspec_attr_match(struct pathspec_item *item, const char *va
 			if (attr[attr_len] != '=')
 				am->match_mode = MATCH_SET;
 			else {
+				const char *v = &attr[attr_len + 1];
 				am->match_mode = MATCH_VALUE;
-				am->value = xstrdup(&attr[attr_len + 1]);
-				if (strchr(am->value, '\\'))
-					die(_("attr spec values must not contain backslashes"));
+				am->value = attr_value_unescape(v);
 			}
 			break;
 		}
@@ -239,7 +283,7 @@ static const char *parse_long_magic(unsigned *magic, int *prefix_len,
 	const char *nextat;
 
 	for (pos = elem + 2; *pos && *pos != ')'; pos = nextat) {
-		size_t len = strcspn(pos, ",)");
+		size_t len = strcspn_escaped(pos, ",)");
 		int i;
 
 		if (pos[len] == ',')
diff --git a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
index b5e5a0607..585d17bad 100755
--- a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
+++ b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
@@ -178,4 +178,13 @@ test_expect_success 'abort on asking for wrong magic' '
 	test_must_fail git ls-files . ":(attr:!label=foo)"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'check attribute list' '
+	cat <<-EOF >>.gitattributes &&
+	* whitespace=indent,trail,space
+	EOF
+	git ls-files ":(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)" >actual &&
+	git ls-files >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.12.0.246.ga2ecc84866-goog
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Message 7 of 23 in “bringing attributes to pathspecs”
  1. 0/2 bringing attributes to pathspecsBrandon Williams, Mar 9, 2017
  2. 1/2 pathspec: allow querying for attributesBrandon Williams, Mar 9, 2017
  3. Jonathan TanMar 9, 2017
  4. Brandon WilliamsMar 10, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2017
  6. Stefan BellerMar 13, 2017
  7. 2/2 pathspec: allow escaped query valuesBrandon Williams, Mar 9, 2017
  8. Jonathan TanMar 9, 2017
  9. Brandon WilliamsMar 10, 2017
  10. Stefan BellerMar 9, 2017
  11. 0/2 bringing attributes to pathspecsBrandon Williams, Mar 10, 2017
  12. 1/2 pathspec: allow querying for attributesBrandon Williams, Mar 10, 2017
  13. Jonathan TanMar 10, 2017
  14. Brandon WilliamsMar 11, 2017
  15. 2/2 pathspec: allow escaped query valuesBrandon Williams, Mar 10, 2017
  16. 0/2 bringing attributes to pathspecsBrandon Williams, Mar 13, 2017
  17. 1/2 pathspec: allow querying for attributesBrandon Williams, Mar 13, 2017
  18. 2/2 pathspec: allow escaped query valuesBrandon Williams, Mar 13, 2017
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2017
  20. Brandon WilliamsMar 13, 2017
  21. Duy NguyenMar 21, 2017
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2017
  23. Brandon WilliamsMar 21, 2017

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