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.

  $ hg init test
  $ cd test
  $ echo foo>foo
  $ hg addremove
  adding foo
  $ hg commit -m "1"

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ hg clone . ../branch
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd ../branch
  $ hg co
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo bar>>foo
  $ hg commit -m "2"

  $ cd ../test

  $ hg pull ../branch
  pulling from ../branch
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions

  $ hg co
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat foo
  foo
  bar

  $ hg manifest --debug
  6f4310b00b9a147241b071a60c28a650827fb03d 644   foo

update to rev 0 with a date

  $ hg upd -d foo 0
  abort: you can't specify a revision and a date
  [255]

  $ cd ..