Merge branch 'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow'

It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and
".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the
object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are
used).  When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the
contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been
corrected.

* jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow:
  mailmap: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .mailmap
  exclude: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitignore
  attr: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitattributes
  exclude: add flags parameter to add_patterns()
  attr: convert "macro_ok" into a flags field
  add open_nofollow() helper

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index dcc786edaa..9ddf9d7044 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -1242,6 +1242,13 @@ int access_or_die(const char *path, int mode, unsigned flag);
 /* Warn on an inaccessible file if errno indicates this is an error */
 int warn_on_fopen_errors(const char *path);
 
+/*
+ * Open with O_NOFOLLOW, or equivalent. Note that the fallback equivalent
+ * may be racy. Do not use this as protection against an attacker who can
+ * simultaneously create paths.
+ */
+int open_nofollow(const char *path, int flags);
+
 #if !defined(USE_PARENS_AROUND_GETTEXT_N) && defined(__GNUC__)
 #define USE_PARENS_AROUND_GETTEXT_N 1
 #endif