On 09/27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brandon Williams <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > A normal request to git-daemon is structured as
> > "command path/to/repo\0host=..\0" and due to a bug in an old version of
> > git-daemon 73bb33a94 (daemon: Strictly parse the "extra arg" part of the
> > command, 2009-06-04) we aren't able to place any extra args (separated
> > by NULs) besides the host.
>
> It's a bit unclear if that commit _introduced_ a bug, or just
> noticed an old bug and documented it in its log message. How does
> that commit impact the versons of Git that the updated code is
> capable of interracting with?
You're right, after reading it again it isn't clear. I'll change this
to indicate that the commit is a fix to a bug and that the fix doesn't
allow us to place any additional args.
>
> > +static void parse_extra_args(struct hostinfo *hi, struct argv_array *env,
> > + char *extra_args, int buflen)
> > +{
> > + const char *end = extra_args + buflen;
> > + struct strbuf git_protocol = STRBUF_INIT;
> > +
> > + /* First look for the host argument */
> > + extra_args = parse_host_arg(hi, extra_args, buflen);
> > +
> > + /* Look for additional arguments places after a second NUL byte */
> > + for (; extra_args < end; extra_args += strlen(extra_args) + 1) {
> > + const char *arg = extra_args;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Parse the extra arguments, adding most to 'git_protocol'
> > + * which will be used to set the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' envvar in the
> > + * service that will be run.
> > + *
> > + * If there ends up being a particular arg in the future that
> > + * git-daemon needs to parse specificly (like the 'host' arg)
> > + * then it can be parsed here and not added to 'git_protocol'.
> > + */
> > + if (*arg) {
> > + if (git_protocol.len > 0)
> > + strbuf_addch(&git_protocol, ':');
> > + strbuf_addstr(&git_protocol, arg);
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (git_protocol.len > 0)
> > + argv_array_pushf(env, GIT_PROTOCOL_ENVIRONMENT "=%s",
> > + git_protocol.buf);
> > + strbuf_release(&git_protocol);
> > }
--
Brandon Williams
