[BUG, PATCH v2 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks

[BUG, PATCH v2 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks

[Kirill Smelkov]

Recently I've spot a bug in git blame --textconv, which was wrongly
calling pdftotext (my *.pdf conversion program) on a symlink.pdf, and I
was getting something like

    $ git blame -C -C regular-file.pdf
    Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
    Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
    Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
    Error: Couldn't read xref table
    Warning: program returned non-zero exit code #1
    fatal: unable to read files to diff

That errors come from pdftotext run on symlink.pdf being extracted to
/tmp/ with one-line plain-text content pointing to link destination.

Please apply and thanks,
Kirill

v2:

 o Incorporated suggestions by Matthieu and Jeff (details in each patch)


Kirill Smelkov (3):
  tests: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion
    program
  blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter
    on symlinks
  blame,cat-file --textconv: Don't assume mode is ``S_IFREF | 0664''

 builtin.h                        |    2 +-
 builtin/blame.c                  |   33 ++++++++++++++-------
 builtin/cat-file.c               |    2 +-
 sha1_name.c                      |    2 +
 t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh |   25 ++++++++--------
 t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh        |   58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh     |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 7 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.3.rc2

[PATCH v2 1/3] tests: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion program

[Kirill Smelkov]

(Description by Matthieu Moy)

The textconv filter is sometimes incorrectly ran on a temporary file
whose content is the target of a symbolic link, instead of actual file
content. Prepare to test this by marking the content of the file to
convert with "bin:", and let the helper die if "bin:" is not found in
the file content.

Cc: Axel Bonnet <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
---

v2:

 o Changed patch description as suggested by Matthieu


 t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh |   25 +++++++++++++------------
 t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh        |   15 ++++++++-------
 t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh     |   11 ++++++-----
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh b/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh
index 91f8198..7668099 100755
--- a/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh
+++ b/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh
@@ -5,18 +5,19 @@ test_description='test textconv caching'
 
 cat >helper <<'EOF'
 #!/bin/sh
-sed 's/^/converted: /' "$@" >helper.out
+grep -q '^bin: ' "$@" || { echo "E: $@ is not \"binary\" file" 1>&2; exit 1; }
+sed 's/^bin:/converted:/' "$@" >helper.out
 cat helper.out
 EOF
 chmod +x helper
 
 test_expect_success 'setup' '
-	echo foo content 1 >foo.bin &&
-	echo bar content 1 >bar.bin &&
+	echo "bin: foo content 1" >foo.bin &&
+	echo "bin: bar content 1" >bar.bin &&
 	git add . &&
 	git commit -m one &&
-	echo foo content 2 >foo.bin &&
-	echo bar content 2 >bar.bin &&
+	echo "bin: foo content 2" >foo.bin &&
+	echo "bin: bar content 2" >bar.bin &&
 	git commit -a -m two &&
 	echo "*.bin diff=magic" >.gitattributes &&
 	git config diff.magic.textconv ./helper &&
@@ -25,14 +26,14 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 
 cat >expect <<EOF
 diff --git a/bar.bin b/bar.bin
-index fcf9166..28283d5 100644
+index 628fb83..f64d847 100644
 --- a/bar.bin
 +++ b/bar.bin
 @@ -1 +1 @@
 -converted: bar content 1
 +converted: bar content 2
 diff --git a/foo.bin b/foo.bin
-index d5b9fe3..1345db2 100644
+index 255496b..ad450ff 100644
 --- a/foo.bin
 +++ b/foo.bin
 @@ -1 +1 @@
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cached textconv does not run helper' '
 
 cat >expect <<EOF
 diff --git a/bar.bin b/bar.bin
-index fcf9166..28283d5 100644
+index 628fb83..f64d847 100644
 --- a/bar.bin
 +++ b/bar.bin
 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ index fcf9166..28283d5 100644
 -converted: bar content 1
 +converted: bar content 2
 diff --git a/foo.bin b/foo.bin
-index d5b9fe3..1345db2 100644
+index 255496b..ad450ff 100644
 --- a/foo.bin
 +++ b/foo.bin
 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ index d5b9fe3..1345db2 100644
 +converted: foo content 2
 EOF
 test_expect_success 'changing textconv invalidates cache' '
-	echo other >other &&
+	echo "bin: other" >other &&
 	git config diff.magic.textconv "./helper other" &&
 	git diff HEAD^ HEAD >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ test_expect_success 'changing textconv invalidates cache' '
 
 cat >expect <<EOF
 diff --git a/bar.bin b/bar.bin
-index fcf9166..28283d5 100644
+index 628fb83..f64d847 100644
 --- a/bar.bin
 +++ b/bar.bin
 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ index fcf9166..28283d5 100644
 -converted: bar content 1
 +converted: bar content 2
 diff --git a/foo.bin b/foo.bin
-index d5b9fe3..1345db2 100644
+index 255496b..ad450ff 100644
 --- a/foo.bin
 +++ b/foo.bin
 @@ -1 +1 @@
diff --git a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
index 9ad96d4..d0f8d62 100755
--- a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
@@ -9,22 +9,23 @@ find_blame() {
 
 cat >helper <<'EOF'
 #!/bin/sh
-sed 's/^/converted: /' "$@"
+grep -q '^bin: ' "$@" || { echo "E: $@ is not \"binary\" file" 1>&2; exit 1; }
+sed 's/^bin:/converted:/' "$@"
 EOF
 chmod +x helper
 
 test_expect_success 'setup ' '
-	echo test 1 >one.bin &&
-	echo test number 2 >two.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test 1" >one.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test number 2" >two.bin &&
 	git add . &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number1 git commit -a -m First --date="2010-01-01 18:00:00" &&
-	echo test 1 version 2 >one.bin &&
-	echo test number 2 version 2 >>two.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test 1 version 2" >one.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test number 2 version 2" >>two.bin &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number2 git commit -a -m Second --date="2010-01-01 20:00:00"
 '
 
 cat >expected <<EOF
-(Number2 2010-01-01 20:00:00 +0000 1) test 1 version 2
+(Number2 2010-01-01 20:00:00 +0000 1) bin: test 1 version 2
 EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'no filter specified' '
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ test_expect_success 'blame --textconv going through revisions' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'make a new commit' '
-	echo "test number 2 version 3" >>two.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test number 2 version 3" >>two.bin &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number3 git commit -a -m Third --date="2010-01-01 22:00:00"
 '
 
diff --git a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
index 38ac05e..413d623 100755
--- a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
@@ -5,15 +5,16 @@ test_description='git cat-file textconv support'
 
 cat >helper <<'EOF'
 #!/bin/sh
-sed 's/^/converted: /' "$@"
+grep -q '^bin: ' "$@" || { echo "E: $@ is not \"binary\" file" 1>&2; exit 1; }
+sed 's/^bin:/converted:/' "$@"
 EOF
 chmod +x helper
 
 test_expect_success 'setup ' '
-	echo test >one.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test" >one.bin &&
 	git add . &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number1 git commit -a -m First --date="2010-01-01 18:00:00" &&
-	echo test version 2 >one.bin &&
+	echo "bin: test version 2" >one.bin &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number2 git commit -a -m Second --date="2010-01-01 20:00:00"
 '
 
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup textconv filters' '
 '
 
 cat >expected <<EOF
-test version 2
+bin: test version 2
 EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'cat-file without --textconv' '
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cat-file without --textconv' '
 '
 
 cat >expected <<EOF
-test
+bin: test
 EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'cat-file without --textconv on previous commit' '
-- 
1.7.3.rc2

[PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Kirill Smelkov]

(Description partly by Matthieu Moy)

git blame --textconv is wrongly calling the textconv filter on
symlinks: symlinks are stored as blobs whose content is the target of
the link, and blame calls the textconv filter on a temporary file
filled-in with the content of this blob.

For example:

    $ git blame -C -C regular-file.pdf
    Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
    Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
    Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
    Error: Couldn't read xref table
    Warning: program returned non-zero exit code #1
    fatal: unable to read files to diff

That errors come from pdftotext run on symlink.pdf being extracted to
/tmp/ with one-line plain-text content pointing to link destination.

So several failures are demonstrated here:

  - git cat-file --textconv :symlink.bin    # also HEAD:symlink.bin
  - git blame --textconv symlink.bin
  - git blame -C -C --textconv regular-file # but also looks on symlink.bin

At present they all fail with something like.

    E: /tmp/j3ELEs_symlink.bin is not "binary" file

~~~~

NOTE: git diff doesn't try to textconv the pathnames, it runs the
textual diff without textconv, which is the expected behavior.

Cc: Axel Bonnet <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
---

v2:

 (As suggested by Matthieu)
 o Changed patch descriptio 
 o Moved most of >expected preparation into test_expect_*
 o Changed multiple echo'es into cat <<EOF
 o Use printf "%s" instead echo -n, since latter is said to be not very
   portable


 t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh    |   45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
index d0f8d62..7d42e96 100755
--- a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ chmod +x helper
 test_expect_success 'setup ' '
 	echo "bin: test 1" >one.bin &&
 	echo "bin: test number 2" >two.bin &&
+	ln -s one.bin symlink.bin &&
 	git add . &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number1 git commit -a -m First --date="2010-01-01 18:00:00" &&
 	echo "bin: test 1 version 2" >one.bin &&
 	echo "bin: test number 2 version 2" >>two.bin &&
+	ln -sf two.bin symlink.bin &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number2 git commit -a -m Second --date="2010-01-01 20:00:00"
 '
 
@@ -78,4 +80,47 @@ test_expect_success 'blame from previous revision' '
 	test_cmp expected result
 '
 
+cat >expected <<EOF
+(Number2 2010-01-01 20:00:00 +0000 1) two.bin
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'blame with --no-textconv (on symlink)' '
+	git blame --no-textconv symlink.bin >blame &&
+	find_blame <blame >result &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+# fails with '...symlink.bin is not "binary" file'
+test_expect_failure 'blame --textconv (on symlink)' '
+	git blame --textconv symlink.bin >blame &&
+	find_blame <blame >result &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+# cp two.bin three.bin  and make small tweak
+# (this will direct blame -C -C three.bin to consider two.bin and symlink.bin)
+test_expect_success 'make another new commit' '
+	cat >three.bin <<\EOF &&
+bin: test number 2
+bin: test number 2 version 2
+bin: test number 2 version 3
+bin: test number 3
+EOF
+	git add three.bin &&
+	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number4 git commit -a -m Fourth --date="2010-01-01 23:00:00"
+'
+
+# fails with '...symlink.bin is not "binary" file'
+test_expect_failure 'blame on last commit (-C -C, symlink)' '
+	git blame -C -C three.bin >blame &&
+	find_blame <blame >result &&
+	cat >expected <<\EOF &&
+(Number1 2010-01-01 18:00:00 +0000 1) converted: test number 2
+(Number2 2010-01-01 20:00:00 +0000 2) converted: test number 2 version 2
+(Number3 2010-01-01 22:00:00 +0000 3) converted: test number 2 version 3
+(Number4 2010-01-01 23:00:00 +0000 4) converted: test number 3
+EOF
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
index 413d623..f747c05 100755
--- a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ chmod +x helper
 
 test_expect_success 'setup ' '
 	echo "bin: test" >one.bin &&
+	ln -s one.bin symlink.bin &&
 	git add . &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number1 git commit -a -m First --date="2010-01-01 18:00:00" &&
 	echo "bin: test version 2" >one.bin &&
@@ -68,4 +69,30 @@ test_expect_success 'cat-file --textconv on previous commit' '
 	git cat-file --textconv HEAD^:one.bin >result &&
 	test_cmp expected result
 '
+
+test_expect_success 'cat-file without --textconv (symlink)' '
+	git cat-file blob :symlink.bin >result &&
+	printf "%s" "one.bin" >expected
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+
+# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
+test_expect_failure 'cat-file --textconv on index (symlink)' '
+	! git cat-file --textconv :symlink.bin 2>result &&
+	cat >expected <<\EOF &&
+fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on :symlink.bin
+EOF
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
+test_expect_failure 'cat-file --textconv on HEAD (symlink)' '
+	! git cat-file --textconv HEAD:symlink.bin 2>result &&
+	cat >expected <<EOF &&
+fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on HEAD:symlink.bin
+EOF
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.7.3.rc2

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Matthieu Moy]

Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> writes:

> (Description partly by Matthieu Moy)

Better put such statements at the end, to avoid distracting the reader.

> ~~~~
>
> NOTE: git diff doesn't try to textconv the pathnames, it runs the
> textual diff without textconv, which is the expected behavior.

It's not clear whether this is intended to stay in the commit message.
If not, it should go below the ---. If yes, then I'd incorporate this
into the message itself. The ~~~~ and NOTE look odd.

For example (in next patch):

| Instead get the mode from either worktree, index, .git, or origin
| entries when blaming and pass it to textconv_object() as context.
| 
| The reason to do it is not to run textconv filters on symlinks
+ (just like "git diff" already does).

Anyway, I'm bikeshedding. With or without these remarks,

Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Kirill Smelkov]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> writes:
> 
> > (Description partly by Matthieu Moy)
> 
> Better put such statements at the end, to avoid distracting the reader.

Ok

> > ~~~~
> >
> > NOTE: git diff doesn't try to textconv the pathnames, it runs the
> > textual diff without textconv, which is the expected behavior.
> 
> It's not clear whether this is intended to stay in the commit message.
> If not, it should go below the ---. If yes, then I'd incorporate this
> into the message itself. The ~~~~ and NOTE look odd.

I know about --- and that content after it and up to patch itself goes
to /dev/null. The text here was intended to stay in the commit message,
and ~~~~ served as a separator in that message (git commit hook merges
several blank lines into one, so one can't separate text parts with
several empty lines, that's why I used this separator).

If it's ugly, let's omit it - I don't insist, but i don't understand why
'NOTE:' looks odd?


And also, do you remember your first question to this series? It was
about does git diff --textconv misbehaves too or not. So I consider this
note is important to put into description, and isn't the right place for
such a note this patch, where show tests that demonstrate fauilures?

This note clearly says "git diff is not affected, that's why we don't
write new tests for it".

Something like that...

> 
> For example (in next patch):
> 
> | Instead get the mode from either worktree, index, .git, or origin
> | entries when blaming and pass it to textconv_object() as context.
> | 
> | The reason to do it is not to run textconv filters on symlinks
> + (just like "git diff" already does).

See above about my rationale on the note place.

> Anyway, I'm bikeshedding. With or without these remarks,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>

Thanks :)

Is it for this one patch, or does it apply to the whole series?


Thanks,
Kirill

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Matthieu Moy]

Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> writes:

> I know about --- and that content after it and up to patch itself goes
> to /dev/null. The text here was intended to stay in the commit message,
> and ~~~~ served as a separator in that message (git commit hook merges
> several blank lines into one, so one can't separate text parts with
> several empty lines, that's why I used this separator).
>
> If it's ugly, let's omit it - I don't insist, but i don't understand why
> 'NOTE:' looks odd?

That was especially about the combination of both, but I don't really
care. Consider my remarks as food for thoughts, not real objections.

> This note clearly says "git diff is not affected, that's why we don't
> write new tests for it".

I disagree with the implication. Git diff is not affected because it
was done right, but behaving correctly doesn't mean you don't need
tests. Checking the behavior of diff with tests wouldn't harm (but
that's not serious not to do it).

>> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Is it for this one patch, or does it apply to the whole series?

To the serie, yes.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Jeff King]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:18:11PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> > This note clearly says "git diff is not affected, that's why we don't
> > write new tests for it".
> 
> I disagree with the implication. Git diff is not affected because it
> was done right, but behaving correctly doesn't mean you don't need
> tests. Checking the behavior of diff with tests wouldn't harm (but
> that's not serious not to do it).

Actually, there is some breakage in "git diff" with userdiffs, just not
for textconv (but the fix covers both, so the problem is sort of a
superset).  I'm about to send a patch that has some tests, so don't
worry about them for this series.

-Peff

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

[Kirill Smelkov]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:18:11PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> writes:
> 
> > I know about --- and that content after it and up to patch itself goes
> > to /dev/null. The text here was intended to stay in the commit message,
> > and ~~~~ served as a separator in that message (git commit hook merges
> > several blank lines into one, so one can't separate text parts with
> > several empty lines, that's why I used this separator).
> >
> > If it's ugly, let's omit it - I don't insist, but i don't understand why
> > 'NOTE:' looks odd?
> 
> That was especially about the combination of both, but I don't really
> care. Consider my remarks as food for thoughts, not real objections.

Ok

> > This note clearly says "git diff is not affected, that's why we don't
> > write new tests for it".
> 
> I disagree with the implication. Git diff is not affected because it
> was done right, but behaving correctly doesn't mean you don't need
> tests. Checking the behavior of diff with tests wouldn't harm (but
> that's not serious not to do it).

Yes, my implication was not correct, and I agree tests woudn't harm. But
as Jeff already wrote in another mail, he'll test-cover the diff case,
so I'll let myself to be lazy here (thanks Jeff!) :)

> >> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> > Is it for this one patch, or does it apply to the whole series?
> 
> To the serie, yes.

Thanks. Will repost v3 soon. Hopefuly it will be ok to merge it then.

Kirill

[PATCH v2 3/3] blame,cat-file --textconv: Don't assume mode is ``S_IFREF | 0664''

[Kirill Smelkov]

Instead get the mode from either worktree, index, .git, or origin
entries when blaming and pass it to textconv_object() as context.

The reason to do it is not to run textconv filters on symlinks.

Cc: Axel Bonnet <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
---

v2:

 o Thanks to Matthieu and Jeff got a bit more sure I'm not doing stupid things,
   so
 o My XXX were removed, and the patch is no longer an RFC

Otherwise no changes.

 builtin.h                    |    2 +-
 builtin/blame.c              |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 builtin/cat-file.c           |    2 +-
 sha1_name.c                  |    2 ++
 t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh    |    6 ++----
 t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh |    6 ++----
 6 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index 0398d24..9bf69ee 100644
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ void finish_copy_notes_for_rewrite(struct notes_rewrite_cfg *c);
 
 extern int check_pager_config(const char *cmd);
 
-extern int textconv_object(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, char **buf, unsigned long *buf_size);
+extern int textconv_object(const char *path, unsigned mode, const unsigned char *sha1, char **buf, unsigned long *buf_size);
 
 extern int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 1015354..f5fccc1 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct origin {
 	struct commit *commit;
 	mmfile_t file;
 	unsigned char blob_sha1[20];
+	unsigned mode;
 	char path[FLEX_ARRAY];
 };
 
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ struct origin {
  * Return 1 if the conversion succeeds, 0 otherwise.
  */
 int textconv_object(const char *path,
+		    unsigned mode,
 		    const unsigned char *sha1,
 		    char **buf,
 		    unsigned long *buf_size)
@@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ int textconv_object(const char *path,
 	struct userdiff_driver *textconv;
 
 	df = alloc_filespec(path);
-	fill_filespec(df, sha1, S_IFREG | 0664);
+	fill_filespec(df, sha1, mode);
 	textconv = get_textconv(df);
 	if (!textconv) {
 		free_filespec(df);
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ static void fill_origin_blob(struct diff_options *opt,
 
 		num_read_blob++;
 		if (DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV) &&
-		    textconv_object(o->path, o->blob_sha1, &file->ptr, &file_size))
+		    textconv_object(o->path, o->mode, o->blob_sha1, &file->ptr, &file_size))
 			;
 		else
 			file->ptr = read_sha1_file(o->blob_sha1, &type, &file_size);
@@ -313,21 +315,23 @@ static struct origin *get_origin(struct scoreboard *sb,
  * for an origin is also used to pass the blame for the entire file to
  * the parent to detect the case where a child's blob is identical to
  * that of its parent's.
+ *
+ * This also fills origin->mode for corresponding tree path.
  */
-static int fill_blob_sha1(struct origin *origin)
+static int fill_blob_sha1_and_mode(struct origin *origin)
 {
-	unsigned mode;
 	if (!is_null_sha1(origin->blob_sha1))
 		return 0;
 	if (get_tree_entry(origin->commit->object.sha1,
 			   origin->path,
-			   origin->blob_sha1, &mode))
+			   origin->blob_sha1, &origin->mode))
 		goto error_out;
 	if (sha1_object_info(origin->blob_sha1, NULL) != OBJ_BLOB)
 		goto error_out;
 	return 0;
  error_out:
 	hashclr(origin->blob_sha1);
+	origin->mode = S_IFINVALID;
 	return -1;
 }
 
@@ -360,12 +364,14 @@ static struct origin *find_origin(struct scoreboard *sb,
 			/*
 			 * If the origin was newly created (i.e. get_origin
 			 * would call make_origin if none is found in the
-			 * scoreboard), it does not know the blob_sha1,
+			 * scoreboard), it does not know the blob_sha1/mode,
 			 * so copy it.  Otherwise porigin was in the
-			 * scoreboard and already knows blob_sha1.
+			 * scoreboard and already knows blob_sha1/mode.
 			 */
-			if (porigin->refcnt == 1)
+			if (porigin->refcnt == 1) {
 				hashcpy(porigin->blob_sha1, cached->blob_sha1);
+				porigin->mode = cached->mode;
+			}
 			return porigin;
 		}
 		/* otherwise it was not very useful; free it */
@@ -400,6 +406,7 @@ static struct origin *find_origin(struct scoreboard *sb,
 		/* The path is the same as parent */
 		porigin = get_origin(sb, parent, origin->path);
 		hashcpy(porigin->blob_sha1, origin->blob_sha1);
+		porigin->mode = origin->mode;
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Since origin->path is a pathspec, if the parent
@@ -425,6 +432,7 @@ static struct origin *find_origin(struct scoreboard *sb,
 		case 'M':
 			porigin = get_origin(sb, parent, origin->path);
 			hashcpy(porigin->blob_sha1, p->one->sha1);
+			porigin->mode = p->one->mode;
 			break;
 		case 'A':
 		case 'T':
@@ -444,6 +452,7 @@ static struct origin *find_origin(struct scoreboard *sb,
 
 		cached = make_origin(porigin->commit, porigin->path);
 		hashcpy(cached->blob_sha1, porigin->blob_sha1);
+		cached->mode = porigin->mode;
 		parent->util = cached;
 	}
 	return porigin;
@@ -486,6 +495,7 @@ static struct origin *find_rename(struct scoreboard *sb,
 		    !strcmp(p->two->path, origin->path)) {
 			porigin = get_origin(sb, parent, p->one->path);
 			hashcpy(porigin->blob_sha1, p->one->sha1);
+			porigin->mode = p->one->mode;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
@@ -1099,6 +1109,7 @@ static int find_copy_in_parent(struct scoreboard *sb,
 
 			norigin = get_origin(sb, parent, p->one->path);
 			hashcpy(norigin->blob_sha1, p->one->sha1);
+			norigin->mode = p->one->mode;
 			fill_origin_blob(&sb->revs->diffopt, norigin, &file_p);
 			if (!file_p.ptr)
 				continue;
@@ -2075,7 +2086,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt,
 		switch (st.st_mode & S_IFMT) {
 		case S_IFREG:
 			if (DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV) &&
-			    textconv_object(read_from, null_sha1, &buf.buf, &buf_len))
+			    textconv_object(read_from, mode, null_sha1, &buf.buf, &buf_len))
 				buf.len = buf_len;
 			else if (strbuf_read_file(&buf, read_from, st.st_size) != st.st_size)
 				die_errno("cannot open or read '%s'", read_from);
@@ -2455,11 +2466,11 @@ parse_done:
 	}
 	else {
 		o = get_origin(&sb, sb.final, path);
-		if (fill_blob_sha1(o))
+		if (fill_blob_sha1_and_mode(o))
 			die("no such path %s in %s", path, final_commit_name);
 
 		if (DIFF_OPT_TST(&sb.revs->diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV) &&
-		    textconv_object(path, o->blob_sha1, (char **) &sb.final_buf,
+		    textconv_object(path, o->mode, o->blob_sha1, (char **) &sb.final_buf,
 				    &sb.final_buf_size))
 			;
 		else
diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
index 76ec3fe..94632db 100644
--- a/builtin/cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int cat_one_file(int opt, const char *exp_type, const char *obj_name)
 			die("git cat-file --textconv %s: <object> must be <sha1:path>",
 			    obj_name);
 
-		if (!textconv_object(obj_context.path, sha1, &buf, &size))
+		if (!textconv_object(obj_context.path, obj_context.mode, sha1, &buf, &size))
 			die("git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on %s",
 			    obj_name);
 		break;
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 7b7e617..4458fe8 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1,
 		struct cache_entry *ce;
 		int pos;
 		if (namelen > 2 && name[1] == '/')
+			/* don't need mode for commit */
 			return get_sha1_oneline(name + 2, sha1);
 		if (namelen < 3 ||
 		    name[2] != ':' ||
@@ -1095,6 +1096,7 @@ int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1,
 				break;
 			if (ce_stage(ce) == stage) {
 				hashcpy(sha1, ce->sha1);
+				oc->mode = ce->ce_mode;
 				return 0;
 			}
 			pos++;
diff --git a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
index 7d42e96..400d9f1 100755
--- a/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ test_expect_success 'blame with --no-textconv (on symlink)' '
 	test_cmp expected result
 '
 
-# fails with '...symlink.bin is not "binary" file'
-test_expect_failure 'blame --textconv (on symlink)' '
+test_expect_success 'blame --textconv (on symlink)' '
 	git blame --textconv symlink.bin >blame &&
 	find_blame <blame >result &&
 	test_cmp expected result
@@ -110,8 +109,7 @@ EOF
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number4 git commit -a -m Fourth --date="2010-01-01 23:00:00"
 '
 
-# fails with '...symlink.bin is not "binary" file'
-test_expect_failure 'blame on last commit (-C -C, symlink)' '
+test_expect_success 'blame on last commit (-C -C, symlink)' '
 	git blame -C -C three.bin >blame &&
 	find_blame <blame >result &&
 	cat >expected <<\EOF &&
diff --git a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
index f747c05..40e4af5 100755
--- a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cat-file without --textconv (symlink)' '
 '
 
 
-# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
-test_expect_failure 'cat-file --textconv on index (symlink)' '
+test_expect_success 'cat-file --textconv on index (symlink)' '
 	! git cat-file --textconv :symlink.bin 2>result &&
 	cat >expected <<\EOF &&
 fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on :symlink.bin
@@ -86,8 +85,7 @@ EOF
 	test_cmp expected result
 '
 
-# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
-test_expect_failure 'cat-file --textconv on HEAD (symlink)' '
+test_expect_success 'cat-file --textconv on HEAD (symlink)' '
 	! git cat-file --textconv HEAD:symlink.bin 2>result &&
 	cat >expected <<EOF &&
 fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on HEAD:symlink.bin
-- 
1.7.3.rc2