| commit | d426430e6ec2a05bf0a4ee88c319dd6072908504 | [log] [tgz] |
|---|---|---|
| author | Emily Xie <emilyxxie@gmail.com> | Wed Jun 22 19:00:24 2016 -0400 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Wed Jun 22 16:13:23 2016 -0700 |
| tree | 80d8455808ba0b5649d08c1330bd1e5485ba4670 | |
| parent | 05219a1276341e72d8082d76b7f5ed394b7437a4 [diff] |
pathspec: warn on empty strings as pathspec
An empty string as a pathspec element matches all paths. A buggy
script, however, could accidentally assign an empty string to a
variable that then gets passed to a Git command invocation, e.g.:
path=... compute a path to be removed in $path ...
git rm -r "$paht"
which would unintentionally remove all paths in the current
directory.
The fix for this issue requires a two-step approach. As there may be
existing scripts that knowingly use empty strings in this manner,
the first step simply gives a warning that (1) tells that an empty
string will become an invalid pathspec element and (2) asks the user
to use "." if they mean to match all.
For step two, a follow-up patch several release cycles later will
remove the warning and throw an error instead.
This patch is the first step.
Signed-off-by: Emily Xie <emilyxxie@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Mentored-by: Michail Denchev <mdenchev@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Sarah Sharp <sarah@thesharps.us> and James Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 http://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 http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.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):