From 4ac00a00e7e36cd5e9f9bad8ed2a6ff4be151d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: database64128 <free122448@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 01:45:31 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] versiongetter: use a permissive AlternatesFS with git-go

---
 go.mod                              |  2 +-
 internal/core/versiongetter/main.go | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d4c2922bd12..ab7624a774a 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.7.0
 	github.com/gin-contrib/pprof v1.5.0
 	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.10.0
+	github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5 v5.5.0
 	github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 v5.12.0
 	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.2.1
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0
@@ -54,7 +55,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype v1.4.3 // indirect
 	github.com/gin-contrib/sse v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/go-git/gcfg v1.5.1-0.20230307220236-3a3c6141e376 // indirect
-	github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5 v5.5.0 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/locales v0.14.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.18.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.20.0 // indirect
diff --git a/internal/core/versiongetter/main.go b/internal/core/versiongetter/main.go
index bb2129a887e..dfa85a7324f 100644
--- a/internal/core/versiongetter/main.go
+++ b/internal/core/versiongetter/main.go
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5"
 	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/plumbing"
+	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/plumbing/cache"
+	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/storage/filesystem"
 )
 
 // Golang version of git describe --tags
@@ -69,7 +72,17 @@ func gitDescribeTags(repo *git.Repository) (string, error) {
 func do() error {
 	log.Println("getting mediamtx version...")
 
-	repo, err := git.PlainOpen("../..")
+	// [git.PlainOpen] uses a ChrootOS that limits filesystem access to the .git directory only.
+	//
+	// Unfortunately, this can cause issues with package build environments such as Arch Linux's,
+	// where .git/objects/info/alternates points to a directory outside of the .git directory.
+	//
+	// To work around this, specify an AlternatesFS that allows access to the entire filesystem.
+	fs := osfs.New("../../.git", osfs.WithBoundOS())
+	storer := filesystem.NewStorageWithOptions(fs, cache.NewObjectLRUDefault(), filesystem.Options{
+		AlternatesFS: osfs.New("/", osfs.WithBoundOS()),
+	})
+	repo, err := git.Open(storer, fs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to open repository: %w", err)
 	}