From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, me@ttaylorr.com, newren@gmail.com,
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:25:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114212548.GD3949560@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79b6e9a565fde766954d7cda84a835b9015af6cb.1579029963.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:26:02PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> If a user somehow creates a directory with an asterisk (*) or backslash
> (\), then the "git sparse-checkout set" command will struggle to provide
> the correct pattern in the sparse-checkout file. When not in cone mode,
> the provided pattern is written directly into the sparse-checkout file.
> However, in cone mode we expect a list of paths to directories and then
> we convert those into patterns.
>
> Even more specifically, the goal is to always allow the following from
> the root of a repo:
>
> git ls-tree --name-only -d HEAD | git sparse-checkout set --stdin
>
> The ls-tree command provides directory names with an unescaped asterisk.
> It also quotes the directories that contain an escaped backslash. We
> must remove these quotes, then keep the escaped backslashes.
Do we need to document these rules somewhere? Naively I'd expect
"--stdin" to take in literal pathnames. But of course it can't represent
a path with a newline. So perhaps it makes sense to take quoted names by
default, and allow literal NUL-separated input with "-z" if anybody
wants it.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 21:25 UTC|newest]
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2020-01-14 19:25 [PATCH 0/8] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 19:25 ` [PATCH 1/8] t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-16 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-14 19:25 ` [PATCH 2/8] sparse-checkout: create leading directories Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-16 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-14 19:25 ` [PATCH 3/8] clone: fix --sparse option with URLs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 19:30 ` Taylor Blau
2020-01-14 19:25 ` [PATCH 4/8] sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**" Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 21:16 ` Jeff King
2020-01-14 19:25 ` [PATCH 5/8] sparse-checkout: detect short patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 19:26 ` [PATCH 6/8] sparse-checkout: warn on incorrect '*' in patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 19:26 ` [PATCH 7/8] sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 21:21 ` Jeff King
2020-01-14 22:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-14 19:26 ` [PATCH 8/8] sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 21:25 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-01-14 22:11 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-14 22:48 ` Jeff King
2020-01-24 21:10 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-24 21:42 ` Jeff King
2020-01-28 15:03 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-14 19:34 ` [PATCH 0/8] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin Taylor Blau
2020-01-14 19:44 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-14 21:31 ` Jeff King
2020-01-15 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-15 20:32 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 00/12] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] t1091: improve here-docs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] sparse-checkout: create leading directories Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] clone: fix --sparse option with URLs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone Jeff King via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**" Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] sparse-checkout: detect short patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] sparse-checkout: warn on incorrect '*' in patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-24 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 00/12] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/12] t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/12] t1091: improve here-docs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/12] sparse-checkout: create leading directories Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/12] clone: fix --sparse option with URLs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/12] sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone Jeff King via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/12] sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**" Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/12] sparse-checkout: detect short patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 08/12] sparse-checkout: warn on incorrect '*' in patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 09/12] sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-29 10:03 ` Jeff King
2020-01-29 13:58 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-29 14:04 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/12] sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-29 10:17 ` Jeff King
2020-01-29 10:33 ` Jeff King
2020-01-29 14:16 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-29 14:39 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-30 7:29 ` Jeff King
2020-01-30 15:01 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 11/12] sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-29 10:23 ` Jeff King
2020-01-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 12/12] sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 00/15] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 01/15] t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 02/15] t1091: improve here-docs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 03/15] sparse-checkout: create leading directories Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 04/15] clone: fix --sparse option with URLs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 05/15] sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone Jeff King via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 06/15] sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**" Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 07/15] sparse-checkout: detect short patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 08/15] sparse-checkout: warn on globs in cone patterns Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 09/15] sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 10/15] sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 11/15] sparse-checkout: unquote C-style strings over --stdin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 12/15] sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 13/15] sparse-checkout: escape all glob characters on write Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 14/15] sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:16 ` [PATCH v4 15/15] sparse-checkout: fix cone mode behavior mismatch Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-01-31 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 00/15] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin Elijah Newren
2020-02-03 14:09 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-02-08 23:32 ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-09 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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