Make "commit-tree" check the input objects more carefully.

Let's not allow trivially bogus commits. I did one for the first
trial of the first kernel git merge. fsck found it ok, but..

diff --git a/commit-tree.c b/commit-tree.c
index 50fe19652f1b440c4123f92af886e47bb418bb11..b20957546ad9b4cac60219845a7c7106830102f8 100644 (file)
--- a/commit-tree.c
+++ b/commit-tree.c
@@ -240,6 +240,18 @@ static void parse_rfc2822_date(char *date, char *result, int maxlen)
        snprintf(result, maxlen, "%lu %5.5s", then, p);
 }
 
+static void check_valid(unsigned char *sha1, const char *expect)
+{
+       void *buf;
+       char type[20];
+       unsigned long size;
+
+       buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, type, &size);
+       if (!buf || strcmp(type, expect))
+               die("%s is not a valid '%s' object", sha1_to_hex(sha1), expect);
+       free(buf);
+}
+
 /*
  * Having more than two parents may be strange, but hey, there's
  * no conceptual reason why the file format couldn't accept multi-way
@@ -271,11 +283,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
        if (argc < 2 || get_sha1_hex(argv[1], tree_sha1) < 0)
                usage("commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog");
 
+       check_valid(tree_sha1, "tree");
        for (i = 2; i < argc; i += 2) {
                char *a, *b;
                a = argv[i]; b = argv[i+1];
                if (!b || strcmp(a, "-p") || get_sha1_hex(b, parent_sha1[parents]))
                        usage("commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog");
+               check_valid(parent_sha1[parents], "commit");
                parents++;
        }
        if (!parents)