The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
* pc/submodule-helper-foreach:
submodule: port submodule subcommand 'foreach' from shell to C
submodule foreach: document variable '$displaypath'
submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path'
submodule foreach: correct '$path' in nested submodules from a subdirectory
"git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch"
against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the
submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind
(i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one
(i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective.
This has been corrected.
* sb/submodule-update-try-harder:
git-submodule.sh: try harder to fetch a submodule
"git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the
"--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local
repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent
invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught
to take the "--progress" option.
* cf/submodule-progress-dissociate:
submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands
submodule: add --progress option to add command
submodule: clean up substitutions in script
* maint-2.16:
Git 2.16.4
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.15:
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.13:
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file,
but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our
on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by
putting "../" into the name (among other things).
Let's sanity-check these names to avoid building a path that
can be exploited. There are two main decisions:
1. What should the allowed syntax be?
It's tempting to reuse verify_path(), since submodule
names typically come from in-repo paths. But there are
two reasons not to:
a. It's technically more strict than what we need, as
we really care only about breaking out of the
$GIT_DIR/modules/ hierarchy. E.g., having a
submodule named "foo/.git" isn't actually
dangerous, and it's possible that somebody has
manually given such a funny name.
b. Since we'll eventually use this checking logic in
fsck to prevent downstream repositories, it should
be consistent across platforms. Because
verify_path() relies on is_dir_sep(), it wouldn't
block "foo\..\bar" on a non-Windows machine.
2. Where should we enforce it? These days most of the
.gitmodules reads go through submodule-config.c, so
I've put it there in the reading step. That should
cover all of the C code.
We also construct the name for "git submodule add"
inside the git-submodule.sh script. This is probably
not a big deal for security since the name is coming
from the user anyway, but it would be polite to remind
them if the name they pick is invalid (and we need to
expose the name-checker to the shell anyway for our
test scripts).
This patch issues a warning when reading .gitmodules
and just ignores the related config entry completely.
This will generally end up producing a sensible error,
as it works the same as a .gitmodules file which is
missing a submodule entry (so "submodule update" will
barf, but "git clone --recurse-submodules" will print
an error but not abort the clone.
There is one minor oddity, which is that we print the
warning once per malformed config key (since that's how
the config subsystem gives us the entries). So in the
new test, for example, the user would see three
warnings. That's OK, since the intent is that this case
should never come up outside of malicious repositories
(and then it might even benefit the user to see the
message multiple times).
Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of
concept from which the test script was adapted goes to
Etienne Stalmans.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Add --dissociate option to add and update commands, both clone helper commands
that already have the --reference option --dissociate pairs with.
Signed-off-by: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '--progress' was introduced in 72c5f88311 (clone: pass --progress
decision to recursive submodules, 2016-09-22) to fix the progress reporting
of the clone command. Also add the progress option to the 'submodule add'
command. The update command already supports the progress flag, but it
is not documented.
Signed-off-by: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'recommend_shallow' and 'jobs' variables do not need quotes. They only hold a
single token value, and even if they were multi-token it is likely we would want
them split at IFS rather than pass a single string.
'progress' is a boolean value. Treat it like the other boolean values in the
script by using a substitution.
Signed-off-by: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the logical continuum of fb43e31f2b (submodule: try harder to
fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1, 2016-02-23) and fixes it as
some assumptions were not correct.
The commit states:
> If $sha1 was not part of the default fetch ... fail ourselves here
> assumes that the fetch_in_submodule only fails when the serverside does
> not support fetching by sha1.
There are other failures, why such a fetch may fail, such as
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD
which can happen if the remote side doesn't advertise HEAD and we do not
have a local fetch refspec.
Not advertising HEAD is allowed by the protocol spec and would happen,
if HEAD points at an unborn branch for example.
Not having a local fetch refspec can happen when submodules are fetched
shallowly, as then git-clone doesn't setup a fetch refspec.
So do try even harder for a submodule by ignoring the exit code of the
first fetch and rather relying on the following is_tip_reachable to
see if we try fetching again.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This aims to make git-submodule foreach a builtin. 'foreach' is ported to
the submodule--helper, and submodule--helper is called from
git-submodule.sh.
Helped-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git submodule foreach --recursive' from a subdirectory of
your repository, nested submodules get a bogus value for $path:
For a submodule 'sub' that contains a nested submodule 'nested',
running 'git -C dir submodule foreach echo $path' from the root of the
superproject would report path='../nested' for the nested submodule.
The first part '../' is derived from the logic computing the relative
path from $pwd to the root of the superproject. The second part is the
submodule path inside the submodule. This value is of little use and is
hard to document.
Also, in git-submodule.txt, $path is documented to be the "name of the
submodule directory relative to the superproject", but "the
superproject" is ambiguous.
To resolve both these issues, we could:
(a) Change "the superproject" to "its immediate superproject", so
$path would be "nested" instead of "../nested".
(b) Change "the superproject" to "the superproject the original
command was run from", so $path would be "sub/nested" instead of
"../nested".
(c) Change "the superproject" to "the directory the original command
was run from", so $path would be "../sub/nested" instead of
"../nested".
The behavior for (c) was attempted to be introduced in 091a6eb0fe
(submodule: drop the top-level requirement, 2013-06-16) with the intent
for $path to be relative from $pwd to the submodule worktree, but that
did not work for nested submodules, as the intermittent submodules
were not included in the path.
If we were to fix the meaning of the $path using (a), we would break
any existing submodule user that runs foreach from non-root of the
superproject as the non-nested submodule '../sub' would change its
path to 'sub'.
If we were to fix the meaning of $path using (b), then we would break
any user that uses nested submodules (even from the root directory)
as the 'nested' would become 'sub/nested'.
If we were to fix the meaning of $path using (c), then we would break
the same users as in (b) as 'nested' would become 'sub/nested' from
the root directory of the superproject.
All groups can be found in the wild. The author has no data if one group
outweighs the other by large margin, and offending each one seems equally
bad at first. However in the authors imagination it is better to go with
(a) as running from a sub directory sounds like it is carried out by a
human rather than by some automation task. With a human on the keyboard
the feedback loop is short and the changed behavior can be adapted to
quickly unlike some automation that can break silently.
Discussed-with: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The same mechanism is used even for porting this submodule
subcommand, as used in the ported subcommands till now.
The function cmd_deinit in split up after porting into four
functions: module_deinit(), for_each_listed_submodule(),
deinit_submodule() and deinit_submodule_cb().
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Port the submodule subcommand 'sync' from shell to C using the same
mechanism as that used for porting submodule subcommand 'status'.
Hence, here the function cmd_sync() is ported from shell to C.
This is done by introducing four functions: module_sync(),
sync_submodule(), sync_submodule_cb() and print_default_remote().
The function print_default_remote() is introduced for getting
the default remote as stdout.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This aims to make git-submodule 'status' a built-in. Hence, the function
cmd_status() is ported from shell to C. This is done by introducing
four functions: module_status(), submodule_status_cb(),
submodule_status() and print_status().
The function module_status() acts as the front-end of the subcommand.
It parses subcommand's options and then calls the function
module_list_compute() for computing the list of submodules. Then
this functions calls for_each_listed_submodule() looping through the
list obtained.
Then for_each_listed_submodule() calls submodule_status_cb() for each of
the submodule in its list. The function submodule_status_cb() calls
submodule_status() after passing appropriate arguments to the funciton.
Function submodule_status() is responsible for generating the status
each submodule it is called for, and then calls print_status().
Finally, the function print_status() handles the printing of submodule's
status.
Function set_name_rev() is also ported from git-submodule to the
submodule--helper builtin function compute_rev_name(), which now
generates the value of the revision name as required.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This could have been part of 48308681b0 (git submodule update: have a
dedicated helper for cloning, 2016-02-29).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want to make sure that people who copy & paste code would see
fewer instances of "git-foo". The use of these dashed forms have
been discouraged since v1.6.0 days.
Signed-off-by: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another
repository, like:
git clone $url
git add .
The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching
.gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone
with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to
v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely.
In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly
ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do
anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually
adding the submodule config.
In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real
submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in
their .gitignore file.
Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few
things to note:
- the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody
wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is
welcome to create whatever funny states they want.
- we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink;
updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable,
and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules
entirely
- there's a command-line option to suppress the warning.
This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the
entry before adding any submodule config), but also
provides a mechanism for other scripts doing
submodule-like things.
We could make this a hard error instead of a warning.
However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's
not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users
may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with
a gentle hint is probably the best option.
There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But
I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning
entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is
generally about context, not about the user's preferences.
If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without
matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the
new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When attempting to add a submodule with backslashes in its name 'git
submodule' fails in a funny way. We can see that some of the
backslashes are expanded resulting in a bogus path:
git -C main submodule add ../sub\\with\\backslash
fatal: repository '/tmp/test/sub\witackslash' does not exist
fatal: clone of '/tmp/test/sub\witackslash' into submodule path
To solve this, convert calls to 'read' to 'read -r' in git-submodule.sh
in order to prevent backslash expantion in submodule names.
Reported-by: Joachim Durchholz <jo@durchholz.org>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to adding submodule.<name>.url to the config, set
submodule.<name>.active to true unless submodule.active is configured
and the submodule's path matches the configured pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sync does some work determining what URLs should be used for a submodule
but then throws this work away if the submodule isn't active. Instead
perform the activity check earlier and skip inactive submodule in order
to avoid doing unnecessary work.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The user can specify a custom update method that is run when
"submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This
was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and
we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the
path in the superproject's index.
* sb/submodule-update-initial-runs-custom-script:
submodule update: run custom update script for initial populating as well
"git submodule add" used to be confused and refused to add a
locally created repository; users can now use "--force" option
to add them.
* sb/submodule-add-force:
submodule add: extend force flag to add existing repos
In 1b4735d9f3 (submodule: no [--merge|--rebase] when newly cloned,
2011-02-17), all actions were defaulted to checkout for populating
a submodule initially, because merging or rebasing makes no sense
in that situation.
Other commands however do make sense, such as the custom command
that was added later (6cb5728c43, submodule update: allow custom
command to update submodule working tree, 2013-07-03).
I am unsure about the "none" command, as I can see an initial
checkout there as a useful thing. On the other hand going strictly
by our own documentation, we should do nothing in case of "none"
as well, because the user asked for it.
Reported-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the submodule helper we did not correctly handled the display path
for initializing submodules when both the submodule is inside a
subdirectory as well as the command being invoked from a subdirectory
(as viewed from the superproject).
This was broken in 3604242f08, which was written at a time where
there was no super-prefix available, so we abused the --prefix option
for the same purpose and could get only one case right (the call from
within a subdirectory, not the submodule being in a subdirectory).
Test-provided-by: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This part was missing in f6f85861 (submodule: add absorb-git-dir function,
2016-12-12).
Noticed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
* sb/submodule-embed-gitdir:
worktree: initialize return value for submodule_uses_worktrees
submodule: add absorb-git-dir function
move connect_work_tree_and_git_dir to dir.h
worktree: check if a submodule uses worktrees
test-lib-functions.sh: teach test_commit -C <dir>
submodule helper: support super prefix
submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting
Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
mechanism.
* bw/transport-protocol-policy:
http: respect protocol.*.allow=user for http-alternates
transport: add from_user parameter to is_transport_allowed
http: create function to get curl allowed protocols
transport: add protocol policy config option
http: always warn if libcurl version is too old
lib-proto-disable: variable name fix
Previously the `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL` environment variable was used to
specify a whitelist of protocols to be used in clone/fetch/push
commands. This patch introduces new configuration options for more
fine-grained control for allowing/disallowing protocols. This also has
the added benefit of allowing easier construction of a protocol
whitelist on systems where setting an environment variable is
non-trivial.
Now users can specify a policy to be used for each type of protocol via
the 'protocol.<name>.allow' config option. A default policy for all
unconfigured protocols can be set with the 'protocol.allow' config
option. If no user configured default is made git will allow known-safe
protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file), disallow known-dangerous
protocols (ext), and have a default policy of `user` for all other
protocols.
The supported policies are `always`, `never`, and `user`. The `user`
policy can be used to configure a protocol to be usable when explicitly
used by a user, while disallowing it for commands which run
clone/fetch/push commands without direct user intervention (e.g.
recursive initialization of submodules). Commands which can potentially
clone/fetch/push from untrusted repositories without user intervention
can export `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` with a value of '0' to prevent
protocols configured to the `user` policy from being used.
Fix remote-ext tests to use the new config to allow the ext
protocol to be tested.
Based on a patch by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a submodule has its git dir inside the working dir, the submodule
support for checkout that we plan to add in a later patch will fail.
Add functionality to migrate the git directory to be absorbed
into the superprojects git directory.
The newly added code in this patch is structured such that other areas of
Git can also make use of it. The code in the submodule--helper is a mere
wrapper and option parser for the function
`absorb_git_dir_into_superproject`, that takes care of embedding the
submodules git directory into the superprojects git dir. That function
makes use of the more abstract function for this use case
`relocate_gitdir`, which can be used by e.g. the worktree code eventually
to move around a git directory.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the force flag in `git submodule add` takes care of possibly
ignored files or when a name collision occurs.
However there is another situation where submodule add comes in handy:
When you already have a gitlink recorded, but no configuration was
done (i.e. no .gitmodules file nor any entry in .git/config) and you
want to generate these config entries. For this situation allow
`git submodule add` to proceed if there is already a submodule at the
given path in the index.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning with "--recursive", we'd generally expect
submodules to show progress reports if the main clone did,
too.
In older versions of git, this mostly worked out of the
box. Since we show progress by default when stderr is a tty,
and since the child clones inherit the parent stderr, then
both processes would come to the same decision by default.
If the parent clone was asked for "--quiet", we passed down
"--quiet" to the child. However, if stderr was not a tty and
the user specified "--progress", we did not propagate this
to the child.
That's a minor bug, but things got much worse when we
switched recently to submodule--helper's update_clone
command. With that change, the stderr of the child clones
are always connected to a pipe, and we never output
progress at all.
This patch teaches git-submodule and git-submodule--helper
how to pass down an explicit "--progress" flag when cloning.
The clone command then decides to propagate that flag based
on the cloning decision made earlier (which takes into
account isatty(2) of the parent process, existing --progress
or --quiet flags, etc). Since the child processes always run
without a tty on stderr, we don't have to worry about
passing an explicit "--no-progress"; it's the default for
them.
This fixes the recent loss of progress during recursive
clones. And as a bonus, it makes:
git clone --recursive --progress ... 2>&1 | cat
work by triggering progress explicitly in the children.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to
reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing
$path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it
learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
* sb/submodule-clone-rr:
clone: recursive and reference option triggers submodule alternates
clone: implement optional references
clone: clarify option_reference as required
clone: factor out checking for an alternate path
submodule--helper update-clone: allow multiple references
submodule--helper module-clone: allow multiple references
t7408: merge short tests, factor out testing method
t7408: modernize style
Allow the user to pass in multiple references to update_clone.
Currently this is only internal API, but once the shell script is
replaced by a C version, this is needed.
This fixes an API bug between the shell script and the helper.
Currently the helper accepts "--reference" "--reference=foo"
as a OPT_STRING whose value happens to be "--reference=foo", and
then uses
if (suc->reference)
argv_array_push(&child->args, suc->reference)
where suc->reference _is_ "--reference=foo" when invoking the
underlying "git clone", it cancels out.
With this change we omit one of the "--reference" arguments when
passing references from the shell script to the helper.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few updates to "git submodule update".
Use of "| wc -l" break with BSD variant of 'wc'.
* sb/submodule-update-dot-branch:
t7406: fix breakage on OSX
submodule update: allow '.' for branch value
submodule--helper: add remote-branch helper
submodule-config: keep configured branch around
submodule--helper: fix usage string for relative-path
submodule update: narrow scope of local variable
submodule update: respect depth in subsequent fetches
t7406: future proof tests with hard coded depth
An earlier tweak to make "submodule update" retry a failing clone
of submodules was buggy and caused segfault, which has been fixed.
* sb/submodule-clone-retry:
submodule-helper: fix indexing in clone retry error reporting path
git-submodule: forward exit code of git-submodule--helper more faithfully
In a later patch we want to enhance the logic for the branch selection.
Rewrite the current logic to be in C, so we can directly use C when
we enhance the logic.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When depth is given the user may have a reasonable expectation that
any remote operation is using the given depth. Add a test to demonstrate
we still get the desired sha1 even if the depth is too short to
include the actual commit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-submodule--helper is invoked as the upstream of a pipe in several
places. Usually, the failure of a program in this position is not
detected by the shell. For this reason, the code inserts a token in the
output stream when git-submodule--helper fails that is detected
downstream, where the shell script is quit with exit code 1.
There happens to be a bug in git-submodule--helper that leads to a
segmentation fault. The test suite triggers the crash in several places,
all of which are protected by 'test_must_fail'. But due to the inspecific
exit code 1, the crash remains undiagnosed.
Extend the failure protocol such that git-submodule--helper's exit code
is passed downstream (only in the case of failure). This enables the
downstream to use it as its own exit code, and 'test_must_fail' to
identify the segmentation fault as an unexpected failure.
The bug itself is fixed in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>