[PATCH] git-remote: reject adding remotes with invalid names

[PATCH] git-remote: reject adding remotes with invalid names

[Jonas Fonseca]

This can happen if the arguments to git-remote add is switched by the
user, and git would only show an error if fetching was also requested.
Fix it by using the refspec parsing engine to check if the requested
name can be parsed as a remote before add it.

Also cleanup so that the "remote.<name>.url" config name buffer is only
initialized once.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
---

 This happened for me the other day, and with the recent discussion
 about the usability of remote it might be an acceptible improvement.

 builtin-remote.c  |   10 +++++++---
 remote.c          |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 remote.h          |    1 +
 t/t5505-remote.sh |    6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-remote.c b/builtin-remote.c
index 06d33e5..a3ee1ac 100644
--- a/builtin-remote.c
+++ b/builtin-remote.c
@@ -90,18 +90,22 @@ static int add(int argc, const char **argv)
 	strbuf_init(&buf, 0);
 	strbuf_init(&buf2, 0);
 
+	strbuf_addf(&buf2, "refs/heads/test:refs/remotes/%s/test", name);
+	if (!valid_fetch_refspec(buf2.buf))
+		die("'%s' is not a valid remote name", name);
+
 	strbuf_addf(&buf, "remote.%s.url", name);
 	if (git_config_set(buf.buf, url))
 		return 1;
 
+	strbuf_reset(&buf);
+	strbuf_addf(&buf, "remote.%s.fetch", name);
+
 	if (track.nr == 0)
 		path_list_append("*", &track);
 	for (i = 0; i < track.nr; i++) {
 		struct path_list_item *item = track.items + i;
 
-		strbuf_reset(&buf);
-		strbuf_addf(&buf, "remote.%s.fetch", name);
-
 		strbuf_reset(&buf2);
 		if (mirror)
 			strbuf_addf(&buf2, "refs/%s:refs/%s",
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 369dc33..06ad156 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void read_config(void)
 	alias_all_urls();
 }
 
-static struct refspec *parse_refspec_internal(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec, int fetch)
+static struct refspec *parse_refspec_internal(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec, int fetch, int verify)
 {
 	int i;
 	int st;
@@ -519,17 +519,32 @@ static struct refspec *parse_refspec_internal(int nr_refspec, const char **refsp
 	return rs;
 
  invalid:
+	if (verify) {
+		free(rs);
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	die("Invalid refspec '%s'", refspec[i]);
 }
 
+int valid_fetch_refspec(const char *fetch_refspec_str)
+{
+	const char *fetch_refspec[] = { fetch_refspec_str };
+	struct refspec *refspec;
+
+	refspec = parse_refspec_internal(1, fetch_refspec, 1, 1);
+	if (refspec)
+		free(refspec);
+	return !!refspec;
+}
+
 struct refspec *parse_fetch_refspec(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec)
 {
-	return parse_refspec_internal(nr_refspec, refspec, 1);
+	return parse_refspec_internal(nr_refspec, refspec, 1, 0);
 }
 
 struct refspec *parse_push_refspec(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec)
 {
-	return parse_refspec_internal(nr_refspec, refspec, 0);
+	return parse_refspec_internal(nr_refspec, refspec, 0, 0);
 }
 
 static int valid_remote_nick(const char *name)
diff --git a/remote.h b/remote.h
index 7e9ae79..a38774b 100644
--- a/remote.h
+++ b/remote.h
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ void free_refs(struct ref *ref);
  */
 void ref_remove_duplicates(struct ref *ref_map);
 
+int valid_fetch_refspec(const char *refspec);
 struct refspec *parse_fetch_refspec(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec);
 struct refspec *parse_push_refspec(int nr_refspec, const char **refspec);
 
diff --git a/t/t5505-remote.sh b/t/t5505-remote.sh
index 0a7fea8..af2d077 100755
--- a/t/t5505-remote.sh
+++ b/t/t5505-remote.sh
@@ -253,4 +253,10 @@ test_expect_success '"remote show" does not show symbolic refs' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'reject adding remote with an invalid name' '
+
+	! git remote add some:url desired-name
+
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.5.5.104.ge4331.dirty

-- 
Jonas Fonseca