Revision b2732e609785dbaa8f13e6c8d80f8e1eb0baae8f authored by Johannes Schindelin on 17 December 2019, 12:16:34 UTC, committed by Johannes Schindelin on 09 January 2020, 11:54:30 UTC
In 224c7d70fa1 (mingw: only test index entries for backslashes, not tree
entries, 2019-12-31), we relaxed the check for backslashes in tree
entries to check only index entries.

However, the code change was incorrect: it was added to
`add_index_entry_with_check()`, not to `add_index_entry()`, so under
certain circumstances it was possible to side-step the protection.

Besides, the description of that commit purported that all index entries
would be checked when in fact they were only checked when being added to
the index (there are code paths that do not do that, constructing
"transient" index entries).

In any case, it was pointed out in one insightful review at
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2437#issuecomment-566771835
that it would be a much better idea to teach `verify_path()` to perform
the check for a backslash. This is safer, even if it comes with two
notable drawbacks:

- `verify_path()` cannot say _what_ is wrong with the path, therefore
  the user will no longer be told that there was a backslash in the
  path, only that the path was invalid.

- The `git apply` command also calls the `verify_path()` function, and
  might have been able to handle Windows-style paths (i.e. with
  backslashes instead of forward slashes). This will no longer be
  possible unless the user (temporarily) sets `core.protectNTFS=false`.

Note that `git add <windows-path>` will _still_ work because
`normalize_path_copy_len()` will convert the backslashes to forward
slashes before hitting the code path that creates an index entry.

The clear advantage is that `verify_path()`'s purpose is to check the
validity of the file name, therefore we naturally tap into all the code
paths that need safeguarding, also implicitly into future code paths.

The benefits of that approach outweigh the downsides, so let's move the
check from `add_index_entry_with_check()` to `verify_path()`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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log-tree.h
#ifndef LOG_TREE_H
#define LOG_TREE_H

#include "revision.h"

struct log_info {
	struct commit *commit, *parent;
};

struct decoration_filter {
	struct string_list *include_ref_pattern, *exclude_ref_pattern;
};

int parse_decorate_color_config(const char *var, const char *slot_name, const char *value);
void init_log_tree_opt(struct rev_info *);
int log_tree_diff_flush(struct rev_info *);
int log_tree_commit(struct rev_info *, struct commit *);
int log_tree_opt_parse(struct rev_info *, const char **, int);
void show_log(struct rev_info *opt);
void format_decorations_extended(struct strbuf *sb, const struct commit *commit,
			     int use_color,
			     const char *prefix,
			     const char *separator,
			     const char *suffix);
#define format_decorations(strbuf, commit, color) \
			     format_decorations_extended((strbuf), (commit), (color), " (", ", ", ")")
void show_decorations(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit);
void log_write_email_headers(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit,
			     const char **extra_headers_p,
			     int *need_8bit_cte_p,
			     int maybe_multipart);
void load_ref_decorations(struct decoration_filter *filter, int flags);

#define FORMAT_PATCH_NAME_MAX 64
void fmt_output_commit(struct strbuf *, struct commit *, struct rev_info *);
void fmt_output_subject(struct strbuf *, const char *subject, struct rev_info *);
void fmt_output_email_subject(struct strbuf *, struct rev_info *);

#endif
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