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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Glen Choo via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object-file: use real paths when adding alternates
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:54:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3atneCCAA4fMFKL@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1382.git.git.1668706274099.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 05:31:13PM +0000, Glen Choo via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
>
> When adding an alternate ODB, we check if the alternate has the same
> path as the object dir, and if so, we do nothing. However, that
> comparison does not resolve symlinks. This makes it possible to add the
> object dir as an alternate, which may result in bad behavior. For
> example, it can trick "git repack -a -l -d" (possibly run by "git gc")
> into thinking that all packs come from an alternate and delete all
> objects.

Nice find and fix. Looks like Peff had a couple of good suggestions
which I'd like to see incorporated into another version before we pick
this up.

Otherwise, looking at the patch myself, it seems obviously good. Thanks
for working on it.


Thanks,
Taylor

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-17 17:31 [PATCH] object-file: use real paths when adding alternates Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2022-11-17 18:47 ` Jeff King
2022-11-17 19:41   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-17 21:57     ` Jeff King
2022-11-17 22:03       ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-18  0:00       ` Glen Choo
2022-11-17 21:54 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2022-11-21 23:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2022-11-22  0:56   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-22 19:53     ` Jeff King
2022-11-24  0:50       ` Glen Choo
2022-11-24  1:06         ` Jeff King
2022-11-24  0:20     ` Glen Choo
2022-11-22 19:40   ` Jeff King
2022-11-24  0:55   ` [PATCH v3] " Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2022-11-24  1:08     ` Jeff King
2022-11-25  6:51       ` Junio C Hamano

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