Thanks for the review Junio! I really appreciate it and look forward
to hear what you think of the updated patch.
Cheers!
Garima Singh
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:44 AM Garima Singh via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Garima Singh <garima.si...@microsoft.com>
>
> The sq_quote_buf_pretty() function does not emit anything when
> the incoming string is empty, but the function is to accumulate
> command line arguments, properly quoted as necessary, and the
> right way to add an argument that is an empty string is to show
> it quoted, i.e. ''. We warn the caller with the BUG macro if they
> pass in a NULL.
>
> Reported by: Junio Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.si...@microsoft.com>
> ---
> quote.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> t/t0014-alias.sh | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/quote.c b/quote.c
> index 7f2aa6faa4..6d0f8a22a9 100644
> --- a/quote.c
> +++ b/quote.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ void sq_quote_buf_pretty(struct strbuf *dst, const char
> *src)
> static const char ok_punct[] = "+,-./:=@_^";
> const char *p;
>
> + /* In case of null tokens, warn the user of the BUG in their call. */
> + if (!src)
> + BUG("BUG can't append a NULL token to the buffer");
> +
> + /* In case of empty tokens, add a '' to ensure they
> + * don't get inadvertently dropped.
> + */
> + if (!*src) {
> + strbuf_addstr(dst, "''");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> for (p = src; *p; p++) {
> if (!isalpha(*p) && !isdigit(*p) && !strchr(ok_punct, *p)) {
> sq_quote_buf(dst, src);
> diff --git a/t/t0014-alias.sh b/t/t0014-alias.sh
> index a070e645d7..9c176c7cbb 100755
> --- a/t/t0014-alias.sh
> +++ b/t/t0014-alias.sh
> @@ -37,4 +37,12 @@ test_expect_success 'looping aliases - internal execution'
> '
> # test_i18ngrep "^fatal: alias loop detected: expansion of" output
> #'
>
> +test_expect_success 'run-command parses empty args properly, using
> sq_quote_buf_pretty' '
> + cat >expect <<-EOF &&
> + fatal: cannot change to '\''alias.foo=frotz foo '\'''\'' bar'\'': No
> such file or directory
> + EOF
> + test_expect_code 128 git -C "alias.foo=frotz foo '\'''\'' bar" foo
> 2>actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +
> test_done
> --
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