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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:24:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa7cml0s9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806143829.GA515@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 6 Aug 2019 10:38:30 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It's hard for scripted uses of rev-list, etc, to avoid option injection
> from untrusted arguments, because revision arguments must come before
> any "--" separator. I.e.:
>
>   git rev-list "$revision" -- "$path"
>
> might mistake "$revision" for an option (with rev-list, that would make
> it an error, but something like git-log would default to HEAD).

Just to make sure I understand what I just read, let me paraphrase.
We would want to accept

	git rev-list --max-parents=4 \
		--end-of-options \
		--count -- docs/

so that '--count' would go thru the usual "as we have -- later, it
must be a rev and we do not even disambiguate.  What does get_sha1()
say it is?" and "docs/" would be taken as a pathspec.

"git rev-list --max-parents=4 --count -- docs/" would have treated
"--count" as an option and would error out due to lack of any
starting revision.

On the other hand, "git log --count -- docs/" would take "--count"
as an option, but does not complain about lack of any revs.  It just
starts digging from HEAD and ends up ignoring the "--count" branch
(or is this feature meant to support tags?  As far as I recall, we
do not allow branch names that begin with a dash).

> This series provides an alternative to "--" to stop option parsing
> without indicating that further arguments are pathspecs.
>
>   [1/3]: revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing
>   [2/3]: parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--"
>   [3/3]: gitcli: document --end-of-options
>
>  Documentation/gitcli.txt | 6 ++++++
>  parse-options.c          | 3 ++-
>  revision.c               | 8 +++++++-
>  t/t0040-parse-options.sh | 7 +++++++
>  t/t4202-log.sh           | 7 +++++++
>  t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh | 8 ++++++++
>  6 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 14:38 [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--" Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] gitcli: document --end-of-options Jeff King
2019-08-06 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-08-06 16:36   ` [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker Randall S. Becker
2019-08-06 17:38     ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 17:58       ` Randall S. Becker
2019-08-06 18:14       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-08 10:03         ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 17:33   ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 22:58 ` brian m. carlson
2019-08-06 23:43   ` Jeff King
2019-08-07  4:17     ` brian m. carlson
2019-08-07 16:54       ` Taylor Blau
2019-08-08 10:28       ` Jeff King

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