On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 04:11:59PM -0800, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> When running a command of the form
>
> git grep --no-index pattern -- path
>
> in the absence of a Git repository, an error message will be printed:
>
> fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository
>
> This is because "git grep" tries to interpret "--" as a rev. "git grep"
> has always tried to first interpret "--" as a rev for at least a few
> years, but this issue was upgraded from a pessimization to a bug in
> commit 59332d1 ("Resurrect "git grep --no-index"", 2010-02-06), which
> calls get_sha1 regardless of whether --no-index was specified. This bug
> appeared to be benign until commit b1ef400 ("setup_git_env: avoid blind
> fall-back to ".git"", 2016-10-20) when Git was taught to die in this
> situation. (This "git grep" bug appears to be one of the bugs that
> commit b1ef400 is meant to flush out.)
>
> Therefore, always interpret "--" as signaling the end of options,
> instead of trying to interpret it as a rev first.
Nicely explained.
> There is probably a similar bug for commands of the form:
>
> git grep --no-index pattern foo
>
> If there is a repo and "foo" is a rev, the "--no-index or --untracked
> cannot be used with revs." error would occur. If there is a repo and
> "foo" is not a rev, this command would proceed as usual. If there is no
> repo, the "setup_git_env called without repository" error would occur.
> (This is my understanding from reading the code - I haven't tested it
> out.)
Yes, it's easy to see that "git grep --no-index foo bar" outside of a
repo generates the same BUG. I suspect that "--no-index" should just
disable looking up revs entirely, even if we are actually in a
repository directory.
> This patch does not fix this similar bug, but I decided to send it out
> anyway because it still fixes a bug and unlocks the ability to
> specify paths with "git grep --no-index".
Yes, I think even if we fix the other bug, fixing this "--" thing is an
improvement.
> diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
> index 2c727ef49..1b68d1638 100644
> --- a/builtin/grep.c
> +++ b/builtin/grep.c
> @@ -1154,6 +1154,11 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char
> *prefix)
> const char *arg = argv[i];
> unsigned char sha1[20];
> struct object_context oc;
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
> + i++;
> + seen_dashdash = 1;
> + break;
> + }
> /* Is it a rev? */
> if (!get_sha1_with_context(arg, 0, sha1, &oc)) {
> struct object *object = parse_object_or_die(sha1, arg);
So I think this is a definite improvement, but I see a few leftover
oddities:
- the end logic for this loop is now:
if (arg is a rev) {
... handle rev ...
continue;
}
break;
It would probably be more obvious as:
if (arg is not a rev)
break;
... handle rev ...
- the rev-handling code does:
if (!seen_dashdash)
verify_non_filename(prefix, arg);
But I do not see how seen_dashdash could ever be untrue. We set it
inside this loop, and break immediately when we see it. And indeed,
running:
echo content >master
git grep content master --
does not work. The "--" should tell us that "master" is a rev, but
we don't know yet that we have a dashdash.
I think we need a separate loop to find the "--" first, and _then_
walk through the arguments, treating them as revs or paths as
appropriate. This is how setup_revisions() does it.
So this isn't a problem introduced by your patch, but it's
intimately related.
> diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
> index 19f0108f8..29202f0e7 100755
> --- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
> +++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
> @@ -982,6 +982,18 @@ test_expect_success 'grep -e -- -- path' '
> test_cmp expected actual
> '
>
> +test_expect_success 'grep --no-index pattern -- path' '
> + rm -fr non &&
> + mkdir -p non/git &&
> + (
> + GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(pwd)/non" &&
> + export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
> + cd non/git &&
> + echo hello >hello &&
> + git grep --no-index o -- .
> + )
> +'
Since de95302a4, you can do:
nongit git grep --no-index -o -- .
Though if this is destined for maint, it might need to be done
separately this way and cleaned up later.
It might also be a good idea to confirm that the pathspec is actually
being respected in the --no-index case. Something like:
echo hello >hello &&
echo goodbye >goodbye &&
echo hello:hello >expect &&
git grep --no-index o -- hello >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
-Peff
