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2018-10-25t5410: use longer path for sample scriptLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
t5410 creates a sample script "alternate-refs", and sets core.alternateRefsCommand to just "alternate-refs". That shouldn't work, as "." is not in our $PATH, and so we should not find it. However, due to a bug in run-command.c, we sometimes find it anyway! Even more confusing, this bug is only in the fork-based version of run-command. So the test passes on Linux (etc), but fails on Windows. In preparation for fixing the run-command bug, let's use a more complete path here. Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-09transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixesLibravatar Taylor Blau1-0/+8
The recently-introduced "core.alternateRefsCommand" allows callers to specify with high flexibility the tips that they wish to advertise from alternates. This flexibility comes at the cost of some inconvenience when the caller only wishes to limit the advertisement to one or more prefixes. For example, to advertise only tags, a caller using 'core.alternateRefsCommand' would have to do: $ git config core.alternateRefsCommand ' \ f() { git -C "$1" for-each-ref \ refs/tags --format="%(objectname)" }; f "$@"' The above is cumbersome to write, so let's introduce a "core.alternateRefsPrefixes" to address this common case. Instead, the caller can run: $ git config core.alternateRefsPrefixes 'refs/tags' Which will behave identically to the longer example using "core.alternateRefsCommand". Since the value of "core.alternateRefsPrefixes" is appended to 'git for-each-ref' and then executed, include a "--" before taking the configured value to avoid misinterpreting arguments as flags to 'git for-each-ref'. In the case that the caller wishes to specify multiple prefixes, they may separate them by whitespace. If "core.alternateRefsCommand" is set, it will take precedence over "core.alternateRefsPrefixes". Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-09transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommandLibravatar Taylor Blau1-0/+33
When in a repository containing one or more alternates, Git would sometimes like to list references from those alternates. For example, 'git receive-pack' lists the "tips" pointed to by references in those alternates as special ".have" references. Listing ".have" references is designed to make pushing changes from upstream to a fork a lightweight operation, by advertising to the pusher that the fork already has the objects (via its alternate). Thus, the client can avoid sending them. However, when the alternate (upstream, in the previous example) has a pathologically large number of references, the initial advertisement is too expensive. In fact, it can dominate any such optimization where the pusher avoids sending certain objects. Introduce "core.alternateRefsCommand" in order to provide a facility to limit or filter alternate references. This can be used, for example, to filter out references the alternate does not wish to send (for space concerns, or otherwise) during the initial advertisement. Let the repository that has alternates configure this command to avoid trusting the alternate to provide us a safe command to run in the shell. To find the alternate, pass its absolute path as the first argument. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>