context: use a the nofsauditor when matching file in history (issue4749) Before this change, asking for file from history (eg: 'hg cat -r 42 foo/bar') could fail because of the current content of the working copy (eg: current "foo" being a symlink). As the working copy state have no influence on the content of the history, we can safely skip these checks. The working copy context class have a different 'match' implementation. That implementation still use the repo.auditor will still catch symlink traversal. I've audited all stuff calling "match" and they all go through a ctx in a sensible way. The most unclear case was diff which still seemed okay. You raised my paranoid level today and I double checked through tests. They behave properly. The odds of someone using the wrong (matching with a changectx for operation that will eventually touch the file system) is non-zero because you are never sure of what people will do. But I dunno if we can fight against that. So I would not commit to "never" for "at this level" and "in the future" if someone write especially bad code. However, as a last defense, the vfs itself is running path auditor in all cases outside of .hg/. So I think anything passing the 'matcher' for buggy reason would growl at the vfs layer.

  $ HGENCODING=utf-8
  $ export HGENCODING

  $ try() {
  >   hg debugrevspec --debug $@
  > }

  $ log() {
  >   hg log --template '{rev}\n' -r "$1"
  > }

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

  $ try 'p1()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'p1')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset []>
  $ try 'p2()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'p2')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset []>
  $ try 'parents()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'parents')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset+ []>

null revision
  $ log 'p1()'
  $ log 'p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'

working dir with a single parent
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Aqm0
  $ log 'p1()'
  0
  $ log 'tag() and p1()'
  $ log 'p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'
  0
  $ log 'tag() and parents()'

merge in progress
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -Aqm1
  $ hg up -q 0
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -Aqm2
  $ hg merge -q
  $ log 'p1()'
  2
  $ log 'p2()'
  1
  $ log 'tag() and p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'
  1
  2

  $ cd ..