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[filter-repo PATCH] Don't crash on multi-line config values

From
THToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Date
Dec 14, 2024, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20241214181306.296673-1-toke@toke.dk>

The parsing of the output of `git config --list` fails if any of the config values contain newlines. Fix this by using the --null parameter to `git config`, which is designed for this purpose.

Add a simple test that causes the crash pre-patch.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
---
 git-filter-repo               |  6 +++---
 t/t9390-filter-repo-basics.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-filter-repo b/git-filter-repo
index a40bce548d2c..3b75eadd81d7 100755
--- a/git-filter-repo
+++ b/git-filter-repo
@@ -1683,14 +1683,14 @@ class GitUtils(object):
   def get_config_settings(repo_working_dir):
     output = ''
     try:
-      output = subproc.check_output('git config --list'.split(),
+      output = subproc.check_output('git config --list --null'.split(),
                                     cwd=repo_working_dir)
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: # pragma: no cover
       raise SystemExit('fatal: {}'.format(e))
 
     # FIXME: Ignores multi-valued keys, just let them overwrite for now
-    return dict(line.split(b'=', maxsplit=1)
-                for line in output.strip().split(b"\n"))
+    return dict(item.split(b'\n', maxsplit=1)
+                for item in output.strip().split(b"\0") if item)
 
   @staticmethod
   def get_blob_sizes(quiet = False):
diff --git a/t/t9390-filter-repo-basics.sh b/t/t9390-filter-repo-basics.sh
index c129799fb6a5..1dc2dca789ab 100755
--- a/t/t9390-filter-repo-basics.sh
+++ b/t/t9390-filter-repo-basics.sh
@@ -895,4 +895,15 @@ test_expect_success 'origin refs without origin remote does not die' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'multi-line config value' '
+	test_create_repo multiline_config &&
+	(
+		cd multiline_config &&
+
+		git config set test.test "test
+test" &&
+		git filter-repo --force
+	)
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.47.1
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