Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ls-files: fix bug when recursing with relative pathspec

> When using the --recurse-submodules flag with a relative pathspec which
> includes "..", an error is produced inside the child process spawned for a
> submodule.  When creating the pathspec struct in the child, the ".." is
> interpreted to mean "go up a directory" which causes an error stating that the
> path ".." is outside of the repository.
>
> While it is true that ".." is outside the scope of the submodule, it is
> confusing to a user who originally invoked the command where ".." was indeed
> still inside the scope of the superproject.  Since the child process launched
> for the submodule has some context that it is operating underneath a
> superproject, this error could be avoided.
>
> This patch fixes the bug by passing the 'prefix' to the child process.  Now
> each child process that works on a submodule has two points of reference to the
> superproject: (1) the 'super_prefix' which is the path from the root of the
> superproject down to root of the submodule and (2) the 'prefix' which is the
> path from the root of the superproject down to the directory where the user
> invoked the git command.
>
> With these two pieces of information a child process can correctly interpret
> the pathspecs provided by the user as well as being able to properly format its
> output relative to the directory the user invoked the original command from.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
> ---
>  builtin/ls-files.c                     | 41 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  t/t3007-ls-files-recurse-submodules.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/ls-files.c b/builtin/ls-files.c
> index 1c0f057d0..d449e46db 100644
> --- a/builtin/ls-files.c
> +++ b/builtin/ls-files.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ static int line_terminator = '\n';
>  static int debug_mode;
>  static int show_eol;
>  static int recurse_submodules;
> -static struct argv_array submodules_options = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
> +static struct argv_array submodule_options = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
>
>  static const char *prefix;
>  static const char *super_prefix;
> @@ -172,20 +172,27 @@ static void show_killed_files(struct dir_struct *dir)
>  /*
>   * Compile an argv_array with all of the options supported by --recurse_submodules
>   */
> -static void compile_submodule_options(const struct dir_struct *dir, int show_tag)
> +static void compile_submodule_options(const char **argv,
> +                                     const struct dir_struct *dir,
> +                                     int show_tag)
>  {
>         if (line_terminator == '\0')
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "-z");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "-z");
>         if (show_tag)
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "-t");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "-t");
>         if (show_valid_bit)
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "-v");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "-v");
>         if (show_cached)
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "--cached");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "--cached");
>         if (show_eol)
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "--eol");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "--eol");
>         if (debug_mode)
> -               argv_array_push(&submodules_options, "--debug");
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "--debug");

> +
> +       /* Add Pathspecs */
> +       argv_array_push(&submodule_options, "--");
> +       for (; *argv; argv++)
> +               argv_array_push(&submodule_options, *argv);
>  }