From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:23:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtwz2pu4c.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150203210140.GA20594@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:01:40 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Right, I do not think these tests will _fail_ when the filesystem does
> not support symlinks. But nor are they actually testing anything
> interesting. They would pass on such a system even without your patch,
> as we would fail to apply even the symlink creation part of the patch.
I thought we write out the contents of the symbolic link as a
regular file on such a filesystem, and as long as we do not expect
"test -h expected-to-be-symlink-we-just-created" to succeed we would
be fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 23:27 [PATCH v2 0/4] "git apply" safety Junio C Hamano
2015-02-02 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 0:45 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 0:50 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 21:01 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-03 21:24 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 21:50 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 5:56 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-02-02 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index Junio C Hamano
2015-02-02 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 0:08 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-03 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 19:44 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-03 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-02 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] apply: do not touch a file " Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 1:11 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 1:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 2:04 ` Jeff King
2015-02-03 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-03 23:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-02-04 0:44 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] "git apply" safety Junio C Hamano
2015-02-04 0:44 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside the working area Junio C Hamano
2015-02-04 0:44 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index Junio C Hamano
2015-02-04 0:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link Junio C Hamano
2015-02-04 0:44 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] apply: do not touch a file " Junio C Hamano
2015-02-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] "git apply" safety Junio C Hamano
2015-02-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside the working area Junio C Hamano
2015-02-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index Junio C Hamano
2015-02-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link Junio C Hamano
2015-02-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] apply: do not touch a file " Junio C Hamano
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