Merge branch 'ps/ls-remote-out-of-repo-fix' into maint-2.46

A recent update broke "git ls-remote" used outside a repository,
which has been corrected.

* ps/ls-remote-out-of-repo-fix:
  builtin/ls-remote: fall back to SHA1 outside of a repo

builtin/ls-remote.c

@@ -91,6 +91,21 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			     PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
 	dest = argv[0];
 
+	/*
+	 * TODO: This is buggy, but required for transport helpers. When a
+	 * transport helper advertises a "refspec", then we'd add that to a
+	 * list of refspecs via `refspec_append()`, which transitively depends
+	 * on `the_hash_algo`. Thus, when the hash algorithm isn't properly set
+	 * up, this would lead to a segfault.
+	 *
+	 * We really should fix this in the transport helper logic such that we
+	 * lazily parse refspec capabilities _after_ we have learned about the
+	 * remote's object format. Otherwise, we may end up misparsing refspecs
+	 * depending on what object hash the remote uses.
+	 */
+	if (!the_repository->hash_algo)
+		repo_set_hash_algo(the_repository, GIT_HASH_SHA1);
+
 	packet_trace_identity("ls-remote");
 
 	if (argc > 1) {

t/t5512-ls-remote.sh

@@ -402,4 +402,17 @@ test_expect_success 'v0 clients can handle multiple symrefs' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'helper with refspec capability fails gracefully' '
+	mkdir test-bin &&
+	write_script test-bin/git-remote-foo <<-EOF &&
+	echo import
+	echo refspec ${SQ}*:*${SQ}
+	EOF
+	(
+		PATH="$PWD/test-bin:$PATH" &&
+		export PATH &&
+		test_must_fail nongit git ls-remote foo::bar
+	)
+'
+
 test_done