Re: [PATCH] remote.c: Fix overtight refspec validation

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Especially that "refs/tags/*" is sad in that it is leaking an internal
> implementation detail.  I do not think the original code ever used
> wildcards on the push side, and it probably was a good idea to allow
> wildcards when the code was rewritten.

Having thought about this a bit more, I think this patch would be more
useful.  Please discard the previous patch to builtin-push.c and replace
with this patch.

Now it allows you to say:

	[remote "neigh"]
        	url = ../neighbour
                push = refs/tags/*

to propagate all tags one-to-one, without having to say
"refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*".

This however has unintended side effect of allowing 

	[remote "bour"]
        	url = ../neighbour
                fetch = refs/heads/*

at the syntax level.  I do not know offhand the fetch backends are
prepared to deal with such wildcard patterns.

Daniel?

---
 remote.c |   18 +++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 40ed246..c39d831 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -417,17 +417,21 @@ static struct refspec *parse_refspec_internal(int nr_refspec, const char **refsp
 			rhs++;
 			rlen = strlen(rhs);
 			is_glob = (2 <= rlen && !strcmp(rhs + rlen - 2, "/*"));
-			rs[i].dst = xstrndup(rhs, rlen - is_glob * 2);
+			if (is_glob)
+				rlen -= 2;
+			rs[i].dst = xstrndup(rhs, rlen);
 		}
 
 		llen = (rhs ? (rhs - lhs - 1) : strlen(lhs));
-		if (is_glob != (2 <= llen && !memcmp(lhs + llen - 2, "/*", 2)))
-			goto invalid;
-
-		if (is_glob) {
+		if (2 <= llen && !memcmp(lhs + llen - 2, "/*", 2)) {
+			if (rhs && !is_glob)
+				goto invalid;
+			is_glob = 1;
 			llen -= 2;
-			rlen -= 2;
+		} else if (rhs && is_glob) {
+			goto invalid;
 		}
+
 		rs[i].pattern = is_glob;
 		rs[i].src = xstrndup(lhs, llen);
 
@@ -446,7 +450,7 @@ static struct refspec *parse_refspec_internal(int nr_refspec, const char **refsp
 			}
 			/*
 			 * RHS
-			 * - missing is allowed.
+			 * - missing is ok, and is same as empty.
 			 * - empty is ok; it means not to store.
 			 * - otherwise it must be a valid looking ref.
 			 */