revert recent bug fix temporarily for release

Decided this bug is not severe enough to delay the release until
tomorrow, so this will be re-applied after the release.

Assistant/MakeRepo.hs

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ initRepo True primary_assistant_repo dir desc mgroup = inDir dir $ do
 	initRepo' desc mgroup
 	{- Initialize the master branch, so things that expect
 	 - to have it will work, before any files are added. -}
-	unlessM (fromMaybe False . Git.Config.isBare <$> gitRepo) $ do
+	unlessM (Git.Config.isBare <$> gitRepo) $ do
 		cmode <- annexCommitMode <$> Annex.getGitConfig
 		void $ inRepo $ Git.Branch.commitCommand cmode
 			(Git.Branch.CommitQuiet True)

CHANGELOG

@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ git-annex (10.20230127) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * info, enableremotemote, renameremote: Avoid a confusing message when more
     than one repository matches the user provided name.
   * info: Exit nonzero when the input is not supported.
-  * Fix more breakage caused by git's fix for CVE-2022-24765, this time
-    involving a remote that is a local bare repository not owned by the
-    current user.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:39:18 -0400
 

Database/Keys.hs

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import Git.Sha
 import Git.CatFile
 import Git.Branch (writeTreeQuiet, update')
 import qualified Git.Ref
-import Config
+import qualified Git.Config
 import Config.Smudge
 import qualified Utility.RawFilePath as R
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ getAssociatedFiles k = emptyWhenBare $ runReaderIO AssociatedTable $
  - in a bare repository, but it might happen if a non-bare repo got
  - converted to bare. -}
 emptyWhenBare :: Annex [a] -> Annex [a]
-emptyWhenBare a = ifM isBareRepo
+emptyWhenBare a = ifM (Git.Config.isBare <$> gitRepo)
 	( return []
 	, a
 	)
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ isInodeKnown i s = or <$> runReaderIO ContentTable
  - is an associated file.
  -}
 reconcileStaged :: Bool -> H.DbQueue -> Annex DbTablesChanged
-reconcileStaged dbisnew qh = ifM isBareRepo
+reconcileStaged dbisnew qh = ifM (Git.Config.isBare <$> gitRepo)
 	( return mempty
 	, do
 		gitindex <- inRepo currentIndexFile

Git/Config.hs

@@ -133,28 +133,14 @@ store' k v repo = repo
  - based on the core.bare and core.worktree settings.
  -}
 updateLocation :: Repo -> IO Repo
-updateLocation r@(Repo { location = LocalUnknown d }) = case isBare r of
-	Just True -> ifM (doesDirectoryExist (fromRawFilePath dotgit))
+updateLocation r@(Repo { location = LocalUnknown d })
+	| isBare r = ifM (doesDirectoryExist (fromRawFilePath dotgit))
 			( updateLocation' r $ Local dotgit Nothing
 			, updateLocation' r $ Local d Nothing
 			)
-	Just False -> mknonbare
-	{- core.bare not in config, probably because safe.directory
-	 - did not allow reading the config -}
-	Nothing -> ifM (Git.Construct.isBareRepo (fromRawFilePath d))
-		( mkbare
-		, mknonbare
-		)
+	| otherwise = updateLocation' r $ Local dotgit (Just d)
   where
 	dotgit = d P.</> ".git"
-	-- git treats eg ~/foo as a bare git repository located in
-	-- ~/foo/.git if ~/foo/.git/config has core.bare=true
-	mkbare = ifM (doesDirectoryExist (fromRawFilePath dotgit))
-		( updateLocation' r $ Local dotgit Nothing
-		, updateLocation' r $ Local d Nothing
-		)
-	mknonbare = updateLocation' r $ Local dotgit (Just d)
-
 updateLocation r@(Repo { location = l@(Local {}) }) = updateLocation' r l
 updateLocation r = return r
 
@@ -226,9 +212,8 @@ boolConfig' :: Bool -> S.ByteString
 boolConfig' True = "true"
 boolConfig' False = "false"
 
-{- Note that repoIsLocalBare is often better to use than this. -}
-isBare :: Repo -> Maybe Bool
-isBare r = isTrueFalse' =<< getMaybe coreBare r
+isBare :: Repo -> Bool
+isBare r = fromMaybe False $ isTrueFalse' =<< getMaybe coreBare r
 
 coreBare :: ConfigKey
 coreBare = "core.bare"

Git/Construct.hs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {- Construction of Git Repo objects
  -
- - Copyright 2010-2023 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
+ - Copyright 2010-2021 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
  -
  - Licensed under the GNU AGPL version 3 or higher.
  -}
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ module Git.Construct (
 	checkForRepo,
 	newFrom,
 	adjustGitDirFile,
-	isBareRepo,
 ) where
 
 #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS
@@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ checkForRepo :: FilePath -> IO (Maybe RepoLocation)
 checkForRepo dir = 
 	check isRepo $
 		check (checkGitDirFile (toRawFilePath dir)) $
-			check (checkdir (isBareRepo dir)) $
+			check isBareRepo $
 				return Nothing
   where
 	check test cont = maybe cont (return . Just) =<< test
@@ -226,17 +225,16 @@ checkForRepo dir =
 		, return Nothing
 		)
 	isRepo = checkdir $ 
-		doesFileExist (dir </> ".git" </> "config")
+		gitSignature (".git" </> "config")
 			<||>
 		-- A git-worktree lacks .git/config, but has .git/gitdir.
 		-- (Normally the .git is a file, not a symlink, but it can
 		-- be converted to a symlink and git will still work;
 		-- this handles that case.)
-		doesFileExist (dir </>  ".git" </> "gitdir")
-
-isBareRepo :: FilePath -> IO Bool
-isBareRepo dir = doesFileExist (dir </> "config")
+		gitSignature (".git" </> "gitdir")
+	isBareRepo = checkdir $ gitSignature "config"
 		<&&> doesDirectoryExist (dir </> "objects")
+	gitSignature file = doesFileExist $ dir </> file
 
 -- Check for a .git file.
 checkGitDirFile :: RawFilePath -> IO (Maybe RepoLocation)

Git/CurrentRepo.hs

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ get = do
 			}
 		r <- Git.Config.read $ (newFrom loc)
 			{ gitDirSpecifiedExplicitly = True }
-		return $ if fromMaybe False (Git.Config.isBare r)
+		return $ if Git.Config.isBare r
 			then r { location = (location r) { worktree = Nothing } }
 			else r
 	configure Nothing Nothing = giveup "Not in a git repository."

Remote/Git.hs

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ tryGitConfigRead autoinit r hasuuid
 			Right r' -> do
 				-- Cache when http remote is not bare for
 				-- optimisation.
-				unless (fromMaybe False $ Git.Config.isBare r') $
+				unless (Git.Config.isBare r') $
 					setremote setRemoteBare False
 				return r'
 			Left err -> do

doc/bugs/bare_remote_safe_directory.mdwn

@@ -12,4 +12,15 @@ This is specific to bare git remotes, for non-bare it
 detects and warns that safe.directory is needed to use the
 remote. --[[Joey]]
 
-> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
+> What's causing this is that Git.Config.read is called
+> on the repo, but git refuses to list the repo's config,
+> so updateLocation does not see that the repo is bare
+> when it checks isBare. And so it proceeds to set gitdir
+> to the default non-bare "dir/.git" value.
+> 
+> One way to deal with this would be to make isBare a tristate,
+> since core.bare is not in the listed config at all.
+> 
+> Or, make Git.Construct.fromPath detect when a repo is bare
+> w/o parsing config, and indicate that in the Repo it
+> generates.