Re: [PATCH] config: don't segfault when given --path with a missing value

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 08:11:50AM -0800, Jeff King wrote:

> Hmm, actually, we should probably propagate the error (I was thinking
> for some reason this was in the listing code, but it is really about
> getting a specific variable, and that variable does not have a sane
> format. We'll already have printed the non-bool error, so we should
> probably die. So more like:
> 
>   if (git_config_pathname(&vptr, key_, value_) < 0)
>           return -1;
>   must_free_vptr = 1;

You may want to squash in this test, which triggers your original
problem, but also demonstrates the use of uninitialized memory (although
you need to run under valgrind or similar to reliably notice it).

diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
index e127f35..7c4c372 100755
--- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
@@ -803,6 +803,11 @@ test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'get --path copes with unset $HOME' '
 	test_cmp expect result
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'get --path barfs on boolean variable' '
+	echo "[path]bool" >.git/config &&
+	test_must_fail git config --get --path path.bool
+'
+
 cat > expect << EOF
 [quote]
 	leading = " test"

-Peff