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Doc update.
* cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix:
protocol-v2.txt: align delim-pkt spec with usage
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The current protocol EBNF allows command-request to end with the
capability list, if no command specific arguments follow, but the
protocol requires that after the capability list, there must be a
delim-pkt regardless of the number of command specific arguments. Fixed
the EBNF to match. Both JGit and libgit2's implementation has the
delim-pkt as mandatory. JGit's code is not publicly linkable, but
libgit2 is linked below[1]. As for currently implemented commands on v2
(ls-ref and fetch), the delim packet is already being passed through
[1]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/main/src/transports/git.c
Reported-by: Ivan Frade <ifrade@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Code cleanup to limit memory consumption and tighten protocol
message parsing.
* jk/reduce-malloc-in-v2-servers:
ls-refs: reject unknown arguments
serve: reject commands used as capabilities
serve: reject bogus v2 "command=ls-refs=foo"
docs/protocol-v2: clarify some ls-refs ref-prefix details
ls-refs: ignore very long ref-prefix counts
serve: drop "keys" strvec
serve: provide "receive" function for session-id capability
serve: provide "receive" function for object-format capability
serve: add "receive" method for v2 capabilities table
serve: return capability "value" from get_capability()
serve: rename is_command() to parse_command()
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Taking advantage of the CGI interface, http-backend has been
updated to enable protocol v2 automatically when the other side
asks for it.
* jk/http-server-protocol-versions:
docs/protocol-v2: point readers transport config discussion
docs/git: discuss server-side config for GIT_PROTOCOL
docs/http-backend: mention v2 protocol
http-backend: handle HTTP_GIT_PROTOCOL CGI variable
t5551: test v2-to-v0 http protocol fallback
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We've never documented the fact that a client can provide multiple
ref-prefix capabilities. Let's describe the behavior.
We also never discussed the "best effort" nature of the prefixes. The
client side of git.git has always treated them this way, filtering the
result with local patterns. And indeed any client must do this, because
the prefix patterns are not sufficient to express the usual refspecs
(and so for "foo" we ask for "refs/heads/foo", "refs/tags/foo", and so
on).
So this may be considered a change in the spec with respect to client
expectations / requirements, but it's mostly codifying existing
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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We recently added tips for server admins to configure various transports
to support v2's GIT_PROTOCOL variable. While the protocol-v2 document is
pretty technical and not of interest to most admins, it may be a
starting point for them to figure out how to turn on v2. Let's put some
pointers from there to the other documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The --advertise-refs documentation in git-upload-pack added in
9812f2136b3 (upload-pack.c: use parse-options API, 2016-05-31) hasn't
been entirely true ever since v2 support was implemented in
e52449b6722 (connect: request remote refs using v2, 2018-03-15). Under
v2 we don't advertise the refs at all, but rather dump the
capabilities header.
This option has always been an obscure internal implementation detail,
it wasn't even documented for git-receive-pack. Since it has exactly
one user let's rename it to --http-backend-info-refs, which is more
accurate and points the reader in the right direction. Let's also
cross-link this from the protocol v1 and v2 documentation.
I'm retaining a hidden --advertise-refs alias in case there's any
external users of this, and making both options hidden to the bash
completion (as with most other internal-only options).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and RelNotes which repeat
various words. In trivial cases, just delete the duplicated word and
rewrap text, if needed. Reword the affected sentence in
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt for it to make sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving
end over protocol v2.
* jt/push-negotiation:
send-pack: support push negotiation
fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile)
fetch-pack: refactor command and capability write
fetch-pack: refactor add_haves()
fetch-pack: refactor process_acks()
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Currently, the packfile negotiation step within a Git fetch cannot be
done independent of sending the packfile, even though there is at least
one application wherein this is useful. Therefore, make it possible for
this negotiation step to be done independently. A subsequent commit will
use this for one such application - push negotiation.
This feature is for protocol v2 only. (An implementation for protocol v0
would require a separate implementation in the fetch, transport, and
transport helper code.)
In the protocol, the main hindrance towards independent negotiation is
that the server can unilaterally decide to send the packfile. This is
solved by a "wait-for-done" argument: the server will then wait for the
client to say "done". In practice, the client will never say it; instead
it will cease requests once it is satisfied.
In the client, the main change lies in the transport and transport
helper code. fetch_refs_via_pack() performs everything needed - protocol
version and capability checks, and the negotiation itself.
There are 2 code paths that do not go through fetch_refs_via_pack() that
needed to be individually excluded: the bundle transport (excluded
through requiring smart_options, which the bundle transport doesn't
support) and transport helpers that do not support takeover. If or when
we support independent negotiation for protocol v0, we will need to
modify these 2 code paths to support it. But for now, report failure if
independent negotiation is requested in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sometimes it is useful to get information of an object without having to
download it completely.
Add the "object-info" capability that lets the client ask for
object-related information with their full hexadecimal object names.
Only sizes are returned for now.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Albuquerque <bga@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Docfix.
* js/doc-proto-v2-response-end:
doc: fix naming of response-end-pkt
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Git Protocol version 2[1] defines 0002 as a Message Packet that indicates
the end of a response for stateless connections.
Change the naming of the 0002 Packet to 'Response End' to match the
parsing introduced in Wireshark's MR !1922 for consistency. A subsequent
MR in Wireshark will address additional mismatches.
[1] kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/protocol-v2.html
[2] gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/1922
Signed-off-by: Joey Salazar <jgsal@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When cloning, we choose the default branch based on the remote HEAD.
But if there is no remote HEAD reported (which could happen if the
target of the remote HEAD is unborn), we'll fall back to using our local
init.defaultBranch. Traditionally this hasn't been a big deal, because
most repos used "master" as the default. But these days it is likely to
cause confusion if the server and client implementations choose
different values (e.g., if the remote started with "main", we may choose
"master" locally, create commits there, and then the user is surprised
when they push to "master" and not "main").
To solve this, the remote needs to communicate the target of the HEAD
symref, even if it is unborn, and "git clone" needs to use this
information.
Currently, symrefs that have unborn targets (such as in this case) are
not communicated by the protocol. Teach Git to advertise and support the
"unborn" feature in "ls-refs" (by default, this is advertised, but
server administrators may turn this off through the lsrefs.unborn
config). This feature indicates that "ls-refs" supports the "unborn"
argument; when it is specified, "ls-refs" will send the HEAD symref with
the name of its unborn target.
This change is only for protocol v2. A similar change for protocol v0
would require independent protocol design (there being no analogous
position to signal support for "unborn") and client-side plumbing of the
data required, so the scope of this patch set is limited to protocol v2.
The client side will be updated to use this in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In future patches, we will add the ability for Git servers and clients
to advertise unique session IDs via protocol capabilities. This
allows for easier debugging when both client and server logs are
available.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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SHA-256 migration work continues.
* bc/sha-256-part-2: (44 commits)
remote-testgit: adapt for object-format
bundle: detect hash algorithm when reading refs
t5300: pass --object-format to git index-pack
t5704: send object-format capability with SHA-256
t5703: use object-format serve option
t5702: offer an object-format capability in the test
t/helper: initialize the repository for test-sha1-array
remote-curl: avoid truncating refs with ls-remote
t1050: pass algorithm to index-pack when outside repo
builtin/index-pack: add option to specify hash algorithm
remote-curl: detect algorithm for dumb HTTP by size
builtin/ls-remote: initialize repository based on fetch
t5500: make hash independent
serve: advertise object-format capability for protocol v2
connect: parse v2 refs with correct hash algorithm
connect: pass full packet reader when parsing v2 refs
Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2
t1302: expect repo format version 1 for SHA-256
builtin/show-index: provide options to determine hash algo
t5302: modernize test formatting
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The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to
instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition
to the packed object data coming over the wire.
* jt/cdn-offload:
upload-pack: fix a sparse '0 as NULL pointer' warning
upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uri
fetch-pack: support more than one pack lockfile
upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects out
Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc
Documentation: order protocol v2 sections
http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URL
http-fetch: refactor into function
http: refactor finish_http_pack_request()
http: use --stdin when indexing dumb HTTP pack
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The current C Git implementation expects Git servers to follow a
specific order of sections when transmitting protocol v2 responses, but
this is not explicit in the documentation. Make the order explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Document the object-format extension for protocol v2.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.
This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:
$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
Cloning into 'git'...
whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:
$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
Cloning into 'git'...
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.
A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.
Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
"git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
one of the repeated words.
There were many false positives by this grep command, including
deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
that" which I left alone, of course.
I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
words in old RelNotes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Asciidoctor versions v1.5.7 or later print the following warning while
building the documentation:
ASCIIDOC technical/protocol-v2.html
asciidoctor: WARNING: protocol-v2.txt: line 38: unterminated listing block
This highlights an issue (even with older Asciidoctor versions) where
the 'Initial Client Request' header is not rendered as a header but in
monospace. I'm not sure what exactly causes this issue and why it's
an issue only with this particular header, but all headers in
'protocol-v2.txt' are written like this:
Initial Client Request
------------------------
i.e. the header itself is indented by a space, and the "underline" is
two characters longer than the header.
Dropping that indentation and making the length of the underline match
the length of the header apparently fixes this issue.
While at it, adjust all other headers 'protocol-v2.txt' as well, to
match the style we use everywhere else.
The page rendered with AsciiDoc doesn't have this formatting issue.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchange over
the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol.
* jt/fetch-v2-sideband:
tests: define GIT_TEST_SIDEBAND_ALL
{fetch,upload}-pack: sideband v2 fetch response
sideband: reverse its dependency on pkt-line
pkt-line: introduce struct packet_writer
pack-protocol.txt: accept error packets in any context
Use packet_reader instead of packet_read_line
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Currently, a response to a fetch request has sideband support only while
the packfile is being sent, meaning that the server cannot send notices
until the start of the packfile.
Extend sideband support in protocol v2 fetch responses to the whole
response. upload-pack will advertise it if the
uploadpack.allowsidebandall configuration variable is set, and
fetch-pack will automatically request it if advertised.
If the sideband is to be used throughout the whole response, upload-pack
will use it to send errors instead of prefixing a PKT-LINE payload with
"ERR ".
This will be tested in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When communicating with a remote server or a subprocess, use
expanded numbers rather than numbers with scaling suffix in the
object filter spec (e.g. "limit:blob=1k" becomes
"limit:blob=1024").
Update the protocol docs to note that clients should always perform this
expansion, to allow for more compatibility between server
implementations.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it
received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been
corrected.
* jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow:
fetch-pack: write shallow, then check connectivity
fetch-pack: implement ref-in-want
fetch-pack: put shallow info in output parameter
fetch: refactor to make function args narrower
fetch: refactor fetch_refs into two functions
fetch: refactor the population of peer ref OIDs
upload-pack: test negotiation with changing repository
upload-pack: implement ref-in-want
test-pkt-line: add unpack-sideband subcommand
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Doc fix.
* bw/protocol-v2:
protocol-v2 doc: put HTTP headers after request
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Currently, while performing packfile negotiation, clients are only
allowed to specify their desired objects using object ids. This causes
a vulnerability to failure when an object turns non-existent during
negotiation, which may happen if, for example, the desired repository is
provided by multiple Git servers in a load-balancing arrangement and
there exists replication delay.
In order to eliminate this vulnerability, implement the ref-in-want
feature for the 'fetch' command in protocol version 2. This feature
enables the 'fetch' command to support requests in the form of ref names
through a new "want-ref <ref>" parameter. At the conclusion of
negotiation, the server will send a list of all of the wanted references
(as provided by "want-ref" lines) in addition to the generated packfile.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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HTTP servers return 400 if you send headers before the GET request.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone.
* jt/partial-clone-proto-v2:
{fetch,upload}-pack: support filter in protocol v2
upload-pack: read config when serving protocol v2
upload-pack: fix error message typo
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The fetch-pack/upload-pack protocol v2 was developed independently of
the filter parameter (used in partial fetches), thus it did not include
support for it. Add support for the filter parameter.
Like in the legacy protocol, the server advertises and supports "filter"
only if uploadpack.allowfilter is configured.
Like in the legacy protocol, the client continues with a warning if
"--filter" is specified, but the server does not advertise it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Introduce the "server-option" capability to protocol version 2. This
enables future clients the ability to send server specific options in
command requests when using protocol version 2.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Enable shallow clones and deepen requests using protocol version 2 if
the server 'fetch' command supports the 'shallow' feature.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When communicating with a v2 server, perform a fetch by requesting the
'fetch' command.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Introduce the 'fetch' server command.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Introduce the ls-refs server command. In protocol v2, the ls-refs
command is used to request the ref advertisement from the server. Since
it is a command which can be requested (as opposed to mandatory in v1),
a client can sent a number of parameters in its request to limit the ref
advertisement based on provided ref-prefixes.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Introduce git-serve, the base server for protocol version 2.
Protocol version 2 is intended to be a replacement for Git's current
wire protocol. The intention is that it will be a simpler, less
wasteful protocol which can evolve over time.
Protocol version 2 improves upon version 1 by eliminating the initial
ref advertisement. In its place a server will export a list of
capabilities and commands which it supports in a capability
advertisement. A client can then request that a particular command be
executed by providing a number of capabilities and command specific
parameters. At the completion of a command, a client can request that
another command be executed or can terminate the connection by sending a
flush packet.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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