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Fix per-directory exclude handing for "git add"

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2007, 09:15 UTC
Message-ID
<7vodduzh36.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<7vir4341ok.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

In "dir_struct", each exclusion element in the exclusion stack records a base string (pointer to the beginning with length) so that we can tell where it came from, but this pointer is just pointing at the parameter that is given by the caller to the push_exclude_per_directory() function.

While read_directory_recursive() runs, calls to excluded() makes use the data in the exclusion elements, including this base string. The caller of read_directory_recursive() is not supposed to free the buffer it gave to push_exclude_per_directory() earlier, until it returns.

The test case Bruce Stephens gave in the mailing list discussion was simplified and added to the t3700 test.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
 > Here is a tentative patch.  I do not think the patch is broken
 > but I call it tentative because:
 >
 >  - It is ugly -- I never get this "walking path delimited by
 >    slashes" loop right;
 >
 >  - It leaks the path buffer given to push(), but it is inherent
 >    in the design of "push/pop exclude per-directory" API.
 It turns out that a minimally invasive fix was a lot simpler
 than I thought.
 This still does not fix the other codepaths in ls-files that does not
 use read_directory() but walks the cache.
 dir.c          |    6 ++++--
 t/t3700-add.sh |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index fa9f902..225fdfb 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ static void free_simplify(struct path_simplify *simplify)
 int read_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, const char *base, int baselen, const char **pathspec)
 {
 	struct path_simplify *simplify = create_simplify(pathspec);
+	char *pp = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Make sure to do the per-directory exclude for all the
@@ -661,7 +662,8 @@ int read_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, const char *base, i
 	 */
 	if (baselen) {
 		if (dir->exclude_per_dir) {
-			char *p, *pp = xmalloc(baselen+1);
+			char *p;
+			pp = xmalloc(baselen+1);
 			memcpy(pp, base, baselen+1);
 			p = pp;
 			while (1) {
@@ -677,12 +679,12 @@ int read_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, const char *base, i
 				else
 					p = pp + baselen;
 			}
-			free(pp);
 		}
 	}
 
 	read_directory_recursive(dir, path, base, baselen, 0, simplify);
 	free_simplify(simplify);
+	free(pp);
 	qsort(dir->entries, dir->nr, sizeof(struct dir_entry *), cmp_name);
 	qsort(dir->ignored, dir->ignored_nr, sizeof(struct dir_entry *), cmp_name);
 	return dir->nr;
diff --git a/t/t3700-add.sh b/t/t3700-add.sh
index a328bf5..287e058 100755
--- a/t/t3700-add.sh
+++ b/t/t3700-add.sh
@@ -104,9 +104,33 @@ test_expect_success 'add ignored ones with -f' '
 	git ls-files --error-unmatch d.ig/d.if d.ig/d.ig
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'add ignored ones with -f' '
+	rm -f .git/index &&
+	git add -f d.?? &&
+	git ls-files --error-unmatch d.ig/d.if d.ig/d.ig
+'
+
+test_expect_success '.gitignore with subdirectory' '
+
+	rm -f .git/index &&
+	mkdir -p sub/dir &&
+	echo "!dir/a.*" >sub/.gitignore &&
+	>sub/a.ig &&
+	>sub/dir/a.ig &&
+	git add sub/dir &&
+	git ls-files --error-unmatch sub/dir/a.ig &&
+	rm -f .git/index &&
+	(
+		cd sub/dir &&
+		git add .
+	) &&
+	git ls-files --error-unmatch sub/dir/a.ig
+'
+
 mkdir 1 1/2 1/3
 touch 1/2/a 1/3/b 1/2/c
 test_expect_success 'check correct prefix detection' '
+	rm -f .git/index &&
 	git add 1/2/a 1/3/b 1/2/c
 '
 
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  1. Bruce StephensNov 15, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2007
  3. Bruce StephensNov 15, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2007
  6. Fix per-directory exclude handing for "git add"Junio C Hamano, Nov 16, 2007
  7. Bruce StephensNov 16, 2007
  8. Bruce StephensNov 16, 2007

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