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authorAdrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>2026-01-12 20:46:23 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-01-12 11:56:55 -0800
commit05a1cdb5255b2b438e66bdaa91b7b2ce75fbe71b (patch)
tree5fbb979a59dde6dc7c5db28f50aee21d5103d573 /submodule.c
parentb60f7d890dee571069f9c3c6d44ecaed5c34fa39 (diff)
downloadgit-05a1cdb5255b2b438e66bdaa91b7b2ce75fbe71b.tar.xz
submodule: always validate gitdirs inside submodule_name_to_gitdir
Move the ad-hoc validation checks sprinkled across the source tree, after calling submodule_name_to_gitdir() into the function proper, which now always validates the gitdir before returning it. This simplifies the API and helps to: 1. Avoid redundant validation calls after submodule_name_to_gitdir(). 2. Avoid the risk of callers forgetting to validate. 3. Ensure gitdir paths provided by users via configs are always valid (config gitdir paths are added in a subsequent commit). The validation function can still be called as many times as needed outside submodule_name_to_gitdir(), for example we keep two calls which are still required, to avoid parallel clone races by re-running the validation in builtin/submodule-helper.c. Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'submodule.c')
-rw-r--r--submodule.c12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 35c55155f7..d937911fbc 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -2172,11 +2172,6 @@ int submodule_move_head(const char *path, const char *super_prefix,
struct strbuf gitdir = STRBUF_INIT;
submodule_name_to_gitdir(&gitdir, the_repository,
sub->name);
- if (validate_submodule_git_dir(gitdir.buf,
- sub->name) < 0)
- die(_("refusing to create/use '%s' in another "
- "submodule's git dir"),
- gitdir.buf);
connect_work_tree_and_git_dir(path, gitdir.buf, 0);
strbuf_release(&gitdir);
@@ -2355,9 +2350,6 @@ static void relocate_single_git_dir_into_superproject(const char *path,
die(_("could not lookup name for submodule '%s'"), path);
submodule_name_to_gitdir(&new_gitdir, the_repository, sub->name);
- if (validate_submodule_git_dir(new_gitdir.buf, sub->name) < 0)
- die(_("refusing to move '%s' into an existing git dir"),
- real_old_git_dir);
if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(the_repository, new_gitdir.buf) < 0)
die(_("could not create directory '%s'"), new_gitdir.buf);
real_new_git_dir = real_pathdup(new_gitdir.buf, 1);
@@ -2606,4 +2598,8 @@ void submodule_name_to_gitdir(struct strbuf *buf, struct repository *r,
*/
repo_git_path_append(r, buf, "modules/");
strbuf_addstr(buf, submodule_name);
+
+ if (validate_submodule_git_dir(buf->buf, submodule_name) < 0)
+ die(_("refusing to create/use '%s' in another submodule's "
+ "git dir"), buf->buf);
}