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2018-05-30Merge branch 'bw/ref-prefix-for-configured-refspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
"git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured refspec. * bw/ref-prefix-for-configured-refspec: (38 commits) fetch: generate ref-prefixes when using a configured refspec refspec: consolidate ref-prefix generation logic submodule: convert push_unpushed_submodules to take a struct refspec remote: convert check_push_refs to take a struct refspec remote: convert match_push_refs to take a struct refspec http-push: store refspecs in a struct refspec transport: remove transport_verify_remote_names send-pack: store refspecs in a struct refspec transport: convert transport_push to take a struct refspec push: convert to use struct refspec push: check for errors earlier remote: convert match_explicit_refs to take a struct refspec remote: convert get_ref_match to take a struct refspec remote: convert query_refspecs to take a struct refspec remote: convert apply_refspecs to take a struct refspec remote: convert get_stale_heads to take a struct refspec fetch: convert prune_refs to take a struct refspec fetch: convert get_ref_map to take a struct refspec fetch: convert do_fetch to take a struct refspec refspec: remove the deprecated functions ...
2018-05-18transport: remove transport_verify_remote_namesLibravatar Brandon Williams1-2/+0
Remove 'transprot_verify_remote_names()' because all callers have migrated to using 'struct refspec' which performs the same checks in 'parse_refspec()'. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18transport: convert transport_push to take a struct refspecLibravatar Brandon Williams1-1/+1
Convert 'transport_push()' to take a 'struct refspec' as a parameter instead of an array of strings which represent refspecs. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-08Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+17
The beginning of the next-gen transfer protocol. * bw/protocol-v2: (35 commits) remote-curl: don't request v2 when pushing remote-curl: implement stateless-connect command http: eliminate "# service" line when using protocol v2 http: don't always add Git-Protocol header http: allow providing extra headers for http requests remote-curl: store the protocol version the server responded with remote-curl: create copy of the service name pkt-line: add packet_buf_write_len function transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect transport-helper: refactor process_connect_service transport-helper: remove name parameter connect: don't request v2 when pushing connect: refactor git_connect to only get the protocol version once fetch-pack: support shallow requests fetch-pack: perform a fetch using v2 upload-pack: introduce fetch server command push: pass ref prefixes when pushing fetch: pass ref prefixes when fetching ls-remote: pass ref prefixes when requesting a remote's refs transport: convert transport_get_remote_refs to take a list of ref prefixes ...
2018-04-24ls-remote: send server options when using protocol v2Libravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+6
Teach ls-remote to optionally accept server options by specifying them on the cmdline via '-o' or '--server-option'. These server options are sent to the remote end when querying for the remote end's refs using protocol version 2. If communicating using a protocol other than v2 the provided options are ignored and not sent to the remote end. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-24Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2' into HEADLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+17
* bw/protocol-v2: (35 commits) remote-curl: don't request v2 when pushing remote-curl: implement stateless-connect command http: eliminate "# service" line when using protocol v2 http: don't always add Git-Protocol header http: allow providing extra headers for http requests remote-curl: store the protocol version the server responded with remote-curl: create copy of the service name pkt-line: add packet_buf_write_len function transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect transport-helper: refactor process_connect_service transport-helper: remove name parameter connect: don't request v2 when pushing connect: refactor git_connect to only get the protocol version once fetch-pack: support shallow requests fetch-pack: perform a fetch using v2 upload-pack: introduce fetch server command push: pass ref prefixes when pushing fetch: pass ref prefixes when fetching ls-remote: pass ref prefixes when requesting a remote's refs transport: convert transport_get_remote_refs to take a list of ref prefixes ...
2018-03-15transport-helper: introduce stateless-connectLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+6
Introduce the transport-helper capability 'stateless-connect'. This capability indicates that the transport-helper can be requested to run the 'stateless-connect' command which should attempt to make a stateless connection with a remote end. Once established, the connection can be used by the git client to communicate with the remote end natively in a stateless-rpc manner as supported by protocol v2. This means that the client must send everything the server needs in a single request as the client must not assume any state-storing on the part of the server or transport. If a stateless connection cannot be established then the remote-helper will respond in the same manner as the 'connect' command indicating that the client should fallback to using the dumb remote-helper commands. A future patch will implement the 'stateless-connect' capability in our http remote-helper (remote-curl) so that protocol v2 can be used using the http transport. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-15transport: convert transport_get_remote_refs to take a list of ref prefixesLibravatar Brandon Williams1-1/+11
Teach transport_get_remote_refs() to accept a list of ref prefixes, which will be sent to the server for use in filtering when using protocol v2. (This list will be ignored when not using protocol v2.) Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-13Merge branch 'jh/partial-clone'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and unpacking objects, have been told how to omit certain objects using the filtering mechanism introduced by the jh/object-filtering topic, and also mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing objects, taking advantage of the mechanism introduced by the jh/fsck-promisors topic. * jh/partial-clone: t5616: test bulk prefetch after partial fetch fetch: inherit filter-spec from partial clone t5616: end-to-end tests for partial clone fetch-pack: restore save_commit_buffer after use unpack-trees: batch fetching of missing blobs clone: partial clone partial-clone: define partial clone settings in config fetch: support filters fetch: refactor calculation of remote list fetch-pack: test support excluding large blobs fetch-pack: add --no-filter fetch-pack, index-pack, transport: partial clone upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone
2018-02-13Merge branch 'jh/fsck-promisors'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that promises to make them available on-demand and lazily. * jh/fsck-promisors: gc: do not repack promisor packfiles rev-list: support termination at promisor objects sha1_file: support lazily fetching missing objects introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object index-pack: refactor writing of .keep files fsck: support promisor objects as CLI argument fsck: support referenced promisor objects fsck: support refs pointing to promisor objects fsck: introduce partialclone extension extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension
2017-12-14transport: make transport vtable more privateLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-52/+2
Move the definition of the transport-specific functions provided by transports, whether declared in transport.c or transport-helper.c, into an internal header. This means that transport-using code (as opposed to transport-declaring code) can no longer access these functions (without importing the internal header themselves), making it clear that they should use the transport_*() functions instead, and also allowing the interface between the transport mechanism and an individual transport to independently evolve. This is superficially a reversal of commit 824d5776c3f2 ("Refactor struct transport_ops inlined into struct transport", 2007-09-19). However, the scope of the involved variables was neither affected nor discussed in that commit, and I think that the advantages in making those functions more private outweigh the advantages described in that commit's commit message. A minor additional point is that the code has gotten more complicated since then, in that the function-pointer variables are potentially mutated twice (once initially and once if transport_take_over() is invoked), increasing the value of corralling them into their own struct. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-12transport: remove unused "push" in vtableLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-1/+0
After commit 0d0bac67ce3b ("transport: drop support for git-over-rsync", 2016-02-01), no transport in Git populates the "push" entry in the transport vtable. Remove this entry. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-08fetch-pack, index-pack, transport: partial cloneLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-05introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor objectLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-0/+11
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>
2017-02-08for_each_alternate_ref: pass name/oid instead of ref structLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Breaking down the fields in the interface makes it easier to change the backend of for_each_alternate_ref to something that doesn't use "struct ref" internally. The only field that callers actually look at is the oid, anyway. The refname is kept in the interface as a plausible thing for future code to want. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-31Merge branch 'bw/push-submodule-only'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+16
"git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject. * bw/push-submodule-only: push: add option to push only submodules submodules: add RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ONLY value transport: reformat flag #defines to be more readable
2016-12-27Merge branch 'bw/transport-protocol-policy'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+10
Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration mechanism. * bw/transport-protocol-policy: http: respect protocol.*.allow=user for http-alternates transport: add from_user parameter to is_transport_allowed http: create function to get curl allowed protocols transport: add protocol policy config option http: always warn if libcurl version is too old lib-proto-disable: variable name fix
2016-12-20push: add option to push only submodulesLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+1
Teach push the --recurse-submodules=only option. This enables push to recursively push all unpushed submodules while leaving the superproject unpushed. This is a desirable feature in a scenario where updates to the superproject are handled automatically by some other means, perhaps a tool like Gerrit code review. In this scenario, a developer could make a change which spans multiple submodules and then push their commits for code review. Upon completion of the code review, their commits can be accepted and applied to their respective submodules while the code review tool can then automatically update the superproject to the most recent SHA1 of each submodule. This would reduce the merge conflicts in the superproject that could occur if multiple people are contributing to the same submodule. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-20transport: reformat flag #defines to be more readableLibravatar Brandon Williams1-15/+15
All of the #defines for the TRANSPORT_* flags are hardcoded to be powers of two. This can be error prone when adding a new flag and is difficult to read. Update these defines to instead use a shift operation to generate the flags and reformat them. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-15transport: add from_user parameter to is_transport_allowedLibravatar Brandon Williams1-3/+10
Add a from_user parameter to is_transport_allowed() to allow http to be able to distinguish between protocol restrictions for redirects versus initial requests. CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS can now be set differently from CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS to disallow use of protocols with the "user" policy in redirects. This change allows callers to query if a transport protocol is allowed, given that the caller knows that the protocol is coming from the user (1) or not from the user (0) such as redirects in libcurl. If unknown a -1 should be provided which falls back to reading `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` to determine if the protocol came from the user. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-15http: always warn if libcurl version is too oldLibravatar Brandon Williams1-6/+0
Always warn if libcurl version is too old because: 1. Even without a protocol whitelist, newer versions of curl have all non-standard protocols disabled by default. 2. A future patch will introduce default "known-good" and "known-bad" protocols which are allowed/disallowed by 'is_transport_allowed' which older version of libcurl can't respect. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-27Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git push" and "git fetch" reports from what old object to what new object each ref was updated, using abbreviated refnames, and they attempt to align the columns for this and other pieces of information. The way these codepaths compute how many display columns to allocate for the object names portion of this output has been updated to match the recent "auto scale the default abbreviation length" change. * jc/abbrev-auto: transport: compute summary-width dynamically transport: allow summary-width to be computed dynamically fetch: pass summary_width down the callchain transport: pass summary_width down the callchain
2016-10-27Merge branch 'lt/abbrev-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
Allow the default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, to scale as the repository grows. The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself. * lt/abbrev-auto: abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation abbrev: prepare for new world order abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizing
2016-10-21transport: allow summary-width to be computed dynamicallyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Now we have identified three callchains that have a set of refs that they want to show their <old, new> object names in an aligned output, we can replace their reference to the constant TRANSPORT_SUMMARY_WIDTH with a helper function call to transport_summary_width() that takes the set of ref as a parameter. This step does not yet iterate over the refs and compute, which is left as an exercise to the readers. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'nd/shallow-deepen'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>" and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and "Give me only the history since that version". * nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits) fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits upload-pack: add get_reachable_list() upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions refs: add expand_ref() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with() upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip() upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines ...
2016-10-03abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizingLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
We'll be introducing a new way to decide the default abbreviation length by initialising DEFAULT_ABBREV to -1 to signal the first call to "find unique abbreviation" codepath to compute a reasonable value based on the number of objects we have to avoid collisions. We have long relied on DEFAULT_ABBREV being a positive concrete value that is used as the abbreviation length when no extra configuration or command line option has overridden it. Some codepaths wants to use such a positive concrete default value even before making their first request to actually trigger the computation for the auto sized default. Introduce FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV and use it to the code that attempts to align the report from "git fetch". For now, this macro is also used to initialize the default_abbrev variable, but the auto-sizing code will use -1 and then use the value of FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV as the starting point of auto-sizing. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-14push: accept push optionsLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+7
This implements everything that is required on the client side to make use of push options from the porcelain push command. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commitsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
In git-fetch, --depth argument is always relative with the latest remote refs. This makes it a bit difficult to cover this use case, where the user wants to make the shallow history, say 3 levels deeper. It would work if remote refs have not moved yet, but nobody can guarantee that, especially when that use case is performed a couple months after the last clone or "git fetch --depth". Also, modifying shallow boundary using --depth does not work well with clones created by --since or --not. This patch fixes that. A new argument --deepen=<N> will add <N> more (*) parent commits to the current history regardless of where remote refs are. Have/Want negotiation is still respected. So if remote refs move, the server will send two chunks: one between "have" and "want" and another to extend shallow history. In theory, the client could send no "want"s in order to get the second chunk only. But the protocol does not allow that. Either you send no want lines, which means ls-remote; or you have to send at least one want line that carries deep-relative to the server.. The main work was done by Dongcan Jiang. I fixed it up here and there. And of course all the bugs belong to me. (*) We could even support --deepen=<N> where <N> is negative. In that case we can cut some history from the shallow clone. This operation (and --depth=<shorter depth>) does not require interaction with remote side (and more complicated to implement as a result). Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-excludeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-sinceLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-12connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operationsLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+8
Sometimes it is necessary to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only operation on networks where name lookups may return a non-routable address and stall remote operations. The ssh(1) command has an equivalent switches which we may pass when we run them. There may be old ssh(1) implementations out there which do not support these switches; they should report the appropriate error in that case. rsync support is untouched for now since it is deprecated and scheduled to be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-20Convert struct ref to use object_id.Libravatar brian m. carlson1-4/+4
Use struct object_id in three fields in struct ref and convert all the necessary places that use it. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-09-28Sync with v2.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
2015-09-28Sync with 2.3.10Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
2015-09-25transport: refactor protocol whitelist codeLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+13
The current callers only want to die when their transport is prohibited. But future callers want to query the mechanism without dying. Let's break out a few query functions, and also save the results in a static list so we don't have to re-parse for each query. Based-on-a-patch-by: Blake Burkhart <bburky@bburky.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-23transport: add a protocol-whitelist environment variableLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+7
If we are cloning an untrusted remote repository into a sandbox, we may also want to fetch remote submodules in order to get the complete view as intended by the other side. However, that opens us up to attacks where a malicious user gets us to clone something they would not otherwise have access to (this is not necessarily a problem by itself, but we may then act on the cloned contents in a way that exposes them to the attacker). Ideally such a setup would sandbox git entirely away from high-value items, but this is not always practical or easy to set up (e.g., OS network controls may block multiple protocols, and we would want to enable some but not others). We can help this case by providing a way to restrict particular protocols. We use a whitelist in the environment. This is more annoying to set up than a blacklist, but defaults to safety if the set of protocols git supports grows). If no whitelist is specified, we continue to default to allowing all protocols (this is an "unsafe" default, but since the minority of users will want this sandboxing effect, it is the only sensible one). A note on the tests: ideally these would all be in a single test file, but the git-daemon and httpd test infrastructure is an all-or-nothing proposition rather than a test-by-test prerequisite. By putting them all together, we would be unable to test the file-local code on machines without apache. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19push: support signing pushes iff the server supports itLibravatar Dave Borowitz1-2/+3
Add a new flag --sign=true (or --sign=false), which means the same thing as the original --signed (or --no-signed). Give it a third value --sign=if-asked to tell push and send-pack to send a push certificate if and only if the server advertised a push cert nonce. If not, warn the user that their push may not be as secure as they thought. Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19transport: remove git_transport_options.push_certLibravatar Dave Borowitz1-1/+0
This field was set in transport_set_option, but never read in the push code. The push code basically ignores the smart_options field entirely, and derives its options from the flags arguments to the push* callbacks. Note that in git_transport_push there are already several args set from flags that have no corresponding field in git_transport_options; after this change, push_cert is just like those. Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-07push.c: add an --atomic argumentLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-0/+1
Add a command line argument to the git push command to request atomic pushes. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-15push: the beginning of "git push --signed"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
While signed tags and commits assert that the objects thusly signed came from you, who signed these objects, there is not a good way to assert that you wanted to have a particular object at the tip of a particular branch. My signing v2.0.1 tag only means I want to call the version v2.0.1, and it does not mean I want to push it out to my 'master' branch---it is likely that I only want it in 'maint', so the signature on the object alone is insufficient. The only assurance to you that 'maint' points at what I wanted to place there comes from your trust on the hosting site and my authentication with it, which cannot easily audited later. Introduce a mechanism that allows you to sign a "push certificate" (for the lack of better name) every time you push, asserting that what object you are pushing to update which ref that used to point at what other object. Think of it as a cryptographic protection for ref updates, similar to signed tags/commits but working on an orthogonal axis. The basic flow based on this mechanism goes like this: 1. You push out your work with "git push --signed". 2. The sending side learns where the remote refs are as usual, together with what protocol extension the receiving end supports. If the receiving end does not advertise the protocol extension "push-cert", an attempt to "git push --signed" fails. Otherwise, a text file, that looks like the following, is prepared in core: certificate version 0.1 pusher Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1315427886 -0700 7339ca65... 21580ecb... refs/heads/master 3793ac56... 12850bec... refs/heads/next The file begins with a few header lines, which may grow as we gain more experience. The 'pusher' header records the name of the signer (the value of user.signingkey configuration variable, falling back to GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME|EMAIL}) and the time of the certificate generation. After the header, a blank line follows, followed by a copy of the protocol message lines. Each line shows the old and the new object name at the tip of the ref this push tries to update, in the way identical to how the underlying "git push" protocol exchange tells the ref updates to the receiving end (by recording the "old" object name, the push certificate also protects against replaying). It is expected that new command packet types other than the old-new-refname kind will be included in push certificate in the same way as would appear in the plain vanilla command packets in unsigned pushes. The user then is asked to sign this push certificate using GPG, formatted in a way similar to how signed tag objects are signed, and the result is sent to the other side (i.e. receive-pack). In the protocol exchange, this step comes immediately before the sender tells what the result of the push should be, which in turn comes before it sends the pack data. 3. When the receiving end sees a push certificate, the certificate is written out as a blob. The pre-receive hook can learn about the certificate by checking GIT_PUSH_CERT environment variable, which, if present, tells the object name of this blob, and make the decision to allow or reject this push. Additionally, the post-receive hook can also look at the certificate, which may be a good place to log all the received certificates for later audits. Because a push certificate carry the same information as the usual command packets in the protocol exchange, we can omit the latter when a push certificate is in use and reduce the protocol overhead. This however is not included in this patch to make it easier to review (in other words, the series at this step should never be released without the remainder of the series, as it implements an interim protocol that will be incompatible with the final one). As such, the documentation update for the protocol is left out of this step. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallowLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
The same steps are done as in when --update-shallow is not given. The only difference is we now add all shallow commits in "ours" and "theirs" to .git/shallow (aka "step 8"). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10clone: support remote shallow repositoryLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
Cloning from a shallow repository does not follow the "8 steps for new .git/shallow" because if it does we need to get through step 6 for all refs. That means commit walking down to the bottom. Instead the rule to create .git/shallow is simpler and, more importantly, cheap: if a shallow commit is found in the pack, it's probably used (i.e. reachable from some refs), so we add it. Others are dropped. One may notice this method seems flawed by the word "probably". A shallow commit may not be reachable from any refs at all if it's attached to an object island (a group of objects that are not reachable by any refs). If that object island is not complete, a new fetch request may send more objects to connect it to some ref. At that time, because we incorrectly installed the shallow commit in this island, the user will not see anything after that commit (fsck is still ok). This is not desired. Given that object islands are rare (C Git never sends such islands for security reasons) and do not really harm the repository integrity, a tradeoff is made to surprise the user occasionally but work faster everyday. A new option --strict could be added later that follows exactly the 8 steps. "git prune" can also learn to remove dangling objects _and_ the shallow commits that are attached to them from .git/shallow. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10transport.h: remove send_pack prototype, already defined in send-pack.hLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-6/+0
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09Merge branch 'jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The auto-tag-following code in "git fetch" tries to reuse the same transport twice when the serving end does not cooperate and does not give tags that point to commits that are asked for as part of the primary transfer. Unfortunately, Git-aware transport helper interface is not designed to be used more than once, hence this does not work over smart-http transfer. * jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch: builtin/fetch.c: Fix a sparse warning fetch: work around "transport-take-over" hack fetch: refactor code that fetches leftover tags fetch: refactor code that prepares a transport fetch: rename file-scope global "transport" to "gtransport" t5802: add test for connect helper
2013-08-07fetch: work around "transport-take-over" hackLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
A Git-aware "connect" transport allows the "transport_take_over" to redirect generic transport requests like fetch(), push_refs() and get_refs_list() to the native Git transport handling methods. The take-over process replaces transport->data with a fake data that these method implementations understand. While this hack works OK for a single request, it breaks when the transport needs to make more than one requests. transport->data that used to hold necessary information for the specific helper to work correctly is destroyed during the take-over process. One codepath that this matters is "git fetch" in auto-follow mode; when it does not get all the tags that ought to point at the history it got (which can be determined by looking at the peeled tags in the initial advertisement) from the primary transfer, it internally makes a second request to complete the fetch. Because "take-over" hack has already destroyed the data necessary to talk to the transport helper by the time this happens, the second request cannot make a request to the helper to make another connection to fetch these additional tags. Mark such a transport as "cannot_reuse", and use a separate transport to perform the backfill fetch in order to work around this breakage. Note that this problem does not manifest itself when running t5802, because our upload-pack gives you all the necessary auto-followed tags during the primary transfer. You would need to step through "git fetch" in a debugger, stop immediately after the primary transfer finishes and writes these auto-followed tags, remove the tag references and repack/prune the repository to convince the "find-non-local-tags" procedure that the primary transfer failed to give us all the necessary tags, and then let it continue, in order to trigger the bug in the secondary transfer this patch fixes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22push --force-with-lease: implement logic to populate old_sha1_expect[]Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
This plugs the push_cas_option data collected by the command line option parser to the transport system with a new function apply_push_cas(), which is called after match_push_refs() has already been called. At this point, we know which remote we are talking to, and what remote refs we are going to update, so we can fill in the details that may have been missing from the command line, such as (1) what abbreviated refname the user gave us matches the actual refname at the remote; and (2) which remote-tracking branch in our local repository to read the value of the object to expect at the remote. to populate the old_sha1_expect[] field of each of the remote ref. As stated in the documentation, the use of remote-tracking branch as the default is a tentative one, and we may come up with a better logic as we gain experience. Still nobody uses this information, which is the topic of the next patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-08cache.h: move remote/connect API out of itLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
The definition of "struct ref" in "cache.h", a header file so central to the system, always confused me. This structure is not about the local ref used by sha1-name API to name local objects. It is what refspecs are expanded into, after finding out what refs the other side has, to define what refs are updated after object transfer succeeds to what values. It belongs to "remote.h" together with "struct refspec". While we are at it, also move the types and functions related to the Git transport connection to a new header file connect.h Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26Merge branch 'ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days: fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"
2013-06-18fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"Libravatar Phil Hord1-1/+1
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/ as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28clone: open a shortcut for connectivity checkLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+2
In order to make sure the cloned repository is good, we run "rev-list --objects --not --all $new_refs" on the repository. This is expensive on large repositories. This patch attempts to mitigate the impact in this special case. In the "good" clone case, we only have one pack. If all of the following are met, we can be sure that all objects reachable from the new refs exist, which is the intention of running "rev-list ...": - all refs point to an object in the pack - there are no dangling pointers in any object in the pack - no objects in the pack point to objects outside the pack The second and third checks can be done with the help of index-pack as a slight variation of --strict check (which introduces a new condition for the shortcut: pack transfer must be used and the number of objects large enough to call index-pack). The first is checked in check_everything_connected after we get an "ok" from index-pack. "index-pack + new checks" is still faster than the current "index-pack + rev-list", which is the whole point of this patch. If any of the conditions fail, we fall back to the good old but expensive "rev-list ..". In that case it's even more expensive because we have to pay for the new checks in index-pack. But that should only happen when the other side is either buggy or malicious. Cloning linux-2.6 over file:// before after real 3m25.693s 2m53.050s user 5m2.037s 4m42.396s sys 0m13.750s 0m16.574s A more realistic test with ssh:// over wireless before after real 11m26.629s 10m4.213s user 5m43.196s 5m19.444s sys 0m35.812s 0m37.630s This shortcut is not applied to shallow clones, partly because shallow clones should have no more objects than a usual fetch and the cost of rev-list is acceptable, partly to avoid dealing with corner cases when grafting is involved. This shortcut does not apply to unpack-objects code path either because the number of objects must be small in order to trigger that code path. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>