Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space. By moving
the things that discuss the protocol we can properly link from
e.g. lsrefs.unborn and protocol.version documentation to a manpage we
build by default.
So far we have been using the "gitformat-" prefix for the
documentation we've been moving over from Documentation/technical/*,
but for protocol documentation let's use "gitprotocol-*".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
"git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.
* jx/proc-receive-hook:
doc: add documentation for the proc-receive hook
transport: parse report options for tracking refs
t5411: test updates of remote-tracking branches
receive-pack: new config receive.procReceiveRefs
doc: add document for capability report-status-v2
New capability "report-status-v2" for git-push
receive-pack: feed report options to post-receive
receive-pack: add new proc-receive hook
t5411: add basic test cases for proc-receive hook
transport: not report a non-head push as a branch
Add ABNF notation for capability 'report-status-v2' which extends
capability 'report-status' by adding additional option lines.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two of our capabilities contain "sha1" in their names, but that's
historical. Clarify that object names are still to be given using
whatever object format has been negotiated using the "object-format"
capability.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document a capability that indicates which hash algorithms are in use by
both sides of a remote connection. Use the term "object-format", since
this is the term used for the repository extension as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 7171d8c15f ("upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as
capability"), we added a symref capability to the pack protocol, but it
was never documented. Adapt the patch notes from that commit and add
them to the capabilities documentation.
While we're at it, add a disclaimer to the top of
protocol-capabilities.txt noting that the doc only applies to v0/v1 of
the wire protocol.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach upload-pack to negotiate object filtering over the protocol and
to send filter parameters to pack-objects. This is intended for partial
clone and fetch.
The idea to make upload-pack configurable using uploadpack.allowFilter
comes from Jonathan Tan's work in [1].
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/f211093280b422c32cc1b7034130072f35c5ed51.1506714999.git.jonathantanmy@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
...
The pre/post receive hook may be interested in more information from the
user. This information can be transmitted when both client and server
support the "push-options" capability, which when used is a phase directly
after update commands ended by a flush pkt.
Similar to the atomic option, the server capability can be disabled via
the `receive.advertisePushOptions` config variable. While documenting
this, fix a nit in the `receive.advertiseAtomic` wording.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
This should allow the user to say "create a shallow clone of this branch
after version <some-tag>".
Short refs are accepted and expanded at the server side with expand_ref()
because we cannot expand (unknown) refs from the client side.
Like deepen-since, deepen-not cannot be used with deepen. But deepen-not
can be mixed with deepen-since. The result is exactly how you do the
command "git rev-list --since=... --not ref".
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should allow the user to say "create a shallow clone containing the
work from last year" (once the client side is fixed up, of course).
In theory deepen-since and deepen (aka --depth) can be used together to
draw the shallow boundary (whether it's intersection or union is up to
discussion, but if rev-list is used, it's likely intersection). However,
because deepen goes with a custom commit walker, we can't mix the two
yet.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the
server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names
an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out
of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the
branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by
transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated
cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability.
This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit,
for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole
repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g.
repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the
needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling
which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of
commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been
solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.)
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the atomic protocol option to allow
receive-pack to inform the client that it has
atomic push capability.
This commit makes the functionality introduced
in the previous commits go live for the serving
side. The changes in documentation reflect the
protocol capabilities of the server.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:
- Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
- Spell Linux as Capitalized;
- Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to prevent a valid push certificate for pushing into an
repository from getting replayed in a different push operation, send
a nonce string from the receive-pack process and have the signer
include it in the push certificate. The receiving end uses an HMAC
hash of the path to the repository it serves and the current time
stamp, hashed with a secret seed (the secret seed does not have to
be per-repository but can be defined in /etc/gitconfig) to generate
the nonce, in order to ensure that a random third party cannot forge
a nonce that looks like it originated from it.
The original nonce is exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE for the hooks
to examine and match against the value on the "nonce" header in the
certificate to notice a replay, but returned "nonce" header in the
push certificate is examined by receive-pack and the result is
exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS, whose value would be "OK"
if the nonce recorded in the certificate matches what we expect, so
that the hooks can more easily check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the interim protocol, we used to send the update commands even
though we already send a signed copy of the same information when
push certificate is in use. Update the send-pack/receive-pack pair
not to do so.
The notable thing on the receive-pack side is that it makes sure
that there is no command sent over the traditional protocol packet
outside the push certificate. Otherwise a pusher can claim to be
pushing one set of ref updates in the signed certificate while
issuing commands to update unrelated refs, and such an update will
evade later audits.
Finally, start documenting the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
See 3e63b21 (upload-pack: Implement no-done capability - 2011-03-14)
and 761ecf0 (fetch-pack: Implement no-done capability - 2011-03-14)
for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pack-protocol.txt explains in detail how multi_ack_detailed works and
what's the difference between no multi_ack, multi_ack and
multi_ack_detailed. No need to repeat here.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Up to now git has assumed that all servers are able to fix thin
packs. This is however not always the case.
Document the 'no-thin' capability and prevent send-pack from generating
a thin pack if the server advertises it.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
See 390eb36 (upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of
hidden refs - 2013-01-28) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added in c207e34 (fix push --quiet: add 'quiet'
capability to receive-pack, 2012-01-08) but never
documented.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added in ff5effd (include agent identifier in
capability string, 2012-08-03), but neither the syntax nor
the semantics were ever documented outside of the commit
message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The protocol-capabilities documentation notes that any
capabilities not explicitly mentioned for receive-pack work
only for upload-pack.
Receive-pack has advertised and understood side-band-64k
since 38a81b4 (receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside
side-band-64k, 2010-02-05), but we do not mention it
explicitly. Let's do so.
Note that receive-pack does not understand side-band, which
was obsolete by that point.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The report-status capability is understood by receive-pack,
not upload-pack.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both
sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and
send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully.
Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is
shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF
notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format.
Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the
upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt
describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress,
include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
