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[PATCH] maintenance: fix incorrect `maintenance.repo` path with bare repository

From
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Feb 23, 2021, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID
<20210223073107.40675-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com>

The periodic maintenance tasks configured by `git maintenance start` invoke `git for-each-repo` to run `git maintenance run` on each path specified by the multi-value global configuration variable `maintenance.repo`. Because `git for-each-repo` will likely be run outside of the repositories which require periodic maintenance, it is mandatory that the repository paths specified by `maintenance.repo` are absolute.

Unfortunately, however, `git maintenance register` does nothing to ensure that the paths it assigns to `maintenance.repo` are indeed absolute, and may in fact -- especially in the case of a bare repository -- assign a relative path to `maintenance.repo` instead. Fix this problem by converting all paths to absolute before assigning them to `maintenance.repo`.

While at it, also fix `git maintenance unregister` to convert paths to absolute, as well, in order to ensure that it can correctly remove from `maintenance.repo` a path assigned via `git maintenance register`.

Reported-by: Clement Moyroud <clement.moyroud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---

Reported by Clement here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABXAcUzRhkeQhVtwtx-NBR0hbkoo=aCTwN464Dsj8680GPMDxw@mail.gmail.com/

builtin/gc.c           | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 t/t7900-maintenance.sh | 13 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c
index 6db9cb39e6..ef7226d7bc 100644
--- a/builtin/gc.c
+++ b/builtin/gc.c
@@ -1461,11 +1461,23 @@ static int maintenance_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	return maintenance_run_tasks(&opts);
 }
 
+static char *get_maintpath(void)
+{
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+	const char *p = the_repository->worktree ?
+		the_repository->worktree : the_repository->gitdir;
+
+	strbuf_realpath(&sb, p, 1);
+	return strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
+}
+
 static int maintenance_register(void)
 {
+	int rc;
 	char *config_value;
 	struct child_process config_set = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 	struct child_process config_get = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+	char *maintpath = get_maintpath();
 
 	/* Disable foreground maintenance */
 	git_config_set("maintenance.auto", "false");
@@ -1478,40 +1490,44 @@ static int maintenance_register(void)
 
 	config_get.git_cmd = 1;
 	strvec_pushl(&config_get.args, "config", "--global", "--get",
-		     "--fixed-value", "maintenance.repo",
-		     the_repository->worktree ? the_repository->worktree
-					      : the_repository->gitdir,
-			 NULL);
+		     "--fixed-value", "maintenance.repo", maintpath, NULL);
 	config_get.out = -1;
 
-	if (start_command(&config_get))
-		return error(_("failed to run 'git config'"));
+	if (start_command(&config_get)) {
+		rc = error(_("failed to run 'git config'"));
+		goto done;
+	}
 
 	/* We already have this value in our config! */
-	if (!finish_command(&config_get))
-		return 0;
+	if (!finish_command(&config_get)) {
+		rc = 0;
+		goto done;
+	}
 
 	config_set.git_cmd = 1;
 	strvec_pushl(&config_set.args, "config", "--add", "--global", "maintenance.repo",
-		     the_repository->worktree ? the_repository->worktree
-					      : the_repository->gitdir,
-		     NULL);
+		     maintpath, NULL);
+
+	rc = run_command(&config_set);
 
-	return run_command(&config_set);
+done:
+	free(maintpath);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static int maintenance_unregister(void)
 {
+	int rc;
 	struct child_process config_unset = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+	char *maintpath = get_maintpath();
 
 	config_unset.git_cmd = 1;
 	strvec_pushl(&config_unset.args, "config", "--global", "--unset",
-		     "--fixed-value", "maintenance.repo",
-		     the_repository->worktree ? the_repository->worktree
-					      : the_repository->gitdir,
-		     NULL);
+		     "--fixed-value", "maintenance.repo", maintpath, NULL);
 
-	return run_command(&config_unset);
+	rc = run_command(&config_unset);
+	free(maintpath);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static const char *get_frequency(enum schedule_priority schedule)
diff --git a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
index 286b18db3c..2412d8c5c0 100755
--- a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
+++ b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
@@ -632,4 +632,17 @@ test_expect_success 'fails when running outside of a repository' '
 	nongit test_must_fail git maintenance unregister
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'register and unregister bare repo' '
+	test_when_finished "git config --global --unset-all maintenance.repo || :" &&
+	test_might_fail git config --global --unset-all maintenance.repo &&
+	git init --bare barerepo &&
+	(
+		cd barerepo &&
+		git maintenance register &&
+		git config --get --global --fixed-value maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
+		git maintenance unregister &&
+		test_must_fail git config --global --get-all maintenance.repo
+	)
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
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