clone: better handle symlinked files at .git/objects/

There is currently an odd behaviour when locally cloning a repository
with symlinks at .git/objects: using --no-hardlinks all symlinks are
dereferenced but without it, Git will try to hardlink the files with the
link() function, which has an OS-specific behaviour on symlinks. On OSX
and NetBSD, it creates a hardlink to the file pointed by the symlink
whilst on GNU/Linux, it creates a hardlink to the symlink itself.

On Manjaro GNU/Linux:
    $ touch a
    $ ln -s a b
    $ link b c
    $ ls -li a b c
    155 [...] a
    156 [...] b -> a
    156 [...] c -> a

But on NetBSD:
    $ ls -li a b c
    2609160 [...] a
    2609164 [...] b -> a
    2609160 [...] c

It's not good to have the result of a local clone to be OS-dependent and
besides that, the current behaviour on GNU/Linux may result in broken
symlinks. So let's standardize this by making the hardlinks always point
to dereferenced paths, instead of the symlinks themselves. Also, add
tests for symlinked files at .git/objects/.

Note: Git won't create symlinks at .git/objects itself, but it's better
to handle this case and be friendly with users who manually create them.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: 2 people

builtin/clone.c

@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static void copy_or_link_directory(struct strbuf *src, struct strbuf *dest,
 		if (unlink(dest->buf) && errno != ENOENT)
 			die_errno(_("failed to unlink '%s'"), dest->buf);
 		if (!option_no_hardlinks) {
-			if (!link(src->buf, dest->buf))
+			if (!link(real_path(src->buf), dest->buf))
 				continue;
 			if (option_local > 0)
 				die_errno(_("failed to create link '%s'"), dest->buf);

t/t5604-clone-reference.sh

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ test_expect_success 'clone a repo with garbage in objects/*' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
-test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'setup repo with manually symlinked dirs and unknown files at objects/' '
+test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'setup repo with manually symlinked or unknown files at objects/' '
 	git init T &&
 	(
 		cd T &&
@@ -280,18 +280,27 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'setup repo with manually symlinked dirs and unknow
 		ln -s packs pack &&
 		find ?? -type d >loose-dirs &&
 		last_loose=$(tail -n 1 loose-dirs) &&
-		rm -f loose-dirs &&
 		mv $last_loose a-loose-dir &&
 		ln -s a-loose-dir $last_loose &&
+		first_loose=$(head -n 1 loose-dirs) &&
+		rm -f loose-dirs &&
+
+		cd $first_loose &&
+		obj=$(ls *) &&
+		mv $obj ../an-object &&
+		ln -s ../an-object $obj &&
+
+		cd ../ &&
 		find . -type f | sort >../../../T.objects-files.raw &&
+		find . -type l | sort >../../../T.objects-symlinks.raw &&
 		echo unknown_content >unknown_file
 	) &&
 	git -C T fsck &&
 	git -C T rev-list --all --objects >T.objects
 '
 
 
-test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'clone repo with symlinked dirs and unknown files at objects/' '
+test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'clone repo with symlinked or unknown files at objects/' '
 	for option in --local --no-hardlinks --shared --dissociate
 	do
 		git clone $option T T$option || return 1 &&
@@ -300,7 +309,8 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'clone repo with symlinked dirs and unknown files a
 		test_cmp T.objects T$option.objects &&
 		(
 			cd T$option/.git/objects &&
-			find . -type f | sort >../../../T$option.objects-files.raw
+			find . -type f | sort >../../../T$option.objects-files.raw &&
+			find . -type l | sort >../../../T$option.objects-symlinks.raw
 		)
 	done &&
 
@@ -314,6 +324,7 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'clone repo with symlinked dirs and unknown files a
 	./Y/Z
 	./Y/Z
 	./a-loose-dir/Z
+	./an-object
 	./Y/Z
 	./info/packs
 	./pack/pack-Z.idx
@@ -323,13 +334,15 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'clone repo with symlinked dirs and unknown files a
 	./unknown_file
 	EOF
 
-	for option in --local --dissociate --no-hardlinks
+	for option in --local --no-hardlinks --dissociate
 	do
-		test_cmp expected-files T$option.objects-files.raw.de-sha || return 1
+		test_cmp expected-files T$option.objects-files.raw.de-sha || return 1 &&
+		test_must_be_empty T$option.objects-symlinks.raw.de-sha || return 1
 	done &&
 
 	echo ./info/alternates >expected-files &&
-	test_cmp expected-files T--shared.objects-files.raw
+	test_cmp expected-files T--shared.objects-files.raw &&
+	test_must_be_empty T--shared.objects-symlinks.raw
 '
 
 test_done