rebase -m: fix serialization of strategy options

To store the strategy options rebase prepends " --" to each one and
writes them to a file. To load them it reads the file and passes the
contents to split_cmdline(). This roughly mimics the behavior of the
scripted rebase but has a couple of limitations, (1) options containing
whitespace are not properly preserved (this is true of the scripted
rebase as well) and (2) options containing '"' or '\' are incorrectly
parsed and may cause the parser to return an error.

Fix these limitations by quoting each option when they are stored so
that they can be parsed correctly. Now that "--preserve-merges" no
longer exist this change also stops prepending "--" to the options when
they are stored as that was an artifact of the scripted rebase.

These changes are backwards compatible so the files written by an older
version of git can be still be read. They are also forwards compatible,
the file can still be parsed by recent versions of git as they treat the
"--" prefix as optional.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <[email protected]>

alias.c

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "alloc.h"
 #include "config.h"
 #include "gettext.h"
+#include "strbuf.h"
 #include "string-list.h"
 
 struct config_alias_data {
@@ -46,6 +47,23 @@ void list_aliases(struct string_list *list)
 	read_early_config(config_alias_cb, &data);
 }
 
+void quote_cmdline(struct strbuf *buf, const char **argv)
+{
+	for (const char **argp = argv; *argp; argp++) {
+		if (argp != argv)
+			strbuf_addch(buf, ' ');
+		strbuf_addch(buf, '"');
+		for (const char *p = *argp; *p; p++) {
+			const char c = *p;
+
+			if (c == '"' || c =='\\')
+				strbuf_addch(buf, '\\');
+			strbuf_addch(buf, c);
+		}
+		strbuf_addch(buf, '"');
+	}
+}
+
 #define SPLIT_CMDLINE_BAD_ENDING 1
 #define SPLIT_CMDLINE_UNCLOSED_QUOTE 2
 #define SPLIT_CMDLINE_ARGC_OVERFLOW 3

alias.h

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 #ifndef ALIAS_H
 #define ALIAS_H
 
+struct strbuf;
 struct string_list;
 
 char *alias_lookup(const char *alias);
+/* Quote argv so buf can be parsed by split_cmdline() */
+void quote_cmdline(struct strbuf *buf, const char **argv);
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv);
 /* Takes a negative value returned by split_cmdline */
 const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int cmdline_errno);

sequencer.c

@@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@ static void parse_strategy_opts(struct replay_opts *opts, char *raw_opts)
 
 	count = split_cmdline(strategy_opts_string, &argv);
 	if (count < 0)
-		die(_("could not split '%s': %s"), strategy_opts_string,
+		BUG("could not split '%s': %s", strategy_opts_string,
 			    split_cmdline_strerror(count));
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
@@ -3048,12 +3048,13 @@ static int read_populate_opts(struct replay_opts *opts)
 
 static void write_strategy_opts(struct replay_opts *opts)
 {
-	int i;
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < opts->xopts.nr; ++i)
-		strbuf_addf(&buf, " --%s", opts->xopts.v[i]);
-
+	/*
+	 * Quote strategy options so that they can be read correctly
+	 * by split_cmdline().
+	 */
+	quote_cmdline(&buf, opts->xopts.v);
 	write_file(rebase_path_strategy_opts(), "%s\n", buf.buf);
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 }

t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh

@@ -62,29 +62,39 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase --continue remembers merge strategy and options' '
 	rm -fr .git/rebase-* &&
 	git reset --hard commit-new-file-F2-on-topic-branch &&
 	test_commit "commit-new-file-F3-on-topic-branch" F3 32 &&
-	test_when_finished "rm -fr test-bin funny.was.run" &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -fr test-bin" &&
 	mkdir test-bin &&
-	cat >test-bin/git-merge-funny <<-EOF &&
-	#!$SHELL_PATH
-	case "\$1" in --opt) ;; *) exit 2 ;; esac
-	shift &&
-	>funny.was.run &&
-	exec git merge-recursive "\$@"
+
+	write_script test-bin/git-merge-funny <<-\EOF &&
+	printf "[%s]\n" $# "$1" "$2" "$3" "$5" >actual
+	shift 3 &&
+	exec git merge-recursive "$@"
 	EOF
-	chmod +x test-bin/git-merge-funny &&
+
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	[7]
+	[--option=arg with space]
+	[--op"tion\]
+	[--new
+	line ]
+	[--]
+	EOF
+
+	rm -f actual &&
 	(
 		PATH=./test-bin:$PATH &&
-		test_must_fail git rebase -s funny -Xopt main topic
+		test_must_fail git rebase -s funny -X"option=arg with space" \
+				-Xop\"tion\\ -X"new${LF}line " main topic
 	) &&
-	test -f funny.was.run &&
-	rm funny.was.run &&
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	rm actual &&
 	echo "Resolved" >F2 &&
 	git add F2 &&
 	(
 		PATH=./test-bin:$PATH &&
 		git rebase --continue
 	) &&
-	test -f funny.was.run
+	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'rebase -i --continue handles merge strategy and options' '

t/t3436-rebase-more-options.sh

@@ -40,30 +40,6 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	EOF
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'bad -X <strategy-option> arguments: unclosed quote' '
-	test_when_finished "test_might_fail git rebase --abort" &&
-	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
-	fatal: could not split '\''--bad'\'': unclosed quote
-	EOF
-	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="echo break >" \
-		git rebase -i -X"bad argument\"" side main &&
-	test_expect_code 128 git rebase --continue >out 2>actual &&
-	test_must_be_empty out &&
-	test_cmp expect actual
-'
-
-test_expect_success 'bad -X <strategy-option> arguments: bad escape' '
-	test_when_finished "test_might_fail git rebase --abort" &&
-	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
-	fatal: could not split '\''--bad'\'': cmdline ends with \
-	EOF
-	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="echo break >" \
-		git rebase -i -X"bad escape \\" side main &&
-	test_expect_code 128 git rebase --continue >out 2>actual &&
-	test_must_be_empty out &&
-	test_cmp expect actual
-'
-
 test_expect_success '--ignore-whitespace works with apply backend' '
 	test_must_fail git rebase --apply main side &&
 	git rebase --abort &&