link_alt_odb_entries() will be called recursively if alternates has
valid object store paths, and to avoid nesting too deep, the
recursive depth is limited to 5, this limitation is reasonable and
safe for dead-loop reference situation.
There is another limitation in this function to only permit the 1st
level alternates has relative paths, but there is no foreseeable
greater risk using relative paths in 2nd/3rd... level alternates than
using absolute paths, in addition to we already have max depth 5
limitation, we can safely remove this limitation.
Moreover removing this limitation will make below two usage workable.
usage1: base-repos has relative path in the alternates
%>git clone --reference base-repos src dest
usage2: src2 has relative path to point src1, src1 has relative path
to point src
%>git clone src2 dest
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <jason77.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sha1_file.c | 13 ++++---------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index f7c3408..4130ca0 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -332,15 +332,10 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, const char *ep, int sep,
}
while (cp < ep && *cp != sep)
cp++;
- if (last != cp) {
- if (!is_absolute_path(last) && depth) {
- error("%s: ignoring relative alternate object store %s",
- relative_base, last);
- } else {
- link_alt_odb_entry(last, cp - last,
- relative_base, depth);
- }
- }
+ if (last != cp)
+ link_alt_odb_entry(last, cp - last,
+ relative_base, depth);
+
while (cp < ep && *cp == sep)
cp++;
last = cp;
--
1.7.6
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