Re: [PATCH] sequencer: tolerate abbreviated stopped-sha file

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2020, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd01b429a.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201021220353.928067-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

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> In 0512eabd91 ("sequencer: stop abbreviating stopped-sha file",
> 2020-09-25), Git was taught both to write full object names to the
> stopped-sha file and to require full object names when reading. However,
> a user would experience a problem if they started an interactive rebase
> using an old version of Git and then continued with a current version of
> Git (for example, if the system version of Git was updated in the
> meantime).
>
> Teach Git to allow object names of any length when reading.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
> ---
> Not sure how big of a problem this will potentially be, but I noticed it
> and wanted to mention it.

If I didn't mention that I deliberately chose to declare it a non-issue during the discussion, that was my mistake.

If this is not causing real-world problem, I'd in principle prefer to keep the "expect full hex when reading what's supposed to be written as full hex" sanity checking, but this is a file that is purely internal between the two invocation of the program and not even known by mere end users, so I could be persuaded to change my mind on this particular case.

Assuming that the "use case" is real, the patch is obviously correct. We won't write anything but a commit object name so using oid_committish() would not change the behaviour in good cases.

Thanks.

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> ---
>  sequencer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index 00acb12496..37847d4534 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -2653,7 +2653,7 @@ static int read_populate_opts(struct replay_opts *opts)
>  		}
>  
>  		if (read_oneliner(&buf, rebase_path_squash_onto(), 0)) {
> -			if (get_oid_hex(buf.buf, &opts->squash_onto) < 0) {
> +			if (get_oid_committish(buf.buf, &opts->squash_onto) < 0) {
>  				ret = error(_("unusable squash-onto"));
>  				goto done_rebase_i;
>  			}