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[PATCH v2] grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual chars

From
Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Date
Apr 19, 2020, 06:33 UTC
Message-ID
<77218d98948a19f91e88859519eb3c8b0e6b3bb6.1587277808.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
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<eaae7214925189f562056b1ee6972c05dcf76a32.1587103366.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br>

grep does not follow the conventions used by other Git commands when printing paths that contain unusual characters (as double-quotes or newlines). Commands such as ls-files, commit, status and diff will:

- Quote and escape unusual pathnames, by default.
- Print names verbatim and unquoted when "-z" is used.

But grep *never* quotes/escapes absolute paths with unusual chars and *always* quotes/escapes relative ones, even with "-z". Besides being inconsistent in its own output, the deviation from other Git commands can be confusing. So let's make it follow the two rules above and add some tests for this new behavior. Note that, making grep quote/escape all unusual paths by default, also make it fully compliant with the core.quotePath configuration, which is currently ignored for absolute paths.

Reported-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
---
Changes in v2:
- Squashed in Dscho's patch fixing the tests' failures in Windows by
  adding the FUNNYNAMES prereq.
 Documentation/git-grep.txt |  6 +++--
 builtin/grep.c             | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 t/t7810-grep.sh            | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index ddb6acc025..3109ce8fbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
 
 -z::
 --null::
-	Output \0 instead of the character that normally follows a
-	file name.
+	Use \0 as the delimiter for pathnames in the output, and print
+	them verbatim. Without this option, pathnames with "unusual"
+	characters are quoted as explained for the configuration
+	variable core.quotePath (see git-config(1)).
 
 -o::
 --only-matching::
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 99e2685090..bdf1a4bbc9 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -295,6 +295,38 @@ static int grep_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 	return st;
 }
 
+static void grep_source_name(struct grep_opt *opt, const char *filename,
+			     int tree_name_len, struct strbuf *out)
+{
+	strbuf_reset(out);
+
+	if (opt->null_following_name) {
+		if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length) {
+			struct strbuf rel_buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+			const char *rel_name =
+				relative_path(filename + tree_name_len,
+					      opt->prefix, &rel_buf);
+
+			if (tree_name_len)
+				strbuf_add(out, filename, tree_name_len);
+
+			strbuf_addstr(out, rel_name);
+			strbuf_release(&rel_buf);
+		} else {
+			strbuf_addstr(out, filename);
+		}
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length)
+		quote_path_relative(filename + tree_name_len, opt->prefix, out);
+	else
+		quote_c_style(filename + tree_name_len, out, NULL, 0);
+
+	if (tree_name_len)
+		strbuf_insert(out, 0, filename, tree_name_len);
+}
+
 static int grep_oid(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct object_id *oid,
 		     const char *filename, int tree_name_len,
 		     const char *path)
@@ -302,13 +334,7 @@ static int grep_oid(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct object_id *oid,
 	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct grep_source gs;
 
-	if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length) {
-		quote_path_relative(filename + tree_name_len, opt->prefix, &pathbuf);
-		strbuf_insert(&pathbuf, 0, filename, tree_name_len);
-	} else {
-		strbuf_addstr(&pathbuf, filename);
-	}
-
+	grep_source_name(opt, filename, tree_name_len, &pathbuf);
 	grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_OID, pathbuf.buf, path, oid);
 	strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
 
@@ -334,11 +360,7 @@ static int grep_file(struct grep_opt *opt, const char *filename)
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct grep_source gs;
 
-	if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length)
-		quote_path_relative(filename, opt->prefix, &buf);
-	else
-		strbuf_addstr(&buf, filename);
-
+	grep_source_name(opt, filename, 0, &buf);
 	grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_FILE, buf.buf, filename, filename);
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index 7d7b396c23..991d5bd9c0 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ test_expect_success setup '
 	# Still a no-op.
 	function dummy() {}
 	EOF
+	if test_have_prereq FUNNYNAMES
+	then
+		echo unusual >"\"unusual\" pathname" &&
+		echo unusual >"t/nested \"unusual\" pathname"
+	fi &&
 	git add . &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -m initial
@@ -481,6 +486,48 @@ do
 		git grep --count -h -e b $H -- ab >actual &&
 		test_cmp expected actual
 	'
+
+	test_expect_success FUNNYNAMES "grep $L should quote unusual pathnames" '
+		cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+		${HC}"\"unusual\" pathname":unusual
+		${HC}"t/nested \"unusual\" pathname":unusual
+		EOF
+		git grep unusual $H >actual &&
+		test_cmp expected actual
+	'
+
+	test_expect_success FUNNYNAMES "grep $L in subdir should quote unusual relative pathnames" '
+		cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+		${HC}"nested \"unusual\" pathname":unusual
+		EOF
+		(
+			cd t &&
+			git grep unusual $H
+		) >actual &&
+		test_cmp expected actual
+	'
+
+	test_expect_success FUNNYNAMES "grep -z $L with unusual pathnames" '
+		cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+		${HC}"unusual" pathname:unusual
+		${HC}t/nested "unusual" pathname:unusual
+		EOF
+		git grep -z unusual $H >actual &&
+		tr "\0" ":" <actual >actual-replace-null &&
+		test_cmp expected actual-replace-null
+	'
+
+	test_expect_success FUNNYNAMES "grep -z $L in subdir with unusual relative pathnames" '
+		cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+		${HC}nested "unusual" pathname:unusual
+		EOF
+		(
+			cd t &&
+			git grep -z unusual $H
+		) >actual &&
+		tr "\0" ":" <actual >actual-replace-null &&
+		test_cmp expected actual-replace-null
+	'
 done
 
 cat >expected <<EOF
-- 
2.26.0
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  1. Greg HurrellApr 13, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2020
  3. Matheus Tavares, Apr 14, 2020
  4. Matheus Tavares BernardinoApr 16, 2020
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2020
  6. grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual charsMatheus Tavares, Apr 17, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2020
  8. Matheus Tavares BernardinoApr 17, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2020
  10. Johannes SchindelinApr 18, 2020
  11. Johannes SchindelinApr 18, 2020
  12. Matheus Tavares BernardinoApr 19, 2020
  13. grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual charsMatheus Tavares, Apr 19, 2020

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