From cc89331ddc92cd89012eaf7937d167b3e0beaecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victoria Dye Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 20:24:26 +0000 Subject: read-tree: explicitly disallow prefixes with a leading '/' Exit with an error if a prefix provided to `git read-tree --prefix` begins with '/'. In most cases, prefixes like this result in an "invalid path" error; however, the repository root would be interpreted as valid when specified as '--prefix=/'. This is due to leniency around trailing directory separators on prefixes (e.g., allowing both '--prefix=my-dir' and '--prefix=my-dir/') - the '/' in the prefix is actually the *trailing* slash, although it could be misinterpreted as a *leading* slash. To remove the confusing repo root-as-'/' case and make it clear that prefixes should not begin with '/', exit with an error if the first character of the provided prefix is '/'. Helped-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- builtin/read-tree.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'builtin') diff --git a/builtin/read-tree.c b/builtin/read-tree.c index 2109c4c9e5..c1a401971c 100644 --- a/builtin/read-tree.c +++ b/builtin/read-tree.c @@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *cmd_prefix) if (1 < opts.merge + opts.reset + prefix_set) die("Which one? -m, --reset, or --prefix?"); + /* Prefix should not start with a directory separator */ + if (opts.prefix && opts.prefix[0] == '/') + die("Invalid prefix, prefix cannot start with '/'"); + if (opts.reset) opts.reset = UNPACK_RESET_OVERWRITE_UNTRACKED; -- cgit v1.3