object-name: reject trees found in the index

The get_oid_with_context_1() method is used when parsing revision
arguments. One particular case is to take a ":<path>" string and search
the index for the given path.

In the case of a sparse index, this might find a sparse directory entry,
in which case the contained object is a tree. In the case of a full
index, this search within the index would fail.

In order to maintain identical return state as in a full index, inspect
the discovered cache entry to see if it is a sparse directory and reject
it. This requires being careful around the only_to_die option to be sure
we die only at the correct time.

This changes the behavior of 'git show :<sparse-dir>', but does not
bring it entirely into alignment with a full index case. It specifically
hits the wrong error message within diagnose_invalid_index_path(). That
error message will be corrected in a future change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/object-name.c b/object-name.c
index f0e327f91f..2dc5d2549b 100644
--- a/object-name.c
+++ b/object-name.c
@@ -1881,6 +1881,20 @@ static char *resolve_relative_path(struct repository *r, const char *rel)
 			   rel);
 }
 
+static int reject_tree_in_index(struct repository *repo,
+				int only_to_die,
+				const struct cache_entry *ce,
+				int stage,
+				const char *prefix,
+				const char *cp)
+{
+	if (!S_ISSPARSEDIR(ce->ce_mode))
+		return 0;
+	if (only_to_die)
+		diagnose_invalid_index_path(repo, stage, prefix, cp);
+	return -1;
+}
+
 static enum get_oid_result get_oid_with_context_1(struct repository *repo,
 				  const char *name,
 				  unsigned flags,
@@ -1955,9 +1969,12 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_oid_with_context_1(struct repository *repo,
 			    memcmp(ce->name, cp, namelen))
 				break;
 			if (ce_stage(ce) == stage) {
+				free(new_path);
+				if (reject_tree_in_index(repo, only_to_die, ce,
+							 stage, prefix, cp))
+					return -1;
 				oidcpy(oid, &ce->oid);
 				oc->mode = ce->ce_mode;
-				free(new_path);
 				return 0;
 			}
 			pos++;