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2009-10-30remote-helpers: Support custom transport optionsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+38
Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags. These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to use them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-30remote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batchLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-4/+10
Some network protocols (e.g. native git://) are able to fetch more than one ref at a time and reduce the overall transfer cost by combining the requests into a single exchange. Instead of feeding each fetch request one at a time to the helper, feed all of them at once so the helper can decide whether or not it should batch them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05Add support for external programs for handling native fetchesLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+71
transport_get() can call transport_native_helper_init() to have list and fetch-ref operations handled by running a separate program as: git remote-<something> <remote> [<url>] This program then accepts, on its stdin, "list" and "fetch <hex> <name>" commands; the former prints out a list of available refs and either their hashes or what they are symrefs to, while the latter fetches them into the local object database and prints a newline when done. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>