alias: add support for aliases of an alias

Aliases can only contain non-alias git commands and their arguments,
not other user-defined aliases.  Resolving further (nested) aliases
is prevented by breaking the loop after the first alias was
processed.  Git then fails with a command-not-found error.

Allow resolving nested aliases by not breaking the loop in
run_argv() after the first alias was processed.  Instead, continue
the loop until `handle_alias()` fails, which means that there are no
further aliases that can be processed.  Prevent looping aliases by
storing substituted commands in `cmd_list` and checking if a command
has been substituted previously.

While we're at it, fix a styling issue just below the added code.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Tim Schumacher 2018-09-16 09:50:00 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 1d4361b0f3
commit c6d75bc17a

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@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
{
int done_alias = 0;
struct string_list cmd_list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
while (1) {
/*
@ -691,17 +692,25 @@ static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
/* .. then try the external ones */
execv_dashed_external(*argv);
/* It could be an alias -- this works around the insanity
if (unsorted_string_list_has_string(&cmd_list, *argv[0])) {
die(_("alias loop detected: expansion of '%s' does"
" not terminate"), cmd_list.items[0].string);
}
string_list_append(&cmd_list, *argv[0]);
/*
* It could be an alias -- this works around the insanity
* of overriding "git log" with "git show" by having
* alias.log = show
*/
if (done_alias)
break;
if (!handle_alias(argcp, argv))
break;
done_alias = 1;
}
string_list_clear(&cmd_list, 0);
return done_alias;
}