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Archive from bare repo?

Subject: Archive from bare repo?

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4 messages between Sep 20, 2024 and Sep 21, 2024.

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Ronan Pigott· Sep 20, 2024, 17:48 UTC · lore
Hi git,

I'm trying and failing to create a specific archive from a bare repo. The following all works correctly:

  $ git clone https://my.git.repo/test --bare test
  $ git --git-dir=test archive @ | tar -tf - # archive of full repo
  $ git --git-dir=test cat-file -p @:.gitattributes # shows subset of files with myattr set
  $ git --work-tree=/var/empty --git-dir=test reset --mixed
  $ git --work-tree=/var/empty --git-dir=test ls-files ':(attr:myattr)' # list of files with myattr set
Now I get:
  $ git --git-dir=test archive @ ':(attr:login)'
  fatal: pathspec ':(attr:login)' did not match any files

The manpage indicates that git-archive should use the .gitattributes from the archived tree, and as indicated above it has the expected content. Why doesn't this produce an archive with the files listed by ls-files from above? Is there a way to achive the archive I want?

Thanks, Ronan

Ronan Pigott· Sep 20, 2024, 17:53 UTC · re: Ronan Pigott · lore

Re: Archive from bare repo?

September 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM, "Ronan Pigott" <ronan@rjp.ie> wrote:
>  $ git --work-tree=/var/empty --git-dir=test ls-files ':(attr:myattr)' # list of files with myattr set
>  $ git --git-dir=test archive @ ':(attr:login)'
> 
>  fatal: pathspec ':(attr:login)' did not match any files

Sorry for the typo, both cases are using the same pathspec ':(attr:login)' but the issue as described remains.

René Scharfe· Sep 21, 2024, 20:23 UTC · re: Ronan Pigott · lore

[PATCH] archive: load index before pathspec checks

git archive checks whether pathspec arguments match anything to avoid surprises due to typos and later loads the index to get attributes.

This order was OK when these features were introduced by ba053ea96c (archive: do not read .gitattributes in working directory, 2009-04-18) and d5f53d6d6f (archive: complain about path specs that don't match anything, 2009-12-12).

But when attribute matching was added to pathspec in b0db704652 (pathspec: allow querying for attributes, 2017-03-13), the pathspec checker in git archive did not support it fully, because it lacks the attributes from the index.

Load the index earlier, before the pathspec check, to support attr pathspecs.

Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 archive.c           | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 t/t5000-tar-tree.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index 9ba96aae4f..58f86bf75c 100644
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -304,8 +304,6 @@ int write_archive_entries(struct archiver_args *args,
 		write_archive_entry_fn_t write_entry)
 {
 	struct archiver_context context;
-	struct unpack_trees_options opts;
-	struct tree_desc t;
 	int err;
 	struct strbuf path_in_archive = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct strbuf content = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -331,23 +329,6 @@ int write_archive_entries(struct archiver_args *args,
 	context.args = args;
 	context.write_entry = write_entry;

-	/*
-	 * Setup index and instruct attr to read index only
-	 */
-	if (!args->worktree_attributes) {
-		memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts));
-		opts.index_only = 1;
-		opts.head_idx = -1;
-		opts.src_index = args->repo->index;
-		opts.dst_index = args->repo->index;
-		opts.fn = oneway_merge;
-		init_tree_desc(&t, &args->tree->object.oid,
-			       args->tree->buffer, args->tree->size);
-		if (unpack_trees(1, &t, &opts))
-			return -1;
-		git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_INDEX);
-	}
-
 	err = read_tree(args->repo, args->tree,
 			&args->pathspec,
 			queue_or_write_archive_entry,
@@ -540,6 +521,26 @@ static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
 	if (!tree)
 		die(_("not a tree object: %s"), oid_to_hex(&oid));

+	/*
+	 * Setup index and instruct attr to read index only
+	 */
+	if (!ar_args->worktree_attributes) {
+		struct unpack_trees_options opts;
+		struct tree_desc t;
+
+		memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts));
+		opts.index_only = 1;
+		opts.head_idx = -1;
+		opts.src_index = ar_args->repo->index;
+		opts.dst_index = ar_args->repo->index;
+		opts.fn = oneway_merge;
+		init_tree_desc(&t, &tree->object.oid, tree->buffer, tree->size);
+		if (unpack_trees(1, &t, &opts))
+			die(_("unable to checkout working tree"));
+
+		git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_INDEX);
+	}
+
 	ar_args->refname = ref;
 	ar_args->tree = tree;
 	ar_args->commit_oid = commit_oid;
diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
index 7abba8a4b2..b9fda973f7 100755
--- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
+++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ test_expect_success 'end-of-options is correctly eaten' '

 test_expect_success 'populate workdir' '
 	mkdir a &&
+	echo "a files_named_a" >.gitattributes &&
+	git add .gitattributes &&
 	echo simple textfile >a/a &&
 	ten=0123456789 &&
 	hundred="$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten$ten" &&
@@ -450,6 +452,16 @@ test_expect_success 'allow pathspecs that resolve to the current directory' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '

+test_expect_success 'attr pathspec in bare repo' '
+	test_expect_code 0 git --git-dir=bare.git archive -v HEAD \
+		":(attr:files_named_a)" >/dev/null 2>actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	a/
+	a/a
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 # Pull the size and date of each entry in a tarfile using the system tar.
 #
 # We'll pull out only the year from the date; that avoids any question of
--
2.46.0
René Scharfe· Sep 21, 2024, 22:02 UTC · lore

Re: [PATCH] archive: load index before pathspec checks

Hello Ronan,
Am 21.09.24 um 23:23 schrieb Ronan Pigott:
> Thanks for the patch. I tried it applied to 2.46.1 and it works as expected.
thank you for testing, and for the original report!
René

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