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patch(Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

Subject: (Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

## tl;dr

6 messages between Jul 30, 2007 and Aug 15, 2007. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Robert Ewald· Jul 30, 2007, 09:08 UTC · lore

In git some characters are invalid as documented in git-check-ref-format. In subversion these characters might be valid, so a translation is required.

This patch does this translation by url escaping characters, that are not allowed.

Credit goes to Eric Wong, martin f. krafft and Jan Hudec
Signed-off-by: Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net>
---

Second posting of translating characters. I hope I got it right this time. Thanks to Alex for taking the time to point me to Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

 git-svn.perl |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Show changes to git-svn.perl +35 −3
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 6c692a7..bc55d05 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -938,8 +938,8 @@ sub resolve_local_globs {
        foreach (command(qw#for-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/remotes#)) {
                next unless m#^refs/remotes/$ref->{regex}$#;
                my $p = $1;
-               my $pathname = $path->full_path($p);
-               my $refname = $ref->full_path($p);
+               my $pathname = desanitize_refname($path->full_path($p));
+               my $refname = desanitize_refname($ref->full_path($p));
                if (my $existing = $fetch->{$pathname}) {
                        if ($existing ne $refname) {
                                die "Refspec conflict:\n",
@@ -1239,7 +1239,39 @@ sub new {
        $self;
 }
 
-sub refname { "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" }
+sub refname {
+        my ($refname) = "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" ;
+
+        # It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
+        # SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
+        if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
+                die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
+                    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
+        }
+
+        # It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
+        # colon :, question-mark ?, asterisk *, space, or open bracket [
+        # anywhere.
+        #
+        # Additionally, % must be escaped because it is used for escaping
+        # and we want our escaped refname to be reversible
+        $refname =~ s{([ \%~\^:\?\*\[\t])}{uc sprintf('%%%02x',ord($1))}eg;
+
+        # no slash-separated component can begin with a dot .
+        # /.* becomes /%2E*
+        $refname =~ s{/\.}{/%2E}g;
+        # It cannot have two consecutive dots .. anywhere
+        # .. becomes %2E%2E
+        $refname =~ s{\.\.}{%2E%2E}g;
+
+        $refname;
+}
+
+sub desanitize_refname {
+    my ($refname) = @_;
+    $refname =~ s{%(?:([0-9A-F]{2}))}{chr hex($1)}eg;
+    $refname;
+}
 
 sub svm_uuid {
        my ($self) = @_;
-- 
1.5.3.rc3-dirty
Junio C Hamano· Jul 30, 2007, 10:07 UTC · re: Robert Ewald · lore

Re: (Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

Robert Ewald <robert.ewald@nov.com> writes:
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> +sub refname {
> +        my ($refname) = "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" ;
> +
> +        # It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
> +        # SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
> +        if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
> +                die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
> +                    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
> +        }
> +
> +        # It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
> +        # colon :, question-mark ?, asterisk *, space, or open bracket [
> +        # anywhere.
> +        #
> +        # Additionally, % must be escaped because it is used for escaping
> +        # and we want our escaped refname to be reversible
> +        $refname =~ s{([ \%~\^:\?\*\[\t])}{uc sprintf('%%%02x',ord($1))}eg;
uc of sprintf()?  You meant "%%%02X"?

Other than that, looks sane to me. I presume that SVN branches whose name would be mangled with this patch would not have been successfully imported with older git-svn anyway, so this won't introduce any regressions?

Eric?
Robert Ewald· Jul 30, 2007, 13:33 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: (Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Robert Ewald <robert.ewald@nov.com> writes:
> 
>> +sub refname {
>> +        my ($refname) = "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" ;
>> +
>> +        # It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
>> +        # SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
>> +        if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
>> +                die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
>> +                    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        # It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
>> +        # colon :, question-mark ?, asterisk *, space, or open bracket [
>> +        # anywhere.
>> +        #
>> +        # Additionally, % must be escaped because it is used for escaping
>> +        # and we want our escaped refname to be reversible
>> +        $refname =~ s{([ \%~\^:\?\*\[\t])}{uc sprintf('%%%02x',ord($1))}eg;
> 
> uc of sprintf()?  You meant "%%%02X"?

You are right. Being a total Perl noob I just took Eric's suggestion from an earlier post without really understanding everything.

> Other than that, looks sane to me.  I presume that SVN branches
> whose name would be mangled with this patch would not have been
> successfully imported with older git-svn anyway, so this won't
> introduce any regressions?

Now that you mention it, I am not entirely sure. We introduce the % which is mangled as well. It wasn't mangled before.

I now could think of a case that someone has a git-svn branch with a % in the name checked out.

When updates are fetched a new branch head would be created. It wouldn't destroy anything, but a script might break. On the other hand, the script needs to be updated anyway. So I am not sure if % should be handled separately.

> Eric?
Yes, Eric, please comment.
-- 
Robert Ewald
Eric Wong· Jul 30, 2007, 19:29 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: (Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Robert Ewald <robert.ewald@nov.com> writes:
> 
> > +sub refname {
> > +        my ($refname) = "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" ;
> > +
> > +        # It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
> > +        # SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
> > +        if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
> > +                die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
> > +                    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        # It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
> > +        # colon :, question-mark ?, asterisk *, space, or open bracket [
> > +        # anywhere.
> > +        #
> > +        # Additionally, % must be escaped because it is used for escaping
> > +        # and we want our escaped refname to be reversible
> > +        $refname =~ s{([ \%~\^:\?\*\[\t])}{uc sprintf('%%%02x',ord($1))}eg;
> 
> uc of sprintf()?  You meant "%%%02X"?

Ah, I wasn't sure if X was portable enough, but then again this sprintf is in Perl.

> Other than that, looks sane to me.  I presume that SVN branches
> whose name would be mangled with this patch would not have been
> successfully imported with older git-svn anyway, so this won't
> introduce any regressions?

Seems alright to me, I haven't had a chance to look at it too hard. I'm out of town and haven't been following the mailing list lately.

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
-- 
Eric Wong
martin f krafft· Aug 15, 2007, 22:53 UTC · re: Robert Ewald · lore

Re: (Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

also sprach Robert Ewald <robert.ewald@nov.com> [2007.07.30.1108 +0200]:
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> In git some characters are invalid as documented
> in git-check-ref-format. In subversion these characters might
> be valid, so a translation is required.
> 
> This patch does this translation by url escaping characters, that
> are not allowed.

Have you worked more on this? I am back now and could test it on various svn imports. Just want to make sure I have the latest version.

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