scan_path(): Do not recurse into hidden directories by default

Paths that start with a period ('.') are considered hidden in the Unix world.
scan_path() should arguably not recurse into these directories by default.
This patch makes it so, and introduces the "scan-hidden-path" config variable
for overriding the new default and revert to the old behaviour (scanning _all_
directories, including hidden .directories).

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <larsh@prediktor.no>

4 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index 412fbf0..6a76281 100644
--- a/cgit.c
+++ b/cgit.c
@@ -192,12 +192,14 @@ void config_cb(const char *name, const char *value)
 			process_cached_repolist(expand_macros(value));
 		else if (ctx.cfg.project_list)
 			scan_projects(expand_macros(value),
 				      ctx.cfg.project_list, repo_config);
 		else
 			scan_tree(expand_macros(value), repo_config);
+	else if (!strcmp(name, "scan-hidden-path"))
+		ctx.cfg.scan_hidden_path = atoi(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "section-from-path"))
 		ctx.cfg.section_from_path = atoi(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "source-filter"))
 		ctx.cfg.source_filter = new_filter(value, 1);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "summary-log"))
 		ctx.cfg.summary_log = atoi(value);
@@ -312,12 +314,13 @@ static void prepare_context(struct cgit_context *ctx)
 	ctx->cfg.project_list = NULL;
 	ctx->cfg.renamelimit = -1;
 	ctx->cfg.remove_suffix = 0;
 	ctx->cfg.robots = "index, nofollow";
 	ctx->cfg.root_title = "Git repository browser";
 	ctx->cfg.root_desc = "a fast webinterface for the git dscm";
+	ctx->cfg.scan_hidden_path = 0;
 	ctx->cfg.script_name = CGIT_SCRIPT_NAME;
 	ctx->cfg.section = "";
 	ctx->cfg.summary_branches = 10;
 	ctx->cfg.summary_log = 10;
 	ctx->cfg.summary_tags = 10;
 	ctx->cfg.max_atom_items = 10;
diff --git a/cgit.h b/cgit.h
index f5f68ac..ad94905 100644
--- a/cgit.h
+++ b/cgit.h
@@ -204,12 +204,13 @@ struct cgit_config {
 	int max_stats;
 	int nocache;
 	int noplainemail;
 	int noheader;
 	int renamelimit;
 	int remove_suffix;
+	int scan_hidden_path;
 	int section_from_path;
 	int snapshots;
 	int summary_branches;
 	int summary_log;
 	int summary_tags;
 	int ssdiff;
diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt
index 8e51ca5..1dc3cce 100644
--- a/cgitrc.5.txt
+++ b/cgitrc.5.txt
@@ -266,12 +266,20 @@ root-readme::
 	value: none.
 
 root-title::
 	Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
 	"Git Repository Browser".
 
+scan-hidden-path::
+	If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, scan-path will recurse into
+	directories whose name starts with a period ('.'). Otherwise,
+	scan-path will stay away from such directories (considered as
+	"hidden"). Note that this does not apply to the ".git" directory in
+	non-bare repos. This must be defined prior to scan-path.
+	Default value: 0. See also: scan-path.
+
 scan-path::
 	A path which will be scanned for repositories. If caching is enabled,
 	the result will be cached as a cgitrc include-file in the cache
 	directory. If project-list has been defined prior to scan-path,
 	scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by
 	project-list. Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl,
diff --git a/scan-tree.c b/scan-tree.c
index eda8c67..627af1b 100644
--- a/scan-tree.c
+++ b/scan-tree.c
@@ -180,12 +180,14 @@ static void scan_path(const char *base, const char *path, repo_config_fn fn)
 	while((ent = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
 		if (ent->d_name[0] == '.') {
 			if (ent->d_name[1] == '\0')
 				continue;
 			if (ent->d_name[1] == '.' && ent->d_name[2] == '\0')
 				continue;
+			if (!ctx.cfg.scan_hidden_path)
+				continue;
 		}
 		buf = malloc(strlen(path) + strlen(ent->d_name) + 2);
 		if (!buf) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "Alloc error on %s: %s (%d)\n",
 				path, strerror(errno), errno);
 			exit(1);