The documentation and error messages for git-cvsserver include some
references to a "whitelist" that is not otherwise included in the
documentation. When different parts of the documentation do not use
common language, this can lead to confusion as to how things are meant
to operate.
Further, the word "whitelist" has cultural implications that make its
use non-inclusive. Thankfully, we can remove it while increasing
clarity.
Update Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt in a similar way to the previous
change to Documentation/git-daemon.txt. The optional '<directory>...'
list can specify a list of allowed directories. We refer to that list
directly inside of the documentation for the GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT
environment variable.
While modifying this documentation, update the environment variables to
use a list format. We use the modern way of tabbing the description of
each variable in this section. We do _not_ update the description of
'<directory>...' to use tabs this way since the rest of the items in the
OPTIONS list do not use this modern formatting.
A single error message in the actual git-cvsserver.perl code refers to
the whitelist during argument parsing. Instead, refer to the directory
list that has been clarified in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The undecorated arguments to the 'git-daemon' command provide a list of
directories. When at least one directory is specified, then 'git-daemon'
only serves requests that are within that directory list. The boolean
'--strict-paths' option makes the list more explicit in that
subdirectories are no longer included.
The existing documentation and error messages around this directory list
refer to it and its behavior as a "whitelist". The word "whitelist" has
cultural implications that are not inclusive. Thankfully, it is not
difficult to reword and avoid its use. In the process, we can define the
purpose of this directory list directly.
In Documentation/git-daemon.txt, rewrite the OPTIONS section around the
'<directory>' option. Add additional clarity to the other options that
refer to these directories.
Some error messages can also be improved in daemon.c. The
'--strict-paths' option requires '<directory>' arguments, so refer to
that section of the documentation directly. A logerror() call points out
that a requested directory is not in the specified directory list. We
can use "list" here without any loss of information.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cat-file is used by tools like GitLab to get commit tag contents
that are then displayed to users. This content which has author,
committer or tagger information, could benefit from passing through the
mailmap mechanism before being sent or displayed.
This patch adds --[no-]use-mailmap command line option to the git
cat-file command. It also adds --[no-]mailmap option as an alias to
--[no-]use-mailmap.
This patch also introduces new test cases to test the mailmap mechanism in
git cat-file command.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt the content from 'contrib/scalar/README.md' into a design document in
'Documentation/technical/'. In addition to reformatting for asciidoc,
elaborate on the background, purpose, and design choices that went into
Scalar.
Most of this document will persist in the 'Documentation/technical/' after
Scalar has been moved out of 'contrib/' and into the root of Git. Until that
time, it will also contain a temporary "Roadmap" section detailing the
remaining series needed to finish the initial version of Scalar. The section
will be removed once Scalar is moved to the repo root, but in the meantime
serves as a guide for readers to keep up with progress on the feature.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse checkout feature can be used in "cone mode" or "non-cone
mode". In this one instance in the documentation, we refer to the latter
as "non cone mode" with whitespace rather than a hyphen. Align this with
the rest of our documentation.
A few words later in the same paragraph, there's mention of "a more
flexible patterns". Drop that leading "a" to fix the grammar.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first section of 'Documentation/technical/index-format.txt'
mentions that "Git currently supports cache tree and resolve undo
extensions", but then goes on, and in the "Extensions" section
describes not only these two, but six other extensions [1].
Remove this sentence, as it's misleading about the status of all those
other extensions.
Alternatively we could keep that sentence and update the list of
extensions, but that might well lead to a recurring issue, because
apparently this list is never updated when a new index extension is
added.
[1] Split index, untracked cache, FS monitor cache, end of index
entry, index entry offset table and sparse directory entries.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git config's tab completion does not yet know about the "include"
and "includeIf" sections, nor the related "path" variable.
Add a description for these two sections in
'Documentation/config/includeif.txt', which points to git-config's
documentation, specifically the "Includes" and "Conditional Includes"
subsections.
As a side effect, tab completion can successfully complete the
'include', 'includeIf', and 'include.add' expressions.
This effect is tested by two new ad-hoc tests.
Variable completion only works for "include" for now.
Credit for the ideas behind this patch goes to
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manuel Boni <ziosombrero@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a known social engineering attack that takes advantage of the
fact that a working tree can include an entire bare repository,
including a config file. A user could run a Git command inside the bare
repository thinking that the config file of the 'outer' repository would
be used, but in reality, the bare repository's config file (which is
attacker-controlled) is used, which may result in arbitrary code
execution. See [1] for a fuller description and deeper discussion.
A simple mitigation is to forbid bare repositories unless specified via
`--git-dir` or `GIT_DIR`. In environments that don't use bare
repositories, this would be minimally disruptive.
Create a config variable, `safe.bareRepository`, that tells Git whether
or not to die() when working with a bare repository. This config is an
enum of:
- "all": allow all bare repositories (this is the default)
- "explicit": only allow bare repositories specified via --git-dir
or GIT_DIR.
If we want to protect users from such attacks by default, neither value
will suffice - "all" provides no protection, but "explicit" is
impractical for bare repository users. A more usable default would be to
allow only non-embedded bare repositories ([2] contains one such
proposal), but detecting if a repository is embedded is potentially
non-trivial, so this work is not implemented in this series.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/kl6lsfqpygsj.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/5b969c5e-e802-c447-ad25-6acc0b784582@github.com
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use git_protected_config() to read `safe.directory` instead of
read_very_early_config(), making it 'protected configuration only'.
As a result, `safe.directory` now respects "-c", so update the tests and
docs accordingly. It used to ignore "-c" due to how it was implemented,
not because of security or correctness concerns [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlevabcsu.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For security reasons, there are config variables that are only trusted
when they are specified in certain configuration scopes, which are
sometimes referred to on-list as 'protected configuration' [1]. A future
commit will introduce another such variable, so let's define our terms
so that we can have consistent documentation and implementation.
In our documentation, define 'protected configuration' as the system,
global and command config scopes. As a shorthand, I will refer to
variables that are only respected in protected configuration as
'protected configuration only', but this term is not used in the
documentation.
This definition of protected configuration is based on whether or not
Git can reasonably protect the user by ignoring the configuration scope:
- System, global and command line config are considered protected
because an attacker who has control over any of those can do plenty of
harm without Git, so we gain very little by ignoring those scopes.
- On the other hand, local (and similarly, worktree) config are not
considered protected because it is relatively easy for an attacker to
control local config, e.g.:
- On some shared user environments, a non-admin attacker can create a
repository high up the directory hierarchy (e.g. C:\.git on
Windows), and a user may accidentally use it when their PS1
automatically invokes "git" commands.
`safe.directory` prevents attacks of this form by making sure that
the user intended to use the shared repository. It obviously
shouldn't be read from the repository, because that would end up
trusting the repository that Git was supposed to reject.
- "git upload-pack" is expected to run in repositories that may not be
controlled by the user. We cannot ignore all config in that
repository (because "git upload-pack" would fail), but we can limit
the risks by ignoring `uploadpack.packObjectsHook`.
Only `uploadpack.packObjectsHook` is 'protected configuration only'. The
following variables are intentionally excluded:
- `safe.directory` should be 'protected configuration only', but it does
not technically fit the definition because it is not respected in the
"command" scope. A future commit will fix this.
- `trace2.*` happens to read the same scopes as `safe.directory` because
they share an implementation. However, this is not for security
reasons; it is because we want to start tracing so early that
repository-level config and "-c" are not available [2].
This requirement is unique to `trace2.*`, so it does not makes sense
for protected configuration to be subject to the same constraints.
[1] For example,
https://lore.kernel.org/git/6af83767-576b-75c4-c778-0284344a8fe7@github.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/a0c89d0d-669e-bf56-25d2-cbb09b012e70@jeffhostetler.com/
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent commit, we will introduce "protected configuration",
which is easiest to describe in terms of configuration scopes (i.e. it's
the union of the 'system', 'global', and 'command' scopes). This
description is fine for ML discussions, but it's inadequate for end
users because we don't provide a good description of "configuration
scopes" in the public docs.
145d59f482 (config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config
value, 2020-02-10) introduced the word "scope" to our public docs, but
that only enumerates the scopes and assumes the user can figure out
what those values mean.
Add a SCOPES section to Documentation/git-config.txt that describes the
configuration scopes, their corresponding CLI options, and mentions that
some configuration options are only respected in certain scopes. Then,
use the word "scope" to simplify the FILES section and change some
confusing wording.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow large objects read from a packstream to be streamed into a
loose object file straight, without having to keep it in-core as a
whole.
* hx/unpack-streaming:
unpack-objects: use stream_loose_object() to unpack large objects
core doc: modernize core.bigFileThreshold documentation
object-file.c: add "stream_loose_object()" to handle large object
object-file.c: factor out deflate part of write_loose_object()
object-file.c: refactor write_loose_object() to several steps
unpack-objects: low memory footprint for get_data() in dry_run mode
"git merge-tree" learned a new mode where it takes two commits and
computes a tree that would result in the merge commit, if the
histories leading to these two commits were to be merged.
* en/merge-tree:
git-merge-tree.txt: add a section on potentional usage mistakes
merge-tree: add a --allow-unrelated-histories flag
merge-tree: allow `ls-files -u` style info to be NUL terminated
merge-ort: optionally produce machine-readable output
merge-ort: store more specific conflict information
merge-ort: make `path_messages` a strmap to a string_list
merge-ort: store messages in a list, not in a single strbuf
merge-tree: provide easy access to `ls-files -u` style info
merge-tree: provide a list of which files have conflicts
merge-ort: remove command-line-centric submodule message from merge-ort
merge-ort: provide a merge_get_conflicted_files() helper function
merge-tree: support including merge messages in output
merge-ort: split out a separate display_update_messages() function
merge-tree: implement real merges
merge-tree: add option parsing and initial shell for real merge function
merge-tree: move logic for existing merge into new function
merge-tree: rename merge_trees() to trivial_merge_trees()
References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
documentation mark-up have been corrected.
* ds/git-rebase-doc-markup:
git-rebase.txt: use back-ticks consistently
"git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are
used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".
* zk/push-use-bitmaps:
send-pack.c: add config push.useBitmaps
Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
".tgz") archives.
* rs/archive-with-internal-gzip:
archive-tar: use internal gzip by default
archive-tar: use OS_CODE 3 (Unix) for internal gzip
archive-tar: add internal gzip implementation
archive-tar: factor out write_block()
archive: rename archiver data field to filter_command
archive: update format documentation
Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
add some missing information to the documentation.
* ac/bitmap-format-doc:
bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksum
bitmap-format.txt: fix some formatting issues
bitmap-format.txt: feed the file to asciidoc to generate html
Update "git diff/log --raw" format documentation.
* pb/diff-doc-raw-format:
diff-index.txt: update raw output format in examples
diff-format.txt: correct misleading wording
diff-format.txt: dst can be 0* SHA-1 when path is deleted, too
While inspecting the 'git rebase' documentation, I noticed that it is
inconsistent with how it uses back-ticks (or other punctuation) for
identifying Git commands, command-line arguments, or values for those
arguments.
Sometimes, an argument (like '--interactive') would appear without any
punctuation, causing the argument to not have any special formatting.
Other times, arguments or 'git rebase' itself would have single-quotes
giving a bold look (in the HTML documentation at least).
By consistently using back-ticks, these types of strings appear in a
monospace font with special highlighting to appear more clearly as text
that exists in a command-line invocation of a Git command.
This rather-large diff is the result of scanning git-rebase.txt and
adding back-ticks as appropriate. Some are adding back-ticks where there
was no punctuation. Others are replacing single quotes.
There are also a few minor cleanups in the process, including those
found by reviewers.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
43966ab315 (revert: optionally refer to commit in the "reference"
format, 2022-05-26) added the documentation file config/revert.txt.
Actually include it in config.txt.
Make is used with a bare infinitive after the object; remove the "to".
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7281c196b1 (transfer doc: move fetch.credentialsInUrl to
"transfer" config namespace, 2022-06-15) propagates a typo from
6dcbdc0d66 (remote: create fetch.credentialsInUrl config, 2022-06-06),
where "other" is misspelled as "oher". Fix the typo accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation explained the conversion from remote branch path to
local tracking ref path for @{push}, but not for @{upstream}.
Add the explanation to @{upstream}, and reference it in @{push} to avoid
undue repetition.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.35:
Git 2.35.4
Git 2.34.4
Git 2.33.4
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.34:
Git 2.34.4
Git 2.33.4
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.33:
Git 2.33.4
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.32:
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.31:
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.30:
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
In asciidoc's HTML output of the "gitrevisions" and "git-rev-parse"
documentation, the header:
The ... (three-dot) Symmetric Difference Notation
is rendered using "&8230;", a horizontal ellipsis. This is visually
ugly, but also hard to search for or cut-and-paste. We really mean three
ascii dots (0x2e) here, so let's make sure it renders as such.
The simplest way to do that is just escaping the leading dot, as the
instances in the rest of the section do. Arguably this should all be
converted to use backticks, which would let us drop the quoting here and
elsewhere (e.g., {carat}). But that does change the rendering slightly.
So let's fix the bug first, and we can decide on migrating the whole
section separately.
Note that this produces an empty doc-diff of the manpages. Curiously,
asciidoc produces the same ellipsis entity in the XML file, but docbook
then converts it back into three literal dots for the roff output! So
the roff manpages have been correct all along (which may be a reason
nobody noticed this until now).
Reported-by: Arthur Milchior
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
