From edc9caf7e2ecd3d5327e78a3e539eda61a0e4d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Williams Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:31:34 -0700 Subject: transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index 4a584f3c5d..cd9b34d230 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ Capabilities for Pushing + Supported commands: 'connect'. +'stateless-connect':: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication + using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation + for the stateless-connect command for more information. ++ +Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'. + 'push':: Can discover remote refs and push local commits and the history leading up to them to new or existing remote refs. @@ -136,6 +144,14 @@ Capabilities for Fetching + Supported commands: 'connect'. +'stateless-connect':: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication + using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation + for the stateless-connect command for more information. ++ +Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'. + 'fetch':: Can discover remote refs and transfer objects reachable from them to the local object store. @@ -375,6 +391,22 @@ Supported if the helper has the "export" capability. + Supported if the helper has the "connect" capability. +'stateless-connect' :: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Connects to the given remote service for communication using + git's wire-protocol version 2. Valid replies to this command + are empty line (connection established), 'fallback' (no smart + transport support, fall back to dumb transports) and just + exiting with error message printed (can't connect, don't bother + trying to fall back). After line feed terminating the positive + (empty) response, the output of the service starts. Messages + (both request and response) must consist of zero or more + PKT-LINEs, terminating in a flush packet. The client must not + expect the server to store any state in between request-response + pairs. After the connection ends, the remote helper exits. ++ +Supported if the helper has the "stateless-connect" capability. + If a fatal error occurs, the program writes the error message to stderr and exits. The caller should expect that a suitable error message has been printed if the child closes the connection without -- cgit v1.2.3