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Patrick Steinhardt
a812789c26 uploadpack.txt: document implication of uploadpackfilter.allow
When `uploadpackfilter.allow` is set to `true`, it means that filters
are enabled by default except in the case where a filter is explicitly
disabled via `uploadpackilter.<filter>.allow`. This option will not only
enable the currently supported set of filters, but also any filters
which get added in the future. As such, an admin which wants to have
tight control over which filters are allowed and which aren't probably
shouldn't ever set `uploadpackfilter.allow=true`.

Amend the documentation to make the ramifications more explicit so that
admins are aware of this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-10 23:03:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89b43f80a5 The eighth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-08 13:23:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
22eee7f455 Merge branch 'll/clone-reject-shallow'
"git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we
notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository.

* ll/clone-reject-shallow:
  builtin/clone.c: add --reject-shallow option
2021-04-08 13:23:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6b971fcf5 Merge branch 'tb/reverse-midx'
An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object
back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced.

* tb/reverse-midx:
  midx.c: improve cache locality in midx_pack_order_cmp()
  pack-revindex: write multi-pack reverse indexes
  pack-write.c: extract 'write_rev_file_order'
  pack-revindex: read multi-pack reverse indexes
  Documentation/technical: describe multi-pack reverse indexes
  midx: make some functions non-static
  midx: keep track of the checksum
  midx: don't free midx_name early
  midx: allow marking a pack as preferred
  t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add '--show-objects'
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: display usage on unrecognized command
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't enter bogus cmd_mode
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: split sub-commands
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: define common usage with a macro
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't handle 'progress' separately
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: inline 'flags' with options
2021-04-08 13:23:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0dda6023e The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-07 16:54:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3cf14f88de Merge branch 'js/security-md'
SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users
has been introduced.  Also a procedure to follow when preparing
embargoed releases has been spelled out.

* js/security-md:
  Document how we do embargoed releases
  SECURITY: describe how to report vulnerabilities
2021-04-07 16:54:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
68e15e0c23 Merge branch 'zh/commit-trailer'
"git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together
with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to
support custom trailers.

* zh/commit-trailer:
  commit: add --trailer option
2021-04-07 16:54:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2e36527f23 The sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-02 14:43:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a4394d1c1 Merge branch 'zh/format-patch-fractional-reroll-count'
"git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is
not an integer.

* zh/format-patch-fractional-reroll-count:
  format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers
2021-04-02 14:43:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
861794b60d Merge branch 'jh/simple-ipc'
A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like
fsmonitor on top.

* jh/simple-ipc:
  t0052: add simple-ipc tests and t/helper/test-simple-ipc tool
  simple-ipc: add Unix domain socket implementation
  unix-stream-server: create unix domain socket under lock
  unix-socket: disallow chdir() when creating unix domain sockets
  unix-socket: add backlog size option to unix_stream_listen()
  unix-socket: eliminate static unix_stream_socket() helper function
  simple-ipc: add win32 implementation
  simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanism
  pkt-line: add options argument to read_packetized_to_strbuf()
  pkt-line: add PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_READ_ERROR option
  pkt-line: do not issue flush packets in write_packetized_*()
  pkt-line: eliminate the need for static buffer in packet_write_gently()
2021-04-02 14:43:14 -07:00
Taylor Blau
b25fd24c00 Documentation/technical: describe multi-pack reverse indexes
As a prerequisite to implementing multi-pack bitmaps, motivate and
describe the format and ordering of the multi-pack reverse index.

The subsequent patch will implement reading this format, and the patch
after that will implement writing it while producing a multi-pack index.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-01 13:07:37 -07:00
Taylor Blau
9218c6a40c midx: allow marking a pack as preferred
When multiple packs in the multi-pack index contain the same object, the
MIDX machinery must make a choice about which pack it associates with
that object. Prior to this patch, the lowest-ordered[1] pack was always
selected.

Pack selection for duplicate objects is relatively unimportant today,
but it will become important for multi-pack bitmaps. This is because we
can only invoke the pack-reuse mechanism when all of the bits for reused
objects come from the reuse pack (in order to ensure that all reused
deltas can find their base objects in the same pack).

To encourage the pack selection process to prefer one pack over another
(the pack to be preferred is the one a caller would like to later use as
a reuse pack), introduce the concept of a "preferred pack". When
provided, the MIDX code will always prefer an object found in a
preferred pack over any other.

No format changes are required to store the preferred pack, since it
will be able to be inferred with a corresponding MIDX bitmap, by looking
up the pack associated with the object in the first bit position (this
ordering is described in detail in a subsequent commit).

[1]: the ordering is specified by MIDX internals; for our purposes we
can consider the "lowest ordered" pack to be "the one with the
most-recent mtime.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-01 13:07:37 -07:00
Li Linchao
4fe788b1b0 builtin/clone.c: add --reject-shallow option
In some scenarios, users may want more history than the repository
offered for cloning, which happens to be a shallow repository, can
give them. But because users don't know it is a shallow repository
until they download it to local, we may want to refuse to clone
this kind of repository, without creating any unnecessary files.

The '--depth=x' option cannot be used as a solution; the source may
be deep enough to give us 'x' commits when cloned, but the user may
later need to deepen the history to arbitrary depth.

Teach '--reject-shallow' option to "git clone" to abort as soon as
we find out that we are cloning from a shallow repository.

Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <lilinchao@oschina.cn>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-01 12:58:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a65ce7f831 The fifth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-30 14:35:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5c2f7ff018 Merge branch 'jc/doc-format-patch-clarify'
Explain pieces of the format-patch output upfront before the rest
of the documentation starts referring to them.

* jc/doc-format-patch-clarify:
  format-patch: give an overview of what a "patch" message is
2021-03-30 14:35:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dc2a073036 Merge branch 'ab/remove-rebase-usebuiltin'
Remove the final hint that we used to have a scripted "git rebase".

* ab/remove-rebase-usebuiltin:
  rebase: remove transitory rebase.useBuiltin setting & env
2021-03-30 14:35:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
09420b7648 Document how we do embargoed releases
Whenever we fix critical vulnerabilities, we follow some sort of
protocol (e.g. setting a coordinated release date, keeping the fix under
embargo until that time, coordinating with packagers and/or hosting
sites, etc).

Similar in spirit to `Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt`, let's
formalize the details in a document.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-27 15:13:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
84d06cdc06 Git 2.31.1
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Sync with v2.31.1
2021-03-26 14:59:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
26c4f98ffd The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-26 14:59:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89519f662c Merge branch 'cm/rebase-i-fixup-amend-reword'
"git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes made
to the contents while keeping the original log message intact,
learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be used to
tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message,
respectively.

* cm/rebase-i-fixup-amend-reword:
  doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options
  t3437: use --fixup with options to create amend! commit
  t7500: add tests for --fixup=[amend|reword] options
  commit: add a reword suboption to --fixup
  commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit
  sequencer: export and rename subject_length()
2021-03-26 14:59:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fde07fc356 Merge branch 'cm/rebase-i-updates'
Follow-up fixes to "cm/rebase-i" topic.

* cm/rebase-i-updates:
  doc/rebase -i: fix typo in the documentation of 'fixup' command
  t/t3437: fixup the test 'multiple fixup -c opens editor once'
  t/t3437: use named commits in the tests
  t/t3437: simplify and document the test helpers
  t/t3437: check the author date of fixed up commit
  t/t3437: remove the dependency of 'expected-message' file from tests
  t/t3437: fixup here-docs in the 'setup' test
  t/lib-rebase: update the documentation of FAKE_LINES
  rebase -i: clarify and fix 'fixup -c' rebase-todo help
  sequencer: rename a few functions
  sequencer: fixup the datatype of the 'flag' argument
2021-03-26 14:59:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ce4296cf2b Merge branch 'cm/rebase-i'
"rebase -i" is getting cleaned up and also enhanced.

* cm/rebase-i:
  doc/git-rebase: add documentation for fixup [-C|-c] options
  rebase -i: teach --autosquash to work with amend!
  t3437: test script for fixup [-C|-c] options in interactive rebase
  rebase -i: add fixup [-C | -c] command
  sequencer: use const variable for commit message comments
  sequencer: pass todo_item to do_pick_commit()
  rebase -i: comment out squash!/fixup! subjects from squash message
  sequencer: factor out code to append squash message
  rebase -i: only write fixup-message when it's needed
2021-03-26 14:59:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
48bf2fa8ba Git 2.31.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-26 14:49:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9198c13e34 The third patch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-24 14:36:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2744383cbd Merge branch 'tb/geometric-repack'
"git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything
under the sun into a single pack (or split by size).  A cleverer
strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been
introduced.

* tb/geometric-repack:
  builtin/pack-objects.c: ignore missing links with --stdin-packs
  builtin/repack.c: reword comment around pack-objects flags
  builtin/repack.c: be more conservative with unsigned overflows
  builtin/repack.c: assign pack split later
  t7703: test --geometric repack with loose objects
  builtin/repack.c: do not repack single packs with --geometric
  builtin/repack.c: add '--geometric' option
  packfile: add kept-pack cache for find_kept_pack_entry()
  builtin/pack-objects.c: rewrite honor-pack-keep logic
  p5303: measure time to repack with keep
  p5303: add missing &&-chains
  builtin/pack-objects.c: add '--stdin-packs' option
  revision: learn '--no-kept-objects'
  packfile: introduce 'find_kept_pack_entry()'
2021-03-24 14:36:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c6617d1e4f Merge branch 'tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config'
Doc update.

* tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config:
  Documentation/git-push.txt: correct configuration typo
2021-03-24 14:36:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
28e29ee38b format-patch: give an overview of what a "patch" message is
The text says something called a "patch" is prepared one for each
commit, it is suitable for e-mail submission, and "am" is the
command to use it, but does not say what the "patch" really is.

The description in the page also refers to the "three-dash" line,
but it is unclear what it is, unless the reader is given a more
detailed overview of what the "patch" is.

Add a brief paragraph to give an overview of what the output looks
like.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-24 12:14:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
9bcde4d531 rebase: remove transitory rebase.useBuiltin setting & env
Remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting and the now-obsolete
GIT_TEST_REBASE_USE_BUILTIN test flag.

This was left in place after my d03ebd411c (rebase: remove the
rebase.useBuiltin setting, 2019-03-18) to help anyone who'd used the
experimental flag and wanted to know that it was the default, or that
they should transition their test environment to use the builtin
rebase unconditionally.

It's been more than long enough for those users to get a headsup about
this. So remove all the scaffolding that was left inplace after
d03ebd411c. I'm also removing the documentation entry, if anyone
still has this left in their configuration they can do some source
archaeology to figure out what it used to do, which makes more sense
than exposing every git user reading the documentation to this legacy
configuration switch.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-23 14:05:58 -07:00
ZheNing Hu
db91988aa1 format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers
The `-v<n>` option of `format-patch` can give nothing but an
integral iteration number to patches in a series.  Some people,
however, prefer to mark a new iteration with only a small fixup
with a non integral iteration number (e.g. an "oops, that was
wrong" fix-up patch for v4 iteration may be labeled as "v4.1").

Allow `format-patch` to take such a non-integral iteration
number.

`<n>` can be any string, such as '3.1' or '4rev2'. In the case
where it is a non-integral value, the "Range-diff" and "Interdiff"
headers will not include the previous version.

Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-23 12:49:47 -07:00
ZheNing Hu
2daae3d1d1 commit: add --trailer option
Historically, Git has supported the 'Signed-off-by' commit trailer
using the '--signoff' and the '-s' option from the command line.
But users may need to provide other trailer information from the
command line such as "Helped-by", "Reported-by", "Mentored-by",

Now implement a new `--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>]` option to pass
other trailers to `interpret-trailers` and insert them into commit
messages.

Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-23 10:31:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1424303384 The second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-22 14:00:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
20adca9006 Merge branch 'ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc'
Doc update.

* ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc:
  githooks.txt: clarify documentation on reference-transaction hook
  githooks.txt: replace mentions of SHA-1 specific properties
2021-03-22 14:00:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3d92c0a784 Merge branch 'jr/doc-ignore-typofix'
Doc cleanup.

* jr/doc-ignore-typofix:
  doc: .gitignore documentation typofix
2021-03-22 14:00:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c83d602ad2 Merge branch 'dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup'
Doc cleanup.

* dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup:
  git-cat-file.txt: remove references to "sha1"
  git-cat-file.txt: monospace args, placeholders and filenames
2021-03-22 14:00:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
25f9326561 Merge branch 'rs/pretty-describe'
"git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder.

* rs/pretty-describe:
  archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archive
  pretty: document multiple %(describe) being inconsistent
  t4205: assert %(describe) test coverage
  pretty: add merge and exclude options to %(describe)
  pretty: add %(describe)
2021-03-22 14:00:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f5c73f69fd Merge branch 'dl/stash-show-untracked'
"git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the
stash.

* dl/stash-show-untracked:
  stash show: learn stash.showIncludeUntracked
  stash show: teach --include-untracked and --only-untracked
2021-03-22 14:00:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd4048d1c7 Merge branch 'en/ort-perf-batch-8'
Rename detection rework continues.

* en/ort-perf-batch-8:
  diffcore-rename: compute dir_rename_guess from dir_rename_counts
  diffcore-rename: limit dir_rename_counts computation to relevant dirs
  diffcore-rename: compute dir_rename_counts in stages
  diffcore-rename: extend cleanup_dir_rename_info()
  diffcore-rename: move dir_rename_counts into dir_rename_info struct
  diffcore-rename: add function for clearing dir_rename_count
  Move computation of dir_rename_count from merge-ort to diffcore-rename
  diffcore-rename: add a mapping of destination names to their indices
  diffcore-rename: provide basic implementation of idx_possible_rename()
  diffcore-rename: use directory rename guided basename comparisons
2021-03-22 14:00:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d20fa3cf9d Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-generation-config'
A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing
which version of the generation number gets used in the
commit-graph file.

* ds/commit-graph-generation-config:
  commit-graph: use config to specify generation type
  commit-graph: create local repository pointer
2021-03-22 14:00:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98164e9585 The first batch in 2.32 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-19 15:25:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
948e8ac534 Merge branch 'km/config-doc-typofix'
Docfix.

* km/config-doc-typofix:
  config.txt: add missing period
2021-03-19 15:25:38 -07:00
Kyle Meyer
cfd409ed09 config.txt: add missing period
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-17 11:25:15 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
066d5234d0 simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanism
Brief design documentation for new IPC mechanism allowing
foreground Git client to talk with an existing daemon process
at a known location using a named pipe or unix domain socket.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-15 14:32:50 -07:00
Charvi Mendiratta
00ea64ed7a doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Mentored-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-15 14:29:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8775279891 Merge branch 'jn/mergetool-hideresolved-is-optional'
Disable the recent mergetool's hideresolved feature by default for
backward compatibility and safety.

* jn/mergetool-hideresolved-is-optional:
  doc: describe mergetool configuration in git-mergetool(1)
  mergetool: do not enable hideResolved by default
2021-03-14 16:01:41 -07:00
Taylor Blau
4c8e3dca6e Documentation/git-push.txt: correct configuration typo
In the EXAMPLES section, git-push(1) says that 'git push origin' pushes
the current branch to the value of the 'remote.origin.merge'
configuration.

This wording (which dates back to b2ed944af7 (push: switch default from
"matching" to "simple", 2013-01-04)) is incorrect. There is no such
configuration as 'remote.<name>.merge'. This likely was originally
intended to read "branch.<name>.merge" instead.

Indeed, when 'push.default' is 'simple' (which is the default value, and
is applicable in this scenario per "without additional configuration"),
setup_push_upstream() dies if the branch's local name does not match
'branch.<name>.merge'.

Correct this long-standing typo to resolve some recent confusion on the
intended behavior of this example.

Reported-by: Adam Sharafeddine <adam.shrfdn@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fabien Terrani <terranifabien@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-13 15:41:45 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
53204061ac doc: describe mergetool configuration in git-mergetool(1)
In particular, this describes mergetool.hideResolved, which can help
users discover this setting (either because it may be useful to them
or in order to understand mergetool's behavior if they have forgotten
setting it in the past).

Tested by running

	make -C Documentation git-mergetool.1
	man Documentation/git-mergetool.1

and reading through the page.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-13 15:34:32 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
b2a51c1b03 mergetool: do not enable hideResolved by default
When 98ea309b3f (mergetool: add hideResolved configuration,
2021-02-09) introduced the mergetool.hideResolved setting to reduce
the clutter in viewing non-conflicted sections of files in a
mergetool, it enabled it by default, explaining:

    No adverse effects were noted in a small survey of popular mergetools[1]
    so this behavior defaults to `true`.

In practice, alas, adverse effects do appear.  A few issues:

1. No indication is shown in the UI that the base, local, and remote
   versions shown have been modified by additional resolution.  This
   is inherent in the design: the idea of mergetool.hideResolved is to
   convince a mergetool that expects pristine local, base, and remote
   files to show partially resolved verisons of those files instead;
   there is no additional source of information accessible to the
   mergetool to see where the resolution has happened.

   (By contrast, a mergetool generating the partial resolution from
   conflict markers for itself would be able to hilight the resolved
   sections with a different color.)

   A user accustomed to seeing the files without partial resolution
   gets no indication that this behavior has changed when they upgrade
   Git.

2. If the computed merge did not line up the files correctly (for
   example due to repeated sections in the file), the partially
   resolved files can be misleading and do not have enough information
   to reconstruct what happened and compute the correct merge result.

3. Resolving a conflict can involve information beyond the textual
   conflict.  For example, if the local and remote versions added
   overlapping functionality in different ways, seeing the full
   unresolved versions of each alongside the base gives information
   about each side's intent that makes it possible to come up with a
   resolution that combines those two intents.  By contrast, when
   starting with partially resolved versions of those files, one can
   produce a subtly wrong resolution that includes redundant extra
   code added by one side that is not needed in the approach taken
   on the other.

All that said, a user wanting to focus on textual conflicts with
reduced clutter can still benefit from mergetool.hideResolved=true as
a way to deemphasize sections of the code that resolve cleanly without
requiring any changes to the invoked mergetool.  The caveats described
above are reduced when the user has explicitly turned this on, because
then the user is aware of them.

Flip the default to 'false'.

Reported-by: Dana Dahlstrom <dahlstrom@google.com>
Helped-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-13 15:30:29 -08:00
René Scharfe
96099726dd archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archive
Every %(describe) placeholder in $Format:...$ strings in files with the
attribute export-subst is expanded by calling git describe.  This can
potentially result in a lot of such calls per archive.  That's OK for
local repositories under control of the user of git archive, but could
be a problem for hosted repositories.

Expand only a single %(describe) placeholder per archive for now to
avoid denial-of-service attacks.  We can make this limit configurable
later if needed, but let's start out simple.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-11 13:22:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
13d7ab6b5d Git 2.31-rc2 2021-03-08 16:09:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56a57652ef Sync with Git 2.30.2 for CVE-2021-21300
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-08 16:09:07 -08:00