On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:00:43PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > 'logs/refs' is not a working tree-specific path, but since commit > b9317d55a3 (Make sure refs/rewritten/ is per-worktree, 2019-03-07) > 'git rev-parse --git-path' has been returning a bogus path if a > trailing '/' is present: > > $ git -C WT/ rev-parse --git-path logs/refs --git-path logs/refs/ > /home/szeder/src/git/.git/logs/refs > /home/szeder/src/git/.git/worktrees/WT/logs/refs/ > > We use a trie data structure to efficiently decide whether a path > belongs to the common dir or is working tree-specific. As it happens > b9317d55a3 triggered a bug that is as old as the trie implementation > itself, added in 4e09cf2acf (path: optimize common dir checking, > 2015-08-31). > > - According to the comment describing trie_find(), it should only > call the given match function 'fn' for a "/-or-\0-terminated > prefix of the key for which the trie contains a value". This is > not true: there are three places where trie_find() calls the match > function, but one of them is missing the check for value's > existence. > > - b9317d55a3 added two new keys to the trie: 'logs/refs/rewritten' > and 'logs/refs/worktree', next to the already existing > 'logs/refs/bisect'. This resulted in a trie node with the path > 'logs/refs', which didn't exist before, and which doesn't have a
Oops, I missed the trailing slash, that must be 'logs/refs/'! > value attached. A query for 'logs/refs/' finds this node and then > hits that one callsite of the match function which doesn't check > for the value's existence, and thus invokes the match function > with NULL as value.
