reflog: allow adding entries with newlines in their message

Currently, the reflog disallows any entries that have a message with
newlines, as that would effectively break the reflog format, which may
contain a single line per entry, only. Upstream git behaves a bit
differently, though, especially when considering stashes: instead of
rejecting any reflog entry with newlines, git will simply replace
newlines with spaces. E.g. executing 'git stash push -m "foo\nbar"' will
create a reflog entry with "foo bar" as entry message.

This commit adjusts our own logic to stop rejecting commit messages with
newlines. Previously, this logic was part of `git_reflog_append`, only.
There is a second place though where we add reflog entries, which is the
serialization code in the filesystem refdb. As it didn't contain any
sanity checks whatsoever, the refdb would have been perfectly happy to
write malformatted reflog entries to the disk. This is being fixed with
the same logic as for the reflog itself.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/refdb_fs.c b/src/refdb_fs.c
index c48afb94f..449dedfba 100644
--- a/src/refdb_fs.c
+++ b/src/refdb_fs.c
@@ -1856,8 +1856,15 @@ static int serialize_reflog_entry(
 	git_buf_rtrim(buf);
 
 	if (msg) {
+		size_t i;
+
 		git_buf_putc(buf, '\t');
 		git_buf_puts(buf, msg);
+
+		for (i = 0; i < buf->size - 2; i++)
+			if (buf->ptr[i] == '\n')
+				buf->ptr[i] = ' ';
+		git_buf_rtrim(buf);
 	}
 
 	git_buf_putc(buf, '\n');