introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object

Introduce fetch-object, providing the ability to fetch one object from a
promisor remote.

This uses fetch-pack. To do this, the transport mechanism has been
updated with 2 flags, "from-promisor" to indicate that the resulting
pack comes from a promisor remote (and thus should be annotated as such
by index-pack), and "no-dependents" to indicate that only the objects
themselves need to be fetched (but fetching additional objects is
nevertheless safe).

Whenever "no-dependents" is used, fetch-pack will refrain from using any
object flags, because it is most likely invoked as part of a dynamic
object fetch by another Git command (which may itself use object flags).
An alternative to this is to leave fetch-pack alone, and instead update
the allocation of flags so that fetch-pack's flags never overlap with
any others, but this will end up shrinking the number of flags available
to nearly every other Git command (that is, every Git command that
accesses objects), so the approach in this commit was used instead.

This will be tested in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/fetch-pack.c b/builtin/fetch-pack.c
index 366b9d13f9..02abe7211e 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch-pack.c
@@ -143,6 +143,14 @@ int cmd_fetch_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			args.update_shallow = 1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (!strcmp("--from-promisor", arg)) {
+			args.from_promisor = 1;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (!strcmp("--no-dependents", arg)) {
+			args.no_dependents = 1;
+			continue;
+		}
 		usage(fetch_pack_usage);
 	}
 	if (deepen_not.nr)