Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] credentials: make line reading Windows compatible

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2020, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd025jwpc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPUEspgW9CFO3WtbiuTUsmXp05fPqr2Cs81piDJFJ0g3KcTy3A@mail.gmail.com>

Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

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>> -test_expect_success 'get: credentials with DOS line endings are invalid if path is relevant' '
>> +test_expect_success 'get: credentials with DOS line endings are valid if path is relevant' '
>
> note that this test was put in place to protect users from regressions
> like the one we got after the release of 2.26.1 where users that had
> '\r' as part of their credentials were getting an error[1]
>
> while I am sympathetic to the change (indeed I proposed something
> similar, but was reminded by Peff that while it looks like a text file
> it was designed to be considered opaque and therefore should use UNIX
> LF as record terminator by specification), I am concerned this could
> result in a similar regression since we know they are still users out
> there that had modified this file manually (something that was not
> recommended) and are currently relying on the fact that these lines
> are invalid and therefore silently ignored.
>
> Carlo
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/ad80aa0d-3a35-6d7e-7958-b3520e16c855@ed4u.de/

I think you meant to remind us and this thread of the earlier review and discussion thread, which begins at

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200426234750.40418-1-carenas@gmail.com/

And thanks for doing so---I totally forgot about it.