remove the artificial restriction tagsize < 8kb

Signed-off-by: Björn Engelmann <BjEngelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

3 files changed, 46 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index afa8e4f0ac..b19d84470b 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ extern int ce_match_stat(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st, int);
 extern int ce_modified(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st, int);
 extern int ce_path_match(const struct cache_entry *ce, const char **pathspec);
 extern int index_fd(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, struct stat *st, int write_object, const char *type);
+extern int read_pipe(int fd, char** return_buf, unsigned long* return_size);
 extern int index_pipe(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, const char *type, int write_object);
 extern int index_path(unsigned char *sha1, const char *path, struct stat *st, int write_object);
 extern void fill_stat_cache_info(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st);
diff --git a/mktag.c b/mktag.c
index 23288781cf..f1598dbd21 100644
--- a/mktag.c
+++ b/mktag.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int verify_tag(char *buffer, unsigned long size)
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 	const char *object, *type_line, *tag_line, *tagger_line;
 
-	if (size < 64 || size > MAXSIZE-1)
+	if (size < 64)
 		return -1;
 	buffer[size] = 0;
 
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ static int verify_tag(char *buffer, unsigned long size)
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-	unsigned long size;
-	char buffer[MAXSIZE];
+	unsigned long size = 4096;
+	char *buffer = malloc(size);
 	unsigned char result_sha1[20];
 
 	if (argc != 1)
@@ -114,13 +114,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	setup_git_directory();
 
-	// Read the signature
-	size = 0;
-	for (;;) {
-		int ret = xread(0, buffer + size, MAXSIZE - size);
-		if (ret <= 0)
-			break;
-		size += ret;
+	if (read_pipe(0, &buffer, &size)) {
+		free(buffer);
+		die("could not read from stdin");
 	}
 
 	// Verify it for some basic sanity: it needs to start with "object <sha1>\ntype\ntagger "
@@ -129,6 +125,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	if (write_sha1_file(buffer, size, tag_type, result_sha1) < 0)
 		die("unable to write tag file");
+
+	free(buffer);
+
 	printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(result_sha1));
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 223001033c..e444d9df1b 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -1645,16 +1645,24 @@ int has_sha1_file(const unsigned char *sha1)
 	return find_sha1_file(sha1, &st) ? 1 : 0;
 }
 
-int index_pipe(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, const char *type, int write_object)
+/*
+ * reads from fd as long as possible into a supplied buffer of size bytes.
+ * If neccessary the buffer's size is increased using realloc()
+ *
+ * returns 0 if anything went fine and -1 otherwise
+ *
+ * NOTE: both buf and size may change, but even when -1 is returned
+ * you still have to free() it yourself.
+ */
+int read_pipe(int fd, char** return_buf, unsigned long* return_size)
 {
-	unsigned long size = 4096;
-	char *buf = malloc(size);
-	int iret, ret;
+	char* buf = *return_buf;
+	unsigned long size = *return_size;
+	int iret;
 	unsigned long off = 0;
-	unsigned char hdr[50];
-	int hdrlen;
+
 	do {
-		iret = read(fd, buf + off, size - off);
+		iret = xread(fd, buf + off, size - off);
 		if (iret > 0) {
 			off += iret;
 			if (off == size) {
@@ -1663,16 +1671,34 @@ int index_pipe(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, const char *type, int write_object)
 			}
 		}
 	} while (iret > 0);
-	if (iret < 0) {
+
+	*return_buf = buf;
+	*return_size = off;
+
+	if (iret < 0)
+		return -1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int index_pipe(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, const char *type, int write_object)
+{
+	unsigned long size = 4096;
+	char *buf = malloc(size);
+	int ret;
+	unsigned char hdr[50];
+	int hdrlen;
+
+	if (read_pipe(fd, &buf, &size)) {
 		free(buf);
 		return -1;
 	}
+
 	if (!type)
 		type = blob_type;
 	if (write_object)
-		ret = write_sha1_file(buf, off, type, sha1);
+		ret = write_sha1_file(buf, size, type, sha1);
 	else {
-		write_sha1_file_prepare(buf, off, type, sha1, hdr, &hdrlen);
+		write_sha1_file_prepare(buf, size, type, sha1, hdr, &hdrlen);
 		ret = 0;
 	}
 	free(buf);