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When collapsing a full index to a sparse index, the recursive
convert_to_sparse_rec() walks the cache tree to determine if any
of the cache tree entries can be used to represent a sparse directory.

As it goes, the method tracks how many cache entries are being represented
by the cache tree entry. The cache tree node's 'entry_count' represents how
many cache entries are covered by the node.

However, this value can be negative, representing that a node is invalid,
and is no longer reflecting the number of cache entries fit within. This can
happen when the user uses 'git add --intent-to-add' to mark an untracked
file with the intent-to-add bit to avoid committing without finishing the
add.

When such an intent-to-add file exists and the sparse-checkout changes to no
longer contain its parent directory, this leads to a segfault. Two tests are
added to demonstrate this fault:

* One test is added to t3705-add-sparse-checkout.sh to demonstrate
  how 'git add' behaves with sparse-checkout.

* One test is added to t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to demonstrate
  the interaction with the sparse index and to compare it directly to how
  the commands behave with a full index or no sparse-checkout.

The fix involves engaging with the loop that iterates over all cache entries
within the parent cache tree node (from 'start' to 'end') and to set the
'span' variable slightly earlier. At this point, the cache entry is for a
file that is at least one directory deeper than the current cache tree node.
The path is also not in the sparse-checkout because of an earlier
path_in_sparse_checkout() check above the loop. So we are trying to collapse
this directory by recursively calling convert_to_sparse_rec() over that span
of entries, but the negative value prevents us from predicting that number
without scanning.

Theoretically, we could scan to find the range of entries that match this
directory and determine if they truly do have an intent-to-add bit and then
collapse as many child trees as possible (the ones with valid cache tree
nodes). That would be a non-trivial change for performance-only benefit.
Since this combination of the intent-to-add and sparse index features has so
far gone undetected by real users, this scenario is unlikely to be worth
such a change.

We settle for the simplest change that prevents a bug: don't try to collapse
a node that is invalid for this reason. The tests that would demonstrate a
segfault now pass. Further, they demonstrate that the intent-to-add bit
persists in the index file after changing the sparse-checkout scope. The
test in t1092 demonstrates how some sparse directories could be collapsed
further with a more involved fix, if so desired in the future.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_commit_action() reads as a predicate that decides whether a commit
is shown or ignored, but for a line-level log without parent rewriting
it also calls line_log_process_ranges_arbitrary_commit(), which
mutates the tracked line ranges.  That hidden side effect makes it unsafe
to evaluate ahead of the walk, the way a lookahead would.

get_commit_action() was split out of simplify_commit() in beb5af4
(graph API: fix bug in graph_is_interesting(), 2009-08-18) as the
show/ignore decision minus the parent rewriting, so the graph renderer
could reuse it; line-level log later routed its filtering through it as
well, in 3cb9d2b (line-log: more responsive, incremental 'git log -L',
2020-05-11).  Besides simplify_commit(), the walk driver,
graph_is_interesting() is its only other caller, and it runs only under
--graph, which sets rewrite_parents and therefore want_ancestry(); the
"-L without ancestry" branch that holds the side effect never fires
there, so it is dormant today.

The line-level processing folds a commit's tracked ranges onto its
parents, which must happen even for a commit that get_commit_action()
filters from the output, or the ranges never reach the parents.  Move it
to simplify_commit() and run it before get_commit_action(), gated by
get_commit_action()'s leading checks (already shown, uninteresting, and
the like) so a commit ignored by those is not folded, as before; factor
those checks out as commit_early_ignore().  get_commit_action() is then
side-effect free.

commit_early_ignore() runs twice on the -L path, once for that gate and
once inside get_commit_action(), but it reads only object flags and pack
membership, disjoint from the TREESAME flag the fold sets, so the repeat
is harmless.

Add a "line-log-peek" subcommand to the revision-walking test helper
that evaluates get_commit_action() on a commit the walk has not reached
yet, plus a t4211 check that the call leaves the commit's flags
unchanged.  The flags are compared rather than the commit list because
add_line_range() merges ranges by union, which is idempotent, so the
side effect never changed which commits a linear -L history shows.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
…-cached-unmerged-more

* jk/diff-relative-cached-unmerged:
  diff-lib: add idx/tree sanity check to oneway_diff
  diff: ignore unmerged paths outside prefix with --relative --cached
The comment above oneway_diff() claims that the callback must advance
o->pos to skip index entries it has already processed. That stopped
being true in da165f4 (unpack-trees.c: prepare for looking ahead in
the index, 2010-01-07), which moved that bookkeeping into
unpack_trees().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 8174627 (diff-lib: ignore paths that are outside $cwd if
--relative asked, 2021-08-22) taught run_diff_files() to skip entries
outside the requested prefix before processing them.

Do the same in oneway_diff(), which handles the diff-index code path.
The lower-level diff queue functions already reject such paths, but
checking here avoids unnecessary work and keeps them out of every
do_oneway_diff() code path.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The batch mode of cat-file needs to know the object's type in order to
print the contents (because it decides whether to stream or not based on
object type). The default batch output contains %(objecttype), so we get
the type info automatically. But when it doesn't, we have to ask for it
explicitly.

In the --batch code path, we check while setting up the object_info
struct whether we will print the contents, and if so set "typep" to get
the value. This comes from 6554dfa (cat-file: handle --batch format
with missing type/size, 2013-12-12).

But later we added a --batch-command mode, which does not do the same
trick. The decision about whether to retrieve the contents is made
per-command (a "contents" vs "info" command), so we can't decide when
building the object_info originally. As a result, asking for:

  echo "contents HEAD" | git cat-file --batch-command="%(objectname)"

will fail the assertion in print_object_or_die() that the type was
actually filled in.

We can fix it by tweaking the object_info on the fly as we receive each
command. But we should be careful to restore it afterwards; otherwise a
sequence of commands like:

  contents $one
  info $two
  info $three

will pay the type-lookup price for $two and $three when it does not need
to. This wouldn't be incorrect, but just slightly inefficient (and hence
there are no tests for that part, because the externally-visible
behavior is the same).

Reported-by: Alan Stokes <alan@source.dev>
Helped-by: Pablo Sabater <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default the setting 'merge.defaultToUpstream' for git-merge(1) is set
to 'true', which means when `git merge` is invoked with no arguments it
merges the upstream branch configured for the current branch.

With this configuration set to 'true', setup_with_upstream() is called.
That function allocates an array of arguments and hands it back to
cmd_merge() via its `argv` parameter. This array is never freed, so
cmd_merge() leaks it on every invocation.

Track the allocated array in a separate variable and free it at the end.

The leak has been present since 93e535a (merge: merge with the
default upstream branch without argument, 2011-03-24). Although the leak
sanitizer was enabled for tests in fc1ddf4 (t: remove
TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations, 2024-11-21), it went unnoticed
because no test calls `git merge` without arguments, exercising the
default-to-upstream path. Add such a test in t7600, which fails under
the leak sanitizer without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`bitmap_position()` only returns a negative value when an object is not
present in the bitmap index.

In `find_objects()`, we have added a check (11d45a6) to avoid
processing a root whose reachability is already represented by the base
bitmap, but accidentally uses `pos > 0`. Consequently, it never performs
the membership test for an object at position zero.

If that object has an individual reachability bitmap, we unnecessarily
OR that bitmap into the base again. Otherwise, we add the object to the
not-mapped list, only for the subsequent pass to recognize that it is
already present. The latter pass correctly treats all non-negative
positions as valid, so this does not change the resulting object set,
but an off-by-one edge case.

Treat position zero as valid by changing the condition to `pos >= 0`.

The existing pseudo-merge traversal test exercises this case. Its
position-zero commit is presented through multiple roots. Before this
change, each occurrence is counted as a bitmap hit; afterwards, only
the first occurrence is counted. Assert the resulting hit count to
cover the boundary condition.

Also cover the non-pseudo-merge case by passing `HEAD` twice. The first
occurrence initializes the base from its stored bitmap, and the second
must recognize that position zero is already present.

Helped-by: Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: David Lin <davidlin@stripe.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code path that deals with relative paths in the 'diff-lib' has
been cleaned up.

* jk/diff-relative-cached-unmerged-more:
  diff-lib: skip paths outside prefix in oneway_diff()
  diff-lib: drop stale comment about advancing o->pos
The get_commit_action() function has been refactored to be a pure
predicate by moving the side-effecting line-level log range folding to
simplify_commit().  This ensures that evaluating a commit's action
before the walk reaches it does not prematurely mutate its tracked
line ranges, making it safer for potential lookahead evaluations.

* mm/revision-pure-get-commit-action:
  revision: make get_commit_action() a pure predicate
'git cat-file --batch-command' that asked for 'contents' without
'type' segfaults, which has been corrected.

* jk/cat-file-batch-wo-type-fix:
  cat-file: handle content request for --batch-command without type
A memory leak in 'git merge' when run without arguments (which
triggers the default-to-upstream path) has been fixed.  A test has
been added to cover this case.

* tc/merge-default-to-upstream-leakfix:
  merge: fix leak with merge.defaultToUpstream
A boundary case check in reachability bitmap traversal has been
corrected to properly handle the object at position zero, which was
previously skipped, leading to redundant bitmap loading.

* dl/pack-bitmap-position-zero:
  pack-bitmap: handle objects at bitmap position zero
A crash in the 'sparse-index' collapse code when encountering an
invalidated cache-tree node (due to an intent-to-add path) has been
fixed by avoiding collapsing such subtrees.

* ds/sparse-index-ita-crash:
  sparse-index: avoid crash on intent-to-add entry outside the cone
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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