`git add -p` behaves incorrectly if modified file contains any wildcard
character. Consider 'random.diff' (attached). For this, interactive
'add' would first ask to add hunk with two diff headers (or with some
"random" header at the end):
$ git add -p
diff --git a/Random * b/Random *
index 01e79c3..01f03ff 100644
--- a/Random *
+++ b/Random *
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
1
+ a
2
+ b
3
diff --git a/Random Crap b/Random Crap
index 01e79c3..b4373d5 100644
--- a/Random Crap
+++ b/Random Crap
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,j,J,g,s,e,?]? y
Then it will ask for some irrelevant hunk:
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
1
+ whoa
2
+ dude
3
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,K,g,s,e,?]? y
…and, if confirmed, apply it to the wildcard-named file instead of what
was confirmed for staging before:
$ git diff --cached
diff --git a/Random * b/Random *
index 01e79c3..283ac91 100644
--- a/Random *
+++ b/Random *
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
1
+ whoa
2
+ dude
3
Then one can just repeat this over and over again (unless safely named
files are resolved first):
$ git add -p
diff --git a/Random * b/Random *
index 283ac91..04c92f1 100644
--- a/Random *
+++ b/Random *
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
- whoa
+ a
2
- dude
+ b
3
diff --git a/Random Crap b/Random Crap
index 01e79c3..283ac91 100644
--- a/Random Crap
+++ b/Random Crap
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,j,J,g,s,e,?]?
The problem is that `git-diff-files` does some globbing on the 'path'
arguments on its own and has no option to disable that (and
`git-add--interactive`'s `run_cmd_pipe` already handles all other sorts
of unsafe characters like spaces and backticks well).
$ strace -f -e trace=execve git add -p
…
[pid 1713] execve("/usr/lib/git-core/git",
["git", "diff-files", "-p", "--", "Random *"],
[/* 36 vars */]) = 0
…
$ git diff-files -- 'Random *'
:100644 100644 … … M Random *
:100644 100644 … … M Random Crap
For all the eager people (although I doubt if anybody else is lazy
enough to not bother with file names like these), this could be easily
worked around like this:
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index ee3d812..358d877 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -2,3 +2,3 @@
-use 5.008;
+use 5.014;
use strict;
@@ -761,3 +761,5 @@ sub parse_diff {
}
- my @diff = run_cmd_pipe("git", @diff_cmd, "--", $path);
+ my @diff = run_cmd_pipe("git", @diff_cmd, "--", (
+ $path =~ s#[\[*?]#\\$&#gr
+ ));
my @colored = ();
(Although a `git-diff-files` option is clearly a better solution that
would cover tools other than `git-add--interactive` as well.)
diff --git a/Random * b/Random *
index 01e79c3..04c92f1 100644
--- a/Random *
+++ b/Random *
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
1
+ a
2
+ b
3
diff --git a/Random Crap b/Random Crap
index 01e79c3..283ac91 100644
--- a/Random Crap
+++ b/Random Crap
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
1
+ whoa
2
+ dude
3