From c6d75bc17a045af8cadd2dce982f5737a5ca38bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Schumacher Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:50:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index c27c38738b..15727c17f1 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -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; }