When a remote server uses git-shell, the client side will
connect to it like:
ssh server "git-upload-pack 'foo.git'"
and we literally exec ("git-upload-pack", "foo.git"). In
early versions of upload-pack and receive-pack, we took a
repository argument and nothing else. But over time they
learned to accept dashed options. If the user passes a
repository name that starts with a dash, the results are
confusing at best (we complain of a bogus option instead of
a non-existent repository) and malicious at worst (the user
can start an interactive pager via "--help").
We could pass "--" to the sub-process to make sure the
user's argument is interpreted as a branch name. I.e.:
git-upload-pack -- -foo.git
But adding "--" automatically would make us inconsistent
with a normal shell (i.e., when git-shell is not in use),
where "-foo.git" would still be an error. For that case, the
client would have to specify the "--", but they can't do so
reliably, as existing versions of git-shell do not allow
more than a single argument.
The simplest thing is to simply disallow "-" at the start of
the repo name argument. This hasn't worked either with or
without git-shell since version 1.0.0, and nobody has
complained.
Note that this patch just applies to do_generic_cmd(), which
runs upload-pack, receive-pack, and upload-archive. There
are two other types of commands that git-shell runs:
- do_cvs_cmd(), but this already restricts the argument to
be the literal string "server"
- admin-provided commands in the git-shell-commands
directory. We'll pass along arbitrary arguments there,
so these commands could have similar problems. But these
commands might actually understand dashed arguments, so
we cannot just block them here. It's up to the writer of
the commands to make sure they are safe. With great
power comes great responsibility.
Reported-by: Timo Schmid <tschmid@ernw.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase -i" failed to re-read the todo list file when the
command specified with the `exec` instruction updated it.
* sh/rebase-i-reread-todo-after-exec:
rebase -i: reread the todo list if `exec` touched it
32-bit Linux build on Travis CI uses stricter compilation options.
* ls/travis-stricter-linux32-builds:
travis-ci: set DEVELOPER knob for Linux32 build
Relaying status from Windows build by Travis CI was done with an
unsafe invocation of printf.
* ls/travis-win-fix-status:
travis-ci: printf $STATUS as string
Fix a segv in 'submodule init' when url is not given for a submodule.
* jk/submodule-init-segv-fix:
submodule_init: die cleanly on submodules without url defined
Completion for "git checkout <branch>" that auto-creates the branch
out of a remote tracking branch can now be disabled, as this
completion often gets in the way when completing to checkout an
existing local branch that happens to share the same prefix with
bunch of remote tracking branches.
* jk/complete-checkout-sans-dwim-remote:
completion: optionally disable checkout DWIM
Signed-off-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The building of the reflog message is using strbuf, which is not
friendly with internationalization frameworks. No other reflog
messages are translated right now and switching all the messages to
i18n would require a major rework of the way the messages are built.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
