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<title>delta/git.git/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh, branch sb/hashmap-cleanup</title>
<subtitle>github.com: git/git.git
</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>t5550: use write_script to generate post-update hook</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T04:27:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brandon Williams</name>
<email>bmwill@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T23:17:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=1fd1a919ce9135a34866d5d13aed5312ea5e07f1'/>
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<content type='text'>
The post-update hooks created in t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh is missing the
"!#/bin/sh" line which can cause issues with portability.  Instead
create the hook using the 'write_script' function which includes the
proper "#!" line.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The post-update hooks created in t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh is missing the
"!#/bin/sh" line which can cause issues with portability.  Instead
create the hook using the 'write_script' function which includes the
proper "#!" line.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect'</title>
<updated>2017-03-10T21:24:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-10T21:24:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=d0f549f403266c14acc687098ee3e697a67984c2'/>
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<content type='text'>
When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.

* jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect:
  http: attempt updating base URL only if no error
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<pre>
When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.

* jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect:
  http: attempt updating base URL only if no error
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>http: attempt updating base URL only if no error</title>
<updated>2017-02-28T19:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Tan</name>
<email>jonathantanmy@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-28T02:53:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=8e27391a5fdc9194c4ed3ed6c64ec4750a1a08b5'/>
<id>8e27391a5fdc9194c4ed3ed6c64ec4750a1a08b5</id>
<content type='text'>
http.c supports HTTP redirects of the form

  http://foo/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
  -&gt; http://anything
  -&gt; http://bar/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

(that is to say, as long as the Git part of the path and the query
string is preserved in the final redirect destination, the intermediate
steps can have any URL). However, if one of the intermediate steps
results in an HTTP exception, a confusing "unable to update url base
from redirection" message is printed instead of a Curl error message
with the HTTP exception code.

This was introduced by 2 commits. Commit c93c92f ("http: update base
URLs when we see redirects", 2013-09-28) introduced a best-effort
optimization that required checking if only the "base" part of the URL
differed between the initial request and the final redirect destination,
but it performed the check before any HTTP status checking was done. If
something went wrong, the normal code path was still followed, so this
did not cause any confusing error messages until commit 6628eb4 ("http:
always update the base URL for redirects", 2016-12-06), which taught
http to die if the non-"base" part of the URL differed.

Therefore, teach http to check the HTTP status before attempting to
check if only the "base" part of the URL differed. This commit teaches
http_request_reauth to return early without updating options-&gt;base_url
upon an error; the only invoker of this function that passes a non-NULL
"options" is remote-curl.c (through "http_get_strbuf"), which only uses
options-&gt;base_url for an informational message in the situations that
this commit cares about (that is, when the return value is not HTTP_OK).

The included test checks that the redirect scheme at the beginning of
this commit message works, and that returning a 502 in the middle of the
redirect scheme produces the correct result. Note that this is different
from the test in commit 6628eb4 ("http: always update the base URL for
redirects", 2016-12-06) in that this commit tests that a Git-shaped URL
(http://.../info/refs?service=git-upload-pack) works, whereas commit
6628eb4 tests that a non-Git-shaped URL
(http://.../info/refs/foo?service=git-upload-pack) does not work (even
though Git is processing that URL) and is an error that is fatal, not
silently swallowed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan &lt;jonathantanmy@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
http.c supports HTTP redirects of the form

  http://foo/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
  -&gt; http://anything
  -&gt; http://bar/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

(that is to say, as long as the Git part of the path and the query
string is preserved in the final redirect destination, the intermediate
steps can have any URL). However, if one of the intermediate steps
results in an HTTP exception, a confusing "unable to update url base
from redirection" message is printed instead of a Curl error message
with the HTTP exception code.

This was introduced by 2 commits. Commit c93c92f ("http: update base
URLs when we see redirects", 2013-09-28) introduced a best-effort
optimization that required checking if only the "base" part of the URL
differed between the initial request and the final redirect destination,
but it performed the check before any HTTP status checking was done. If
something went wrong, the normal code path was still followed, so this
did not cause any confusing error messages until commit 6628eb4 ("http:
always update the base URL for redirects", 2016-12-06), which taught
http to die if the non-"base" part of the URL differed.

Therefore, teach http to check the HTTP status before attempting to
check if only the "base" part of the URL differed. This commit teaches
http_request_reauth to return early without updating options-&gt;base_url
upon an error; the only invoker of this function that passes a non-NULL
"options" is remote-curl.c (through "http_get_strbuf"), which only uses
options-&gt;base_url for an informational message in the situations that
this commit cares about (that is, when the return value is not HTTP_OK).

The included test checks that the redirect scheme at the beginning of
this commit message works, and that returning a 502 in the middle of the
redirect scheme produces the correct result. Note that this is different
from the test in commit 6628eb4 ("http: always update the base URL for
redirects", 2016-12-06) in that this commit tests that a Git-shaped URL
(http://.../info/refs?service=git-upload-pack) works, whereas commit
6628eb4 tests that a non-Git-shaped URL
(http://.../info/refs/foo?service=git-upload-pack) does not work (even
though Git is processing that URL) and is an error that is fatal, not
silently swallowed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan &lt;jonathantanmy@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir'</title>
<updated>2017-02-27T21:57:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T21:57:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=ace83dc26a13ada8f6b2c011b01fc0ae9e48b86f'/>
<id>ace83dc26a13ada8f6b2c011b01fc0ae9e48b86f</id>
<content type='text'>
"git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
without being in a directory under Git's control.  However, recent
updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
repository.  Stop doing so.

* jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir:
  remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR
  remote: avoid reading $GIT_DIR config in non-repo
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
"git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
without being in a directory under Git's control.  However, recent
updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
repository.  Stop doing so.

* jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir:
  remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR
  remote: avoid reading $GIT_DIR config in non-repo
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR</title>
<updated>2017-02-14T21:14:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Nieder</name>
<email>jrnieder@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-14T20:36:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=4b0c3c7735716e8e1faba9a25b4aebf019d8570a'/>
<id>4b0c3c7735716e8e1faba9a25b4aebf019d8570a</id>
<content type='text'>
To push from or fetch to the current repository, remote helpers need
to know what repository that is.  Accordingly, Git sets the GIT_DIR
environment variable to the path to the current repository when
invoking remote helpers.

There is a special case it does not handle: "git ls-remote" and "git
archive --remote" can be run to inspect a remote repository without
being run from any local repository.  GIT_DIR is not useful in this
scenario:

- if we are not in a repository, we don't need to set GIT_DIR to
  override an existing GIT_DIR value from the environment.  If GIT_DIR
  is present then we would be in a repository if it were valid and
  would have called die() if it weren't.

- not setting GIT_DIR may cause a helper to do the usual discovery
  walk to find the repository.  But we know we're not in one, or we
  would have found it ourselves.  So in the worst case it may expend
  a little extra effort to try to find a repository and fail (for
  example, remote-curl would do this to try to find repository-level
  configuration).

So leave GIT_DIR unset in this case.  This makes GIT_DIR easier to
understand for remote helper authors and makes transport code less of
a special case for repository discovery.

Noticed using b1ef400e (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to
".git", 2016-10-20) from 'next':

 $ cd /tmp
 $ git ls-remote https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
 fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository

Helped-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
To push from or fetch to the current repository, remote helpers need
to know what repository that is.  Accordingly, Git sets the GIT_DIR
environment variable to the path to the current repository when
invoking remote helpers.

There is a special case it does not handle: "git ls-remote" and "git
archive --remote" can be run to inspect a remote repository without
being run from any local repository.  GIT_DIR is not useful in this
scenario:

- if we are not in a repository, we don't need to set GIT_DIR to
  override an existing GIT_DIR value from the environment.  If GIT_DIR
  is present then we would be in a repository if it were valid and
  would have called die() if it weren't.

- not setting GIT_DIR may cause a helper to do the usual discovery
  walk to find the repository.  But we know we're not in one, or we
  would have found it ourselves.  So in the worst case it may expend
  a little extra effort to try to find a repository and fail (for
  example, remote-curl would do this to try to find repository-level
  configuration).

So leave GIT_DIR unset in this case.  This makes GIT_DIR easier to
understand for remote helper authors and makes transport code less of
a special case for repository discovery.

Noticed using b1ef400e (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to
".git", 2016-10-20) from 'next':

 $ cd /tmp
 $ git ls-remote https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
 fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository

Helped-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/http-walker-limit-redirect' into maint</title>
<updated>2017-01-17T22:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-17T22:49:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=5ce6f51ff78bcb847c6c4835d80f6b58d730a8de'/>
<id>5ce6f51ff78bcb847c6c4835d80f6b58d730a8de</id>
<content type='text'>
Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails
to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message
only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to
be reported with something sensible.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect:
  http-walker: complain about non-404 loose object errors
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails
to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message
only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to
be reported with something sensible.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect:
  http-walker: complain about non-404 loose object errors
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bw/transport-protocol-policy'</title>
<updated>2016-12-27T08:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-27T08:11:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=9d540e97267fa94d9701d3e1aa5cdf2926858472'/>
<id>9d540e97267fa94d9701d3e1aa5cdf2926858472</id>
<content type='text'>
Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
mechanism.

* bw/transport-protocol-policy:
  http: respect protocol.*.allow=user for http-alternates
  transport: add from_user parameter to is_transport_allowed
  http: create function to get curl allowed protocols
  transport: add protocol policy config option
  http: always warn if libcurl version is too old
  lib-proto-disable: variable name fix
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
mechanism.

* bw/transport-protocol-policy:
  http: respect protocol.*.allow=user for http-alternates
  transport: add from_user parameter to is_transport_allowed
  http: create function to get curl allowed protocols
  transport: add protocol policy config option
  http: always warn if libcurl version is too old
  lib-proto-disable: variable name fix
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9'</title>
<updated>2016-12-19T22:45:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-19T22:45:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=8a2882f23ecce3a8742743555a408e508d4db806'/>
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<content type='text'>
Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs
that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server
side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to
security issues.  Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious
to the end user when it happens.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9:
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs
that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server
side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to
security issues.  Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious
to the end user when it happens.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9:
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>http: respect protocol.*.allow=user for http-alternates</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T17:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T22:39:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=abcbdc03895ff3f00280e54af11fee92d6877044'/>
<id>abcbdc03895ff3f00280e54af11fee92d6877044</id>
<content type='text'>
The http-walker may fetch the http-alternates (or
alternates) file from a remote in order to find more
objects. This should count as a "not from the user" use of
the protocol. But because we implement the redirection
ourselves and feed the new URL to curl, it will use the
CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS rules, not the more restrictive
CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS.

The ideal solution would be for each curl request we make to
know whether or not is directly from the user or part of an
alternates redirect, and then set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS as
appropriate. However, that would require plumbing that
information through all of the various layers of the http
code.

Instead, let's check the protocol at the source: when we are
parsing the remote http-alternates file. The only downside
is that if there's any mismatch between what protocol we
think it is versus what curl thinks it is, it could violate
the policy.

To address this, we'll make the parsing err on the picky
side, and only allow protocols that it can parse
definitively. So for example, you can't elude the "http"
policy by asking for "HTTP://", even though curl might
handle it; we would reject it as unknown. The only unsafe
case would be if you have a URL that starts with "http://"
but curl interprets as another protocol. That seems like an
unlikely failure mode (and we are still protected by our
base CURLOPT_PROTOCOL setting, so the worst you could do is
trigger one of https, ftp, or ftps).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The http-walker may fetch the http-alternates (or
alternates) file from a remote in order to find more
objects. This should count as a "not from the user" use of
the protocol. But because we implement the redirection
ourselves and feed the new URL to curl, it will use the
CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS rules, not the more restrictive
CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS.

The ideal solution would be for each curl request we make to
know whether or not is directly from the user or part of an
alternates redirect, and then set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS as
appropriate. However, that would require plumbing that
information through all of the various layers of the http
code.

Instead, let's check the protocol at the source: when we are
parsing the remote http-alternates file. The only downside
is that if there's any mismatch between what protocol we
think it is versus what curl thinks it is, it could violate
the policy.

To address this, we'll make the parsing err on the picky
side, and only allow protocols that it can parse
definitively. So for example, you can't elude the "http"
policy by asking for "HTTP://", even though curl might
handle it; we would reject it as unknown. The only unsafe
case would be if you have a URL that starts with "http://"
but curl interprets as another protocol. That seems like an
unlikely failure mode (and we are still protected by our
base CURLOPT_PROTOCOL setting, so the worst you could do is
trigger one of https, ftp, or ftps).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>http: treat http-alternates like redirects</title>
<updated>2016-12-06T20:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-06T18:24:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=cb4d2d35c4622ec2513c1c352d30ff8f9f9cdb9e'/>
<id>cb4d2d35c4622ec2513c1c352d30ff8f9f9cdb9e</id>
<content type='text'>
The previous commit made HTTP redirects more obvious and
tightened up the default behavior. However, there's another
way for a server to ask a git client to fetch arbitrary
content: by having an http-alternates file (or a regular
alternates file, which is used as a backup).

Similar to the HTTP redirect case, a malicious server can
claim to have refs pointing at object X, return a 404 when
the client asks for X, but point to some other URL via
http-alternates, which the client will transparently fetch.
The end result is that it looks from the user's perspective
like the objects came from the malicious server, as the
other URL is not mentioned at all.

Worse, because we feed the new URL to curl ourselves, the
usual protocol restrictions do not kick in (neither curl's
default of disallowing file://, nor the protocol
whitelisting in f4113cac0 (http: limit redirection to
protocol-whitelist, 2015-09-22).

Let's apply the same rules here as we do for HTTP redirects.
Namely:

  - unless http.followRedirects is set to "always", we will
    not follow remote redirects from http-alternates (or
    alternates) at all

  - set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS alongside CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS
    restrict ourselves to a known-safe set and respect any
    user-provided whitelist.

  - mention alternate object stores on stderr so that the
    user is aware another source of objects may be involved

The first item may prove to be too restrictive. The most
common use of alternates is to point to another path on the
same server. While it's possible for a single-server
redirect to be an attack, it takes a fairly obscure setup
(victim and evil repository on the same host, host speaks
dumb http, and evil repository has access to edit its own
http-alternates file).

So we could make the checks more specific, and only cover
cross-server redirects. But that means parsing the URLs
ourselves, rather than letting curl handle them. This patch
goes for the simpler approach. Given that they are only used
with dumb http, http-alternates are probably pretty rare.
And there's an escape hatch: the user can allow redirects on
a specific server by setting http.&lt;url&gt;.followRedirects to
"always".

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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The previous commit made HTTP redirects more obvious and
tightened up the default behavior. However, there's another
way for a server to ask a git client to fetch arbitrary
content: by having an http-alternates file (or a regular
alternates file, which is used as a backup).

Similar to the HTTP redirect case, a malicious server can
claim to have refs pointing at object X, return a 404 when
the client asks for X, but point to some other URL via
http-alternates, which the client will transparently fetch.
The end result is that it looks from the user's perspective
like the objects came from the malicious server, as the
other URL is not mentioned at all.

Worse, because we feed the new URL to curl ourselves, the
usual protocol restrictions do not kick in (neither curl's
default of disallowing file://, nor the protocol
whitelisting in f4113cac0 (http: limit redirection to
protocol-whitelist, 2015-09-22).

Let's apply the same rules here as we do for HTTP redirects.
Namely:

  - unless http.followRedirects is set to "always", we will
    not follow remote redirects from http-alternates (or
    alternates) at all

  - set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS alongside CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS
    restrict ourselves to a known-safe set and respect any
    user-provided whitelist.

  - mention alternate object stores on stderr so that the
    user is aware another source of objects may be involved

The first item may prove to be too restrictive. The most
common use of alternates is to point to another path on the
same server. While it's possible for a single-server
redirect to be an attack, it takes a fairly obscure setup
(victim and evil repository on the same host, host speaks
dumb http, and evil repository has access to edit its own
http-alternates file).

So we could make the checks more specific, and only cover
cross-server redirects. But that means parsing the URLs
ourselves, rather than letting curl handle them. This patch
goes for the simpler approach. Given that they are only used
with dumb http, http-alternates are probably pretty rare.
And there's an escape hatch: the user can allow redirects on
a specific server by setting http.&lt;url&gt;.followRedirects to
"always".

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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