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To expand the "%(trailers)" placeholder, we have to feed the commit or
tag body to the trailer API. But that API doesn't know anything about
signatures, and will be confused by a signed tag like this:
the subject
the body
Some-trailer: foo
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
...etc...
because it will start looking for trailers after the signature, and get
stopped walking backwards by the very non-trailer signature lines. So it
thinks there are no trailers.
This problem has existed since %(trailers) was added to the ref-filter
code, but back then trailers on tags weren't something we really
considered (commits don't have the same problem because their signatures
are embedded in the header). But since 066cef7707 (builtin/tag: add
--trailer option, 2024-05-05), we'd generate an object like the above
for "git tag -s --trailer 'Some-trailer: foo' my-tag".
The implementation here is pretty simple: we just make a NUL-terminated
copy of the non-signature part of the tag (which we've already parsed)
and pass it to the trailer API. There are some alternatives I rejected,
at least for now:
- the trailer code already understands skipping past some cruft at the
end of a commit, such as patch dividers. see find_end_of_log_message().
We could teach it to do the same for signatures. But since this is
the only context where we'd want that feature, and since we've already
parsed the object into subject/body/signature here, it seemed easier
to just pass in the truncated message.
- it would be nice if we could just pass in a pointer/len pair to the
trailer API (rather than a NUL-terminated string) to avoid the extra
copy. I think this is possible, since as noted above, the trailer
code already has to deal with ignoring some cruft at the end of the
input. But after an initial attempt at this, it got pretty messy, as
we have to touch a lot of intermediate functions that are also
called in other contexts.
So I went for the simple and stupid thing, at least for now. I don't
think the extra copy overhead will be all that bad. The previous
patch noted that an extra copy seemed to cause about 1-2% slowdown
for something simple like "%(subject)". But here we are only
triggering it for "%(trailers)" (and only when there is a
signature), and the trailer code is a bit allocation-heavy already.
I couldn't measure any difference formatting "%(trailers)" on
linux.git before and after (even though there are not even any
trailers to find).
Reported-by: Brooke Kuhlmann <brooke@alchemists.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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