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Re: Input validation observations

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:18:02 +0000

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 18:42 +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
> > I tried some potentially invalid inputs to "svn" a week or two ago and
> > made notes on what I found. Just posting here in case anyone wants to
> > do something about one or more of them.
> >
> > Noorul, I'm including you in the "To" addresses because you said you
> > were looking for more small tasks to do, so feel free to pick one of
> > these if you want to.
>
> Thank you! I will start working on these one by one.

Great!

> > Where I end with a question mark, it means I'm not sure if we want this
> > change, it's just a suggestion.
> >
> > * "svn checkout ^/ ^/y" -> "A asf/cxf, A asf/cxf/utils, ...". (Don't
> > try this without being ready on the Ctrl-C or Ctrl-\!) It seems to
> > ignore "^/y" and create ./(basename(^/)); should fail: "'^/y' is not a
> > WC path".
> >
> > * "svn checkout ^/subversion/trunk/build ^/y" -> "Checked out revision
> > 1040465. URL 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/y' doesn't exist".
> > Bleach - that's just crazy. Should fail: "'^/y' is not a WC path".
> >
> > * "svn copy a ^/b c" doesn't detect the mixed source types in cl, only
> > in lib; should reject them at CLI level?
> >
> > * "svn info ^/b" -> "Not a valid URL"; should be "path '/b' not found
> > in revision REV"?
> >
> > * "svn mkdir ^/ a" -> "Illegal repository URL 'a'"; should say "can't
> > mix URL and local targets"?
> >
> > * "svn mkdir a ^/" -> "Can't create directory
> > 'https:/svn.apache.org/repos/asf'"; should not print the URL as if it's
> > a local path.
> >
> > * "svn mv ^/ ^/" -> "Cannot move path
> > 'https:/svn.apache.org/repos/asf' into itself"; should not print the URL
> > as if it's a local path.
> >
> > * "svn update ^/a" -> "Skipped
> > 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/a' ..."; should fail: "'^/a' is not a
> > WC path"?
> >
>
> svn help update says that the argument should be a PATH. I think it is
> right to force the user to enter local PATH.

Good. Thanks for finding that. I agree. That change will make some of
my recent patch (r1040232) redundant: it will no longer need to remove
URL targets from the array of targets, since it will just return an
error if it finds any, like you already did in some of the other
subcomands.

- Julian
Received on 2010-11-30 14:18:43 CET

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