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[PATCH v2 1/8] discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dir

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 8, 2017, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID
<effd58a564e54ccd3d695d91bc9c4f32255b8ab7.1496951503.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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When discovering a .git/ directory, we take pains to ensure that its repository format version matches Git's expectations, and we return NULL otherwise.

However, we still appended the invalid path to the strbuf passed as argument.

Let's just reset the strbuf to the state before we appended the .git/ directory that was eventually rejected.

There is another early return path in that function, when setup_git_directory_gently_1() returns GIT_DIR_NONE or an error. In that case, the gitdir parameter has not been touched, therefore there is no need for an equivalent change in that code path.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 setup.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index e3f7699a902..2435186e448 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ const char *discover_git_directory(struct strbuf *gitdir)
 		warning("ignoring git dir '%s': %s",
 			gitdir->buf + gitdir_offset, err.buf);
 		strbuf_release(&err);
+		strbuf_setlen(gitdir, gitdir_offset);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.13.0.windows.1.460.g13f583bedb5
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  1. 0/8 Avoid problem where git_dir is set after alias expansionJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  2. 2/8 config: report correct line number upon errorJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  3. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  4. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2017
  5. Jeff KingJun 13, 2017
  6. 4/8 read_early_config(): optionally return the worktree's top-level directoryJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  7. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  8. 1/8 discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dirJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  9. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  10. 3/8 help: use early config when autocorrecting aliasesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  11. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  12. 5/8 t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowedJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2017
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2017
  16. 6/8 t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectoriesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  17. 8/8 Use the early config machinery to expand aliasesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  18. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  19. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  21. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2017
  22. Jeff KingJun 13, 2017
  23. 7/8 alias_lookup(): optionally return top-level directoryJohannes Schindelin, Jun 8, 2017
  24. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  25. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2017
  26. Jeff KingJun 13, 2017
  27. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2017
  28. Jeff KingJun 13, 2017
  29. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2017
  30. Jeff KingJun 14, 2017
  31. Johannes SchindelinJun 14, 2017
  32. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017

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