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When we started to catch NTFS short names that clash with .git, we only looked for GIT~1. This is sufficient because we only ever clone into an empty directory, so .git is guaranteed to be the first subdirectory or file in that directory. However, even with a fresh clone, .gitmodules is *not* necessarily the first file to be written that would want the NTFS short name GITMOD~1: a malicious repository can add .gitmodul0000 and friends, which sorts before `.gitmodules` and is therefore checked out *first*. For that reason, we have to test not only for ~1 short names, but for others, too. It's hard to just adapt the existing checks in is_ntfs_dotgit(): since Windows 2000 (i.e., in all Windows versions still supported by Git), NTFS short names are only generated in the <prefix>~<number> form up to number 4. After that, a *different* prefix is used, calculated from the long file name using an undocumented, but stable algorithm. For example, the short name of .gitmodules would be GITMOD~1, but if it is taken, and all of ~2, ~3 and ~4 are taken, too, the short name GI7EBA~1 will be used. From there, collisions are handled by incrementing the number, shortening the prefix as needed (until ~9999999 is reached, in which case NTFS will not allow the file to be created). We'd also want to handle .gitignore and .gitattributes, which suffer from a similar problem, using the fall-back short names GI250A~1 and GI7D29~1, respectively. To accommodate for that, we could reimplement the hashing algorithm, but it is just safer and simpler to provide the known prefixes. This algorithm has been reverse-engineered and described at https://usn.pw/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/, which is defunct but still available via https://web.archive.org/. These can be recomputed by running the following Perl script: -- snip -- use warnings; use strict; sub compute_short_name_hash ($) { my $checksum = 0; foreach (split('', $_[0])) { $checksum = ($checksum * 0x25 + ord($_)) & 0xffff; } $checksum = ($checksum * 314159269) & 0xffffffff; $checksum = 1 + (~$checksum & 0x7fffffff) if ($checksum & 0x80000000); $checksum -= (($checksum * 1152921497) >> 60) * 1000000007; return scalar reverse sprintf("%x", $checksum & 0xffff); } print compute_short_name_hash($ARGV[0]); -- snap -- E.g., running that with the argument ".gitignore" will result in "250a" (which then becomes "gi250a" in the code). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks