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@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater commented Jul 15, 2021

What?

  • load patterns delimited by '\n' rather than default IFS ' \t\n' (space, tab, newline)
  • use while instead of for to avoid modifying/relying on the global value of IFS (general best practice)
  • PR also opened on the awslabs/git-secrets side

Why?

  • combined_patterns() concatenates patterns with | for use in a single grep command
  • using the default value of IFS means patterns containing a space character delimited by space, rather than newline
  • this causes unexpected behavior (false matches from words split by space)

Expected

For example, consider the following list of patterns:

^my-regex$
^my regex with spaces$

load_combined_patterns() should transform them into: ^my-regex$|^my regex with spaces$

Actual

The above example ends up as ^my-regex$|^my|regex|with|spaces$.

By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater changed the title Do not rely on IFS from env Do not rely on IFS from env when loading combined patterns Jul 15, 2021
@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater requested a review from nessex July 15, 2021 07:03
@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater self-assigned this Jul 15, 2021
@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater added the bug Something isn't working label Jul 15, 2021
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LGTM 👍

@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater merged commit ff05bba into master Jul 19, 2021
@michaelfindlater michaelfindlater deleted the fix-combined-patterns-loader branch July 19, 2021 05:24
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