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fix git repo detection on symlinks (#11732)
Skyler Hawthorne 2024-10-04
parent 57ec3b7 · commit 02b6f14
-rw-r--r--helix-vcs/src/git.rs14
-rw-r--r--helix-vcs/src/git/test.rs45
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/helix-vcs/src/git.rs b/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
index 78e58243..48220f4d 100644
--- a/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
+++ b/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
@@ -22,18 +22,24 @@ use crate::FileChange;
#[cfg(test)]
mod test;
+#[inline]
+fn get_repo_dir(file: &Path) -> Result<&Path> {
+ file.parent().context("file has no parent directory")
+}
+
pub fn get_diff_base(file: &Path) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
debug_assert!(!file.exists() || file.is_file());
debug_assert!(file.is_absolute());
+ let file = gix::path::realpath(file).context("resolve symlinks")?;
// TODO cache repository lookup
- let repo_dir = file.parent().context("file has no parent directory")?;
+ let repo_dir = get_repo_dir(&file)?;
let repo = open_repo(repo_dir)
.context("failed to open git repo")?
.to_thread_local();
let head = repo.head_commit()?;
- let file_oid = find_file_in_commit(&repo, &head, file)?;
+ let file_oid = find_file_in_commit(&repo, &head, &file)?;
let file_object = repo.find_object(file_oid)?;
let data = file_object.detach().data;
@@ -56,7 +62,9 @@ pub fn get_diff_base(file: &Path) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
pub fn get_current_head_name(file: &Path) -> Result<Arc<ArcSwap<Box<str>>>> {
debug_assert!(!file.exists() || file.is_file());
debug_assert!(file.is_absolute());
- let repo_dir = file.parent().context("file has no parent directory")?;
+ let file = gix::path::realpath(file).context("resolve symlinks")?;
+
+ let repo_dir = get_repo_dir(&file)?;
let repo = open_repo(repo_dir)
.context("failed to open git repo")?
.to_thread_local();
diff --git a/helix-vcs/src/git/test.rs b/helix-vcs/src/git/test.rs
index 95ff10b2..164040f5 100644
--- a/helix-vcs/src/git/test.rs
+++ b/helix-vcs/src/git/test.rs
@@ -98,9 +98,13 @@ fn directory() {
assert!(git::get_diff_base(&dir).is_err());
}
-/// Test that `get_file_head` does not return content for a symlink.
-/// This is important to correctly cover cases where a symlink is removed and replaced by a file.
-/// If the contents of the symlink object were returned a diff between a path and the actual file would be produced (bad ui).
+/// Test that `get_diff_base` resolves symlinks so that the same diff base is
+/// used as the target file.
+///
+/// This is important to correctly cover cases where a symlink is removed and
+/// replaced by a file. If the contents of the symlink object were returned
+/// a diff between a literal file path and the actual file content would be
+/// produced (bad ui).
#[cfg(any(unix, windows))]
#[test]
fn symlink() {
@@ -108,14 +112,41 @@ fn symlink() {
use std::os::unix::fs::symlink;
#[cfg(not(unix))]
use std::os::windows::fs::symlink_file as symlink;
+
let temp_git = empty_git_repo();
let file = temp_git.path().join("file.txt");
- let contents = b"foo".as_slice();
- File::create(&file).unwrap().write_all(contents).unwrap();
+ let contents = Vec::from(b"foo");
+ File::create(&file).unwrap().write_all(&contents).unwrap();
let file_link = temp_git.path().join("file_link.txt");
+
symlink("file.txt", &file_link).unwrap();
+ create_commit(temp_git.path(), true);
+
+ assert_eq!(git::get_diff_base(&file_link).unwrap(), contents);
+ assert_eq!(git::get_diff_base(&file).unwrap(), contents);
+}
+
+/// Test that `get_diff_base` returns content when the file is a symlink to
+/// another file that is in a git repo, but the symlink itself is not.
+#[cfg(any(unix, windows))]
+#[test]
+fn symlink_to_git_repo() {
+ #[cfg(unix)]
+ use std::os::unix::fs::symlink;
+ #[cfg(not(unix))]
+ use std::os::windows::fs::symlink_file as symlink;
+
+ let temp_dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("create temp dir");
+ let temp_git = empty_git_repo();
+ let file = temp_git.path().join("file.txt");
+ let contents = Vec::from(b"foo");
+ File::create(&file).unwrap().write_all(&contents).unwrap();
create_commit(temp_git.path(), true);
- assert!(git::get_diff_base(&file_link).is_err());
- assert_eq!(git::get_diff_base(&file).unwrap(), Vec::from(contents));
+
+ let file_link = temp_dir.path().join("file_link.txt");
+ symlink(&file, &file_link).unwrap();
+
+ assert_eq!(git::get_diff_base(&file_link).unwrap(), contents);
+ assert_eq!(git::get_diff_base(&file).unwrap(), contents);
}