Re: BUG: submodule code prints '(null)'

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:04 AM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:31:41PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > I do not know how to reproduce this (and didn't bother to look deeply
> > into it after I found it was not a trivial fix) but one of my "git
> > fetch" showed
> >
> > warning: Submodule in commit be2db96a6c506464525f588da59cade0cedddb5e
> > at path: '(null)' collides with a submodule named the same. Skipping
> > it.
>
> The problem is default_name_or_path() can return NULL when a submodule
> is not populated. The fix could simply be printing path instead of
> name (because we are talking about path in the commit message), like
> below.
>
> But I don't really understand c68f837576 (implement fetching of moved
> submodules - 2017-10-16), the commit that made this change, and not
> sure if we should be reporting name here or path. Heiko?
>
> diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
> index 939d6870ec..61c2177755 100644
> --- a/submodule.c
> +++ b/submodule.c
> @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ static void collect_changed_submodules_cb(struct diff_queue_struct *q,

[Not in the context of this patch, but in the code right before the
context starts:]

            name = default_name_or_path(p->two->path);
            /* make sure name does not collide with existing one */
            submodule = submodule_from_name(the_repository, commit_oid, name);
            if (submodule) {

Currently I see 4 callers of default_name_or_path and the other 3 except this
one have checks against NULL in place, which is good.
However I think we have to guard this even more, and have to check
for !name before we call submodule_from_name.

It is technically ok to call submodule_from_name with a NULL name,
but it is semantically broken, see the comment in config_from that
is called from submodule_from_name:

    /*
     * If any parameter except the cache is a NULL pointer just
     * return the first submodule. Can be used to check whether
     * there are any submodules parsed.
     */
    if (!treeish_name || !key) {
        ...


>                                 warning("Submodule in commit %s at path: "
>                                         "'%s' collides with a submodule named "
>                                         "the same. Skipping it.",
> -                                       oid_to_hex(commit_oid), name);
> +                                       oid_to_hex(commit_oid), p->two->path);

This is correct for the error message, both in terms of not crashing as well
as correctness, we really need to report a *path* here and no the name_or_path,
which  default_name_or_path gives.