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[PATCH] builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Sep 11, 2020, 23:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20200911233815.2808426-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To
<20200911151717.43475-1-matheus.bernardino@usp.br>

If a user is cloning a SHA-1 repository with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to "sha256", then we can end up with a repository where the repository format version is 0 but the extensions.objectformat key is set to "sha256". This is both wrong (the user has a SHA-1 repository) and nonfunctional (because the extension cannot be used in a v0 repository).

This happens because in a clone, we initially set up the repository, and then change its algorithm based on what the remote side tells us it's using. We've initially set up the repository as SHA-256 in this case, and then later on reset the repository version without clearing the extension.

We could just always set the extension in this case, but that would mean that our SHA-1 repositories weren't compatible with older Git versions, even though there's no reason why they shouldn't be. And we also don't want to initialize the repository as SHA-1 initially, since that means if we're cloning an empty repository, we'll have failed to honor the GIT_DEFAULT_HASH variable and will end up with a SHA-1 repository, not a SHA-256 repository.

Neither of those are appealing, so let's tell the repository initialization code if we're doing a reinit like this, and if so, to clear the extension if we're using SHA-1. This makes sure we produce a valid and functional repository and doesn't break any of our other use cases.

Reported-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 builtin/clone.c   |  2 +-
 builtin/init-db.c |  6 ++++--
 cache.h           |  2 +-
 t/t5601-clone.sh  | 10 ++++++++++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index b087ee40c2..925a2e3dd6 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		 * Now that we know what algorithm the remote side is using,
 		 * let's set ours to the same thing.
 		 */
-		initialize_repository_version(hash_algo);
+		initialize_repository_version(hash_algo, 1);
 		repo_set_hash_algo(the_repository, hash_algo);
 
 		mapped_refs = wanted_peer_refs(refs, &remote->fetch);
diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c
index cd3e760541..57e15e93da 100644
--- a/builtin/init-db.c
+++ b/builtin/init-db.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int needs_work_tree_config(const char *git_dir, const char *work_tree)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo)
+void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo, int reinit)
 {
 	char repo_version_string[10];
 	int repo_version = GIT_REPO_VERSION;
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo)
 	if (hash_algo != GIT_HASH_SHA1)
 		git_config_set("extensions.objectformat",
 			       hash_algos[hash_algo].name);
+	else if (reinit)
+		git_config_set("extensions.objectformat", NULL);
 }
 
 static int create_default_files(const char *template_path,
@@ -277,7 +279,7 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *template_path,
 		free(ref);
 	}
 
-	initialize_repository_version(fmt->hash_algo);
+	initialize_repository_version(fmt->hash_algo, 0);
 
 	/* Check filemode trustability */
 	path = git_path_buf(&buf, "config");
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index cee8aa5dc3..c0072d43b1 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ int path_inside_repo(const char *prefix, const char *path);
 int init_db(const char *git_dir, const char *real_git_dir,
 	    const char *template_dir, int hash_algo,
 	    const char *initial_branch, unsigned int flags);
-void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo);
+void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo, int reinit);
 
 void sanitize_stdfds(void);
 int daemonize(void);
diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 15fb64c18d..570d989795 100755
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -631,6 +631,16 @@ test_expect_success CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 'colliding file detection' '
 	test_i18ngrep "the following paths have collided" icasefs/warning
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH' '
+	(
+		sane_unset GIT_DEFAULT_HASH &&
+		git init test
+	) &&
+	test_commit -C test foo &&
+	git clone test test-clone &&
+	git -C test-clone status
+'
+
 partial_clone_server () {
 	       SERVER="$1" &&
 
Previous: brian m. carlsonNext: Taylor Blau
Message 3 of 15 in “Posible bug with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH during clone”
  1. Matheus TavaresSep 11, 2020
  2. brian m. carlsonSep 11, 2020
  3. builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASHbrian m. carlson, Sep 11, 2020
  4. Taylor BlauSep 12, 2020
  5. brian m. carlsonSep 12, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2020
  8. brian m. carlsonSep 15, 2020
  9. builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASHbrian m. carlson, Sep 15, 2020
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2020
  11. brian m. carlsonSep 15, 2020
  12. builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASHbrian m. carlson, Sep 20, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2020
  14. brian m. carlsonSep 22, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2020

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