fsck: warn about '.' and '..' in trees

A tree with meta-paths like '.' or '..' does not work well
with git; the index will refuse to load it or check it out
to the filesystem (and even if we did not have that safety,
it would look like we were overwriting an untracked
directory). For the same reason, it is difficult to create
such a tree with regular git.

Let's warn about these dubious entries during fsck, just in
case somebody has created a bogus tree (and this also lets
us prevent them from propagating when transfer.fsckObjects
is set).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index 7395ef6a42..31c9a51395 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ static int fsck_tree(struct tree *item, int strict, fsck_error error_func)
 	int has_null_sha1 = 0;
 	int has_full_path = 0;
 	int has_empty_name = 0;
+	int has_dot = 0;
+	int has_dotdot = 0;
 	int has_zero_pad = 0;
 	int has_bad_modes = 0;
 	int has_dup_entries = 0;
@@ -168,6 +170,10 @@ static int fsck_tree(struct tree *item, int strict, fsck_error error_func)
 			has_full_path = 1;
 		if (!*name)
 			has_empty_name = 1;
+		if (!strcmp(name, "."))
+			has_dot = 1;
+		if (!strcmp(name, ".."))
+			has_dotdot = 1;
 		has_zero_pad |= *(char *)desc.buffer == '0';
 		update_tree_entry(&desc);
 
@@ -217,6 +223,10 @@ static int fsck_tree(struct tree *item, int strict, fsck_error error_func)
 		retval += error_func(&item->object, FSCK_WARN, "contains full pathnames");
 	if (has_empty_name)
 		retval += error_func(&item->object, FSCK_WARN, "contains empty pathname");
+	if (has_dot)
+		retval += error_func(&item->object, FSCK_WARN, "contains '.'");
+	if (has_dotdot)
+		retval += error_func(&item->object, FSCK_WARN, "contains '..'");
 	if (has_zero_pad)
 		retval += error_func(&item->object, FSCK_WARN, "contains zero-padded file modes");
 	if (has_bad_modes)