From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>,
Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
Nikita Leonov <nykyta.leonov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] credentials: make line reading Windows compatible
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:44:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929004448.GD898702@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwo0difdh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:41:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I think that:
> >
> > - we'd never write a raw CR ourselves, as we'd urlencode the character
> >
> > - if somebody did put in a raw CR manually like:
> >
> > https://example.com\r\n
> >
> > then we'd currently fail to match "example.com". Which is probably
> > not what they wanted. I suspect that \r in a hostname is bogus
> > anyway (certainly curl will complain about it).
>
> I may be misremembering, but an argument I recall against the kind
> of change we are dicussing now was that we ignore such an entry
> right now, and the user may have added an entry for the host anew,
> possibly with a more recent password. Changing the parsing to
> ignore CR would silently resurrect such a stale entry that the user
> has written off as unused, and depending on the order of entries in
> the file, a site that used to work may start failing suddenly.
Yeah, that is probably what would happen. I have to admit that it's such
an obscure case that I'm not sure I really care. It's unlikely in
practice, and if somebody did report such a case, I think my first
response would be "well, why did you have a broken entry stuck in your
file?".
> I still don't see why we need to touch the cache-daemon, though.
Yeah, I touched on that more in another response.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-29 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 13:49 [PATCH] credential.c: fix credential reading with regards to CR/LF Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-02-14 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-14 18:32 ` Jeff King
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Prepare git credential to read input with DOS line endings Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] credential.c: fix credential reading with regards to CR/LF Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-29 0:42 ` Jeff King
2020-10-02 11:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-02 12:01 ` Jeff King
2020-10-02 12:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-02 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] credentials: make line reading Windows compatible Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:35 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 7:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-28 23:26 ` Carlo Arenas
2020-09-28 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:30 ` Jeff King
2020-09-29 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:44 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-09-29 0:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 3:00 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-30 22:39 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 13:54 ` Jeff King
2020-10-01 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 8:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: make notes regarding credential line reading Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Prepare git credential to read input with DOS line endings Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 13:29 ` [PATCH v3] credential: treat CR/LF as line endings in the credential protocol Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
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