Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] list-objects: filter objects in traverse_commit_list

On Tue,  7 Nov 2017 19:35:44 +0000
Jeff Hostetler [off-list ref] wrote:

+/*
+ * Reject the arg if it contains any characters that might
+ * require quoting or escaping when handing to a sub-command.
+ */
+static int reject_injection_chars(const char *arg)
+{

[snip]

+}

Someone pointed me to quote.{c,h}, which is probably sufficient to
ensure shell safety if we do invoke subcommands through the shell. If
that is so, we probably don't need a blacklist.

Having said that, though, it might be safer to still introduce one, and
relax it later if necessary - it is much easier to relax a constraint
than to increase one.

+	} else if (skip_prefix(arg, "sparse:", &v0)) {
+
+		if (skip_prefix(v0, "oid=", &v1)) {
+			struct object_context oc;
+			struct object_id sparse_oid;
+			filter_options->choice = LOFC_SPARSE_OID;
+			if (!get_oid_with_context(v1, GET_OID_BLOB,
+						  &sparse_oid, &oc))
+				filter_options->sparse_oid_value =
+					oiddup(&sparse_oid);
+			return 0;
+		}

In your recent e-mail [1], you said that you will change it to always pass
the original expression - is that still the plan?

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/f698d5a8-bf31-cea1-a8da-88b755b0b7af@jeffhostetler.com/

+/* Remember to update object flag allocation in object.h */

You probably can delete this line.

+/*
+ * FILTER_SHOWN_BUT_REVISIT -- we set this bit on tree objects
+ * that have been shown, but should be revisited if they appear
+ * in the traversal (until we mark it SEEN).  This is a way to
+ * let us silently de-dup calls to show() in the caller.

This is unclear to me at first reading. Maybe something like:

  FILTER_SHOWN_BUT_REVISIT -- we set this bit on tree objects that have
  been shown, but should not be skipped over if they reappear in the
  traversal. This ensures that the tree's descendants are re-processed
  if the tree reappears subsequently, and that the tree is not shown
  twice.

+ * This
+ * is subtly different from the "revision.h:SHOWN" and the
+ * "sha1_name.c:ONELINE_SEEN" bits.  And also different from
+ * the non-de-dup usage in pack-bitmap.c
+ */

Optional: I'm not sure if this comparison is useful. (Maybe it is useful
to others, though.)

+/*
+ * A filter driven by a sparse-checkout specification to only
+ * include blobs that a sparse checkout would populate.
+ *
+ * The sparse-checkout spec can be loaded from a blob with the
+ * given OID or from a local pathname.  We allow an OID because
+ * the repo may be bare or we may be doing the filtering on the
+ * server.
+ */
+struct frame {
+	/*
+	 * defval is the usual default include/exclude value that
+	 * should be inherited as we recurse into directories based
+	 * upon pattern matching of the directory itself or of a
+	 * containing directory.
+	 */
+	int defval;

Can this be an "unsigned defval : 1" as well? In the function below, I
see that you assign to an "int val" first (which can take -1, 0, and 1)
before assigning to this, so that is fine.

Also, maybe a better name would be "exclude", with the documentation:

  1 if the directory is excluded, 0 otherwise. Excluded directories will
  still be recursed through, because an "include" rule for an object
  might override an "exclude" rule for one of its ancestors.