cat-file: only split on whitespace when %(rest) is used

Commit c334b87 (cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace,
2013-07-11) taught `cat-file --batch-check` to split input lines on
the first whitespace, and stash everything after the first token
into the %(rest) output format element.  It claimed:

   Object names cannot contain spaces, so any input with
   spaces would have resulted in a "missing" line.

But that is not correct.  Refs, object sha1s, and various peeling
suffixes cannot contain spaces, but some object names can. In
particular:

  1. Tree paths like "[<tree>]:path with whitespace"

  2. Reflog specifications like "@{2 days ago}"

  3. Commit searches like "rev^{/grep me}" or ":/grep me"

To remain backwards compatible, we cannot split on whitespace by
default, hence we will ship 1.8.4 with the commit reverted.

Resurrect its attempt but in a weaker form; only do the splitting
when "%(rest)" is used in the output format. Since that element did
not exist at all before c334b87, old scripts cannot be affected.

The existence of object names with spaces does mean that you
cannot reliably do:

  echo ":path with space and other data" |
  git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectname) %(rest)"

as it would split the path and feed only ":path" to get_sha1. But
that command is nonsensical. If you wanted to see "and other data"
in "%(rest)", git cannot possibly know where the filename ends and
the "rest" begins.

It might be more robust to have something like "-z" to separate the
input elements. But this patch is still a reasonable step before
having that.  It makes the easy cases easy; people who do not care
about %(rest) do not have to consider it, and the %(rest) code
handles the spaces and newlines of "rev-list --objects" correctly.

Hard cases remain hard but possible (if you might get whitespace in
your input, you do not get to use %(rest) and must split and join
the output yourself using more flexible tools). And most
importantly, it does not preclude us from having different splitting
rules later if a "-z" (or similar) option is added.  So we can make
the hard cases easier later, if we choose to.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

Documentation/git-cat-file.txt

@@ -86,10 +86,9 @@ BATCH OUTPUT
 ------------
 
 If `--batch` or `--batch-check` is given, `cat-file` will read objects
-from stdin, one per line, and print information about them.
-
-Each line is considered as a whole object name, and is parsed as if
-given to linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+from stdin, one per line, and print information about them. By default,
+the whole line is considered as an object, as if it were fed to
+linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
 You can specify the information shown for each object by using a custom
 `<format>`. The `<format>` is copied literally to stdout for each
@@ -110,6 +109,13 @@ newline. The available atoms are:
 	The size, in bytes, that the object takes up on disk. See the
 	note about on-disk sizes in the `CAVEATS` section below.
 
+`rest`::
+	If this atom is used in the output string, input lines are split
+	at the first whitespace boundary. All characters before that
+	whitespace are considered to be the object name; characters
+	after that first run of whitespace (i.e., the "rest" of the
+	line) are output in place of the `%(rest)` atom.
+
 If no format is specified, the default format is `%(objectname)
 %(objecttype) %(objectsize)`.
 

builtin/cat-file.c

@@ -119,13 +119,21 @@ struct expand_data {
 	enum object_type type;
 	unsigned long size;
 	unsigned long disk_size;
+	const char *rest;
 
 	/*
 	 * If mark_query is true, we do not expand anything, but rather
 	 * just mark the object_info with items we wish to query.
 	 */
 	int mark_query;
 
+	/*
+	 * Whether to split the input on whitespace before feeding it to
+	 * get_sha1; this is decided during the mark_query phase based on
+	 * whether we have a %(rest) token in our format.
+	 */
+	int split_on_whitespace;
+
 	/*
 	 * After a mark_query run, this object_info is set up to be
 	 * passed to sha1_object_info_extended. It will point to the data
@@ -163,6 +171,11 @@ static void expand_atom(struct strbuf *sb, const char *atom, int len,
 			data->info.disk_sizep = &data->disk_size;
 		else
 			strbuf_addf(sb, "%lu", data->disk_size);
+	} else if (is_atom("rest", atom, len)) {
+		if (data->mark_query)
+			data->split_on_whitespace = 1;
+		else if (data->rest)
+			strbuf_addstr(sb, data->rest);
 	} else
 		die("unknown format element: %.*s", len, atom);
 }
@@ -273,7 +286,23 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
 
 	while (strbuf_getline(&buf, stdin, '\n') != EOF) {
-		int error = batch_one_object(buf.buf, opt, &data);
+		int error;
+
+		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
+			/*
+			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
+			 * of the string and saving the remainder (or NULL) in
+			 * data.rest.
+			 */
+			char *p = strpbrk(buf.buf, " \t");
+			if (p) {
+				while (*p && strchr(" \t", *p))
+					*p++ = '\0';
+			}
+			data.rest = p;
+		}
+
+		error = batch_one_object(buf.buf, opt, &data);
 		if (error)
 			return error;
 	}

t/t1006-cat-file.sh

@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ $content"
 	echo $sha1 | git cat-file --batch-check="%(objecttype) %(objectname)" >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
     '
+
+    test_expect_success '--batch-check with %(rest)' '
+	echo "$type this is some extra content" >expect &&
+	echo "$sha1    this is some extra content" |
+		git cat-file --batch-check="%(objecttype) %(rest)" >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+    '
 }
 
 hello_content="Hello World"
@@ -91,6 +98,14 @@ test_expect_success "setup" '
 
 run_tests 'blob' $hello_sha1 $hello_size "$hello_content" "$hello_content"
 
+test_expect_success '--batch-check without %(rest) considers whole line' '
+	echo "$hello_sha1 blob $hello_size" >expect &&
+	git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 $hello_sha1 "white space" &&
+	test_when_finished "git update-index --remove \"white space\"" &&
+	echo ":white space" | git cat-file --batch-check >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 tree_sha1=$(git write-tree)
 tree_size=33
 tree_pretty_content="100644 blob $hello_sha1	hello"