git-commit-vandalism/contrib/scalar
Victoria Dye 65f6a9eb0b scalar: constrain enlistment search
Make the search for repository and enlistment root in
'setup_enlistment_directory()' more constrained to simplify behavior and
adhere to 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'.

Previously, 'setup_enlistment_directory()' would check whether the provided
path (or current working directory) '<dir>' or its subdirectory '<dir>/src'
was a repository root. If not, the process would repeat on the parent of
'<dir>' until the repository was found or it reached the root of the
filesystem. This meant that a user could specify a path *anywhere* inside an
enlistment (including paths not in the repository contained within the
enlistment) and it would be found.

The downside to this process is that the search would not account for
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES', so the upward search could result in modifying
repository contents past 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'. Similarly, operations
like 'scalar delete' could end up unintentionally deleting the parent of a
repo if its root was named 'src'.

To make this 'setup_enlistment_directory()' both adhere to
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES' and avoid unwanted deletions, the search for an
enlistment directory is simplified to:

- if '<dir>/src' is a repository root, '<dir>' is the enlistment root
- if '<dir>' is either the repository root or contained within a repository,
  the repository root is the enlistment root

Now, only 'setup_git_directory()' (called by 'setup_enlistment_directory()')
searches upwards from the 'scalar' specified path, enforcing
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES' in the process. Additionally, 'scalar delete
<dir>/src' will not delete '<dir>' (if users would like to delete it, they
can still specify the enlistment root with 'scalar delete <dir>'). This is
true of any 'scalar' operation; users can invoke 'scalar' on the enlistment
root, but paths must otherwise be inside the repository to be valid.

To help clarify the updated behavior, new tests are added to
't9099-scalar.sh'.

Finally, this change leaves 'strbuf_parent_directory()' with only a single,
WIN32-specific caller in 'delete_enlistment()'. Rather than wrap
'strbuf_parent_directory()' in '#ifdef WIN32' to avoid the "unused function"
compiler error, move the contents of 'strbuf_parent_directory()' into
'delete_enlistment()' and remove the function.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:31 -07:00
..
t scalar: constrain enlistment search 2022-08-18 21:35:31 -07:00
.gitignore scalar: create a rudimentary executable 2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Makefile contrib/scalar: fix 'all' target in Makefile 2022-04-06 10:19:57 -07:00
scalar.c scalar: constrain enlistment search 2022-08-18 21:35:31 -07:00
scalar.txt scalar: reword command documentation to clarify purpose 2022-07-18 11:03:56 -07:00