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Fixes #1482

✨ Summary

This PR replaces parse-git-config with a combination of Node's fs module and the ini library for reading Git configuration, due to lack of support and known security vulnerabilities in the original library.


📦 Changes Made

  • Replaced usage of parse-git-config with ini + fs
  • Updated logic in get-repo-slug.ts to manually read and parse .git/config
  • Removed module declaration for parse-git-config in ambient.d.ts
  • Updated package.json:
    • Removed: parse-git-config
    • Added: ini

🔒 Why this is needed

  • parse-git-config is unmaintained and has known security issues
  • Using ini + fs gives better control and ensures future compatibility without relying on unmaintained dependencies

🧪 Testing

  • Verified .git/config is correctly read and parsed
  • Confirmed correct repository slug is extracted from the origin URL
  • Ensured all tests pass
  • Confirmed no regressions in related functionality

📁 Affected Files

  • get-repo-slug.ts
  • ambient.d.ts
  • package.json

✅ Checklist

  • Code is clean and commented
  • Dependencies updated
  • Functionality tested manually
  • CI checks pass
  • Ready for review

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@orta Can you please review this and approve it as soon as possible?

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I’m positively disposed to this solution!

  • The dependency it adds, ini, was already in our yarn.lock and is maintained by npm.
  • The code it adds is targeted and relatively straight-forward to read
  • Note: I haven’t run this PR on my own system, but it looks good to me.

Thanks!

Aside: Seems like there’s a bit of faffing around with pre-commit/pre-push scripts, but I don’t use those, and the changes don’t look wrong, so that just looks irrelevant/fine.

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orta commented Apr 14, 2025

You should remove the AI cruft before submitting this sort of thing.

We don't need a comment on every line and the lint staging changes don't make sense. Otherwise, I think this is pretty reasonable, have you tested the command works locally?

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Thanks for the feedback! I've removed the excessive comments, and I’ve confirmed that npx lint-stage is working fine for me locally.

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orta commented Apr 15, 2025

I mean danger init which was the code which you changed, have you verified that runs in a git repo and when not in a git repo?

The lint staging changes shouldn't be there in this PR either - you're undoing a PR which was just merged #1483

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@orta Yes, I tested it, and the updated danger init logic works as expected both inside a Git repo and when run outside of one. I’ve also reverted the Husky related changes I had made earlier.

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Ace, thanks

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@orta Thanks for the approval! can we release a new version for this?

@orta orta merged commit b829187 into danger:main Apr 15, 2025
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[SECURITY] CVE in parse-git-config
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