Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] daemon: recognize hidden request arguments

> A normal request to git-daemon is structured as
> "command path/to/repo\0host=..\0" and due to a bug in an old version of
> git-daemon 73bb33a94 (daemon: Strictly parse the "extra arg" part of the
> command, 2009-06-04) we aren't able to place any extra args (separated
> by NULs) besides the host.

> +static void parse_extra_args(struct hostinfo *hi, struct argv_array *env,
> +			     char *extra_args, int buflen)
> +{
> +	const char *end = extra_args + buflen;
> +	struct strbuf git_protocol = STRBUF_INIT;
> +
> +	/* First look for the host argument */
> +	extra_args = parse_host_arg(hi, extra_args, buflen);
> +
> +	/* Look for additional arguments places after a second NUL byte */
> +	for (; extra_args < end; extra_args += strlen(extra_args) + 1) {
> +		const char *arg = extra_args;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Parse the extra arguments, adding most to 'git_protocol'
> +		 * which will be used to set the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' envvar in the
> +		 * service that will be run.
> +		 *
> +		 * If there ends up being a particular arg in the future that
> +		 * git-daemon needs to parse specificly (like the 'host' arg)
> +		 * then it can be parsed here and not added to 'git_protocol'.
> +		 */
> +		if (*arg) {
> +			if (git_protocol.len > 0)
> +				strbuf_addch(&git_protocol, ':');
> +			strbuf_addstr(&git_protocol, arg);
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (git_protocol.len > 0)
> +		argv_array_pushf(env, GIT_PROTOCOL_ENVIRONMENT "=%s",
> +				 git_protocol.buf);
> +	strbuf_release(&git_protocol);
>  }