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René Scharfe
96099726dd archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archive
Every %(describe) placeholder in $Format:...$ strings in files with the
attribute export-subst is expanded by calling git describe.  This can
potentially result in a lot of such calls per archive.  That's OK for
local repositories under control of the user of git archive, but could
be a problem for hosted repositories.

Expand only a single %(describe) placeholder per archive for now to
avoid denial-of-service attacks.  We can make this limit configurable
later if needed, but let's start out simple.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-11 13:22:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3eebb3e044 Merge branch 'rs/archive-plug-leak-refname'
Memleak fix.

* rs/archive-plug-leak-refname:
  archive: release refname after use
2020-11-25 15:24:53 -08:00
René Scharfe
1c3e412916 archive: release refname after use
parse_treeish_arg() uses dwim_ref() to set refname to a strdup'd string.
Release it after use.  Also remove the const qualifier from the refname
member to signify that ownership of the string is handed to the struct,
leaving cleanup duty with the caller of parse_treeish_arg(), thus
avoiding a cast.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-16 14:21:43 -08:00
René Scharfe
cde8ea9c66 archive: support compression levels beyond 9
Compression programs like zip, gzip, bzip2 and xz allow to adjust the
trade-off between CPU cost and size gain with numerical options from -1
for fast compression and -9 for high compression ratio.  zip also
accepts -0 for storing files verbatim.  git archive directly support
these single-digit compression levels for ZIP output and passes them to
filters like gzip.

Zstandard additionally supports compression level options -10 to -19, or
up to -22 with --ultra.  This *seems* to work with git archive in most
cases, e.g. it will produce an archive with -19 without complaining, but
since it only supports single-digit compression level options this is
the same as -1 -9 and thus -9.

Allow git archive to accept multi-digit compression levels to support
the full range supported by zstd.  Explicitly reject them for the ZIP
format, as otherwise deflateInit2() would just fail with a somewhat
cryptic "stream consistency error".

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-09 11:25:45 -08:00
René Scharfe
2947a7930d archive: add --add-file
Allow users to append non-tracked files.  This simplifies the generation
of source packages with a few extra files, e.g. containing version
information.  They get the same access times and user information as
tracked files.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-19 15:56:06 -07:00
René Scharfe
200589abcb archive: read short blobs in archive.c::write_archive_entry()
Centralize reading of symlink destinations and the contents of regular
files that are too small to be streamed.  This reduces code duplication
and allows future patches to add support for adding non-tracked files to
archives.  The backends are expected to stream blobs if buffer is NULL.

object_file_to_archive() is only called from archive.c and thus no
longer exported.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-19 15:56:05 -07:00
brian m. carlson
c397aac02f convert: provide additional metadata to filters
Now that we have the codebase wired up to pass any additional metadata
to filters, let's collect the additional metadata that we'd like to
pass.

The two main places we pass this metadata are checkouts and archives.
In these two situations, reading HEAD isn't a valid option, since HEAD
isn't updated for checkouts until after the working tree is written and
archives can accept an arbitrary tree.  In other situations, HEAD will
usually reflect the refname of the branch in current use.

We pass a smaller amount of data in other cases, such as git cat-file,
where we can really only logically know about the blob.

This commit updates only the parts of the checkout code where we don't
use unpack_trees.  That function and callers of it will be handled in a
future commit.

In the archive code, we leak a small amount of memory, since nothing we
pass in the archiver argument structure is freed.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-16 11:37:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4aeeef3773 Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl'
Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function
declarlation.

* dl/no-extern-in-func-decl:
  *.[ch]: manually align parameter lists
  *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed
  *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch
2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
Denton Liu
ad6dad0996 *.[ch]: manually align parameter lists
In previous patches, extern was mechanically removed from function
declarations without care to formatting, causing parameter lists to be
misaligned. Manually format changed sections such that the parameter
lists should be realigned.

Viewing this patch with 'git diff -w' should produce no output.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05 15:20:10 +09:00
Denton Liu
554544276a *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations.
Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are
caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with
processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern`
declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch.

This was the Coccinelle patch used:

	@@
	type T;
	identifier f;
	@@
	- extern
	  T f(...);

and it was run with:

	$ git ls-files \*.{c,h} |
		grep -v ^compat/ |
		xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place

Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly
copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05 15:20:06 +09:00
brian m. carlson
bbf05cf70e archive: convert struct archiver_args to object_id
Change the commit_sha1 member to be called "commit_oid" and change it to
be a pointer to struct object_id.  Additionally, update some uses of
GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ and hard-coded values to use the_hash_algo instead.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 11:57:39 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
00436bf1b1 archive: initialize archivers earlier
Initialize archivers as soon as possible when running git-archive.
Various non-obvious behavior depends on having the archivers
initialized, such as determining the desired archival format from the
provided filename.

Since 08716b3c11 ("archive: refactor file extension format-guessing",
2011-06-21), archive_format_from_filename() has used the registered
archivers to match filenames (provided via --output) to archival
formats. However, when git-archive is executed with --remote, format
detection happens before the archivers have been registered. This causes
archives from remotes to always be generated as TAR files, regardless of
the actual filename (unless an explicit --format is provided).

This patch fixes that behavior; archival format is determined properly
from the output filename, even when --remote is used.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-26 10:17:59 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5ade034464 Merge branch 'en/incl-forward-decl'
Code hygiene improvement for the header files.

* en/incl-forward-decl:
  Remove forward declaration of an enum
  compat/precompose_utf8.h: use more common include guard style
  urlmatch.h: fix include guard
  Move definition of enum branch_track from cache.h to branch.h
  alloc: make allocate_alloc_state and clear_alloc_state more consistent
  Add missing includes and forward declarations
2018-08-20 12:41:32 -07:00
Elijah Newren
ef3ca95475 Add missing includes and forward declarations
I looped over the toplevel header files, creating a temporary two-line C
program for each consisting of
  #include "git-compat-util.h"
  #include $HEADER
This patch is the result of manually fixing errors in compiling those
tiny programs.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-15 11:52:09 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b612ee202a archive.c: avoid access to the_index
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13 14:14:43 -07:00
brian m. carlson
e5ec981a4b archive: convert sha1_file_to_archive to struct object_id
Convert this function to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename
it object_file_to_archive.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-14 09:23:48 -07:00
brian m. carlson
015ff4f822 archive: convert write_archive_entry_fn_t to object_id
Convert the write_archive_entry_fn_t type to use a pointer to struct
object_id.  Convert various static functions in the tar and zip
archivers also.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-14 09:23:48 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
dddbad728c timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps
Git's source code assumes that unsigned long is at least as precise as
time_t. Which is incorrect, and causes a lot of problems, in particular
where unsigned long is only 32-bit (notably on Windows, even in 64-bit
versions).

So let's just use a more appropriate data type instead. In preparation
for this, we introduce the new `timestamp_t` data type.

By necessity, this is a very, very large patch, as it has to replace all
timestamps' data type in one go.

As we will use a data type that is not necessarily identical to `time_t`,
we need to be very careful to use `time_t` whenever we interact with the
system functions, and `timestamp_t` everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-27 13:07:39 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
eb0224c617 archive: read local configuration
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository.  "git archive" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour.

Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables are honoured.

[jc: stole tests from peff]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-11-22 13:55:20 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f3e743a0d9 archive: convert to use parse_pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:07 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9cb513b798 archive: delegate blob reading to backend
archive-tar.c and archive-zip.c now perform conversion check, with
help of sha1_file_to_archive() from archive.c

This gives backends more freedom in dealing with (streaming) large
blobs.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-03 10:22:56 -07:00
Jeff King
7b97730b76 upload-archive: allow user to turn off filters
Some tar filters may be very expensive to run, so sites do
not want to expose them via upload-archive. This patch lets
users configure tar.<filter>.remote to turn them off.

By default, gzip filters are left on, as they are about as
expensive as creating zip archives.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:12:35 -07:00
Jeff King
56baa61d01 archive: move file extension format-guessing lower
The process for guessing an archive output format based on
the filename is something like this:

  a. parse --output in cmd_archive; check the filename
     against a static set of mapping heuristics (right now
     it just matches ".zip" for zip files).

  b. if found, stick a fake "--format=zip" at the beginning
     of the arguments list (if the user did specify a
     --format manually, the later option will override our
     fake one)

  c. if it's a remote call, ship the arguments to the remote
     (including the fake), which will call write_archive on
     their end

  d. if it's local, ship the arguments to write_archive
     locally

There are two problems:

  1. The set of mappings is static and at too high a level.
     The write_archive level is going to check config for
     user-defined formats, some of which will specify
     extensions. We need to delay lookup until those are
     parsed, so we can match against them.

  2. For a remote archive call, our set of mappings (or
     formats) may not match the remote side's. This is OK in
     practice right now, because all versions of git
     understand "zip" and "tar". But as new formats are
     added, there is going to be a mismatch between what the
     client can do and what the remote server can do.

To fix (1), this patch refactors the location guessing to
happen at the write_archive level, instead of the
cmd_archive level. So instead of sticking a fake --format
field in the argv list, we actually pass a "name hint" down
the callchain; this hint is used at the appropriate time to
guess the format (if one hasn't been given already).

This patch leaves (2) unfixed. The name_hint is converted to
a "--format" option as before, and passed to the remote.
This means the local side's idea of how extensions map to
formats will take precedence.

Another option would be to pass the name hint to the remote
side and let the remote choose. This isn't a good idea for
two reasons:

  1. There's no room in the protocol for passing that
     information. We can pass a new argument, but older
     versions of git on the server will choke on it.

  2. Letting the remote side decide creates a silent
     inconsistency in user experience. Consider the case
     that the locally installed git knows about the "tar.gz"
     format, but a remote server doesn't.

     Running "git archive -o foo.tar.gz" will use the tar.gz
     format. If we use --remote, and the local side chooses
     the format, then we send "--format=tar.gz" to the
     remote, which will complain about the unknown format.
     But if we let the remote side choose the format, then
     it will realize that it doesn't know about "tar.gz" and
     output uncompressed tar without even issuing a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:12:35 -07:00
Jeff King
4d7c989863 archive: pass archiver struct to write_archive callback
The current archivers are very static; when you are in the
write_tar_archive function, you know you are writing a tar.
However, to facilitate runtime-configurable archivers
that will share a common write function we need to tell the
function which archiver was used.

As a convenience, we also provide an opaque data pointer in
the archiver struct so that individual archivers can put
something useful there when they register themselves.
Technically they could just use the "name" field to look in
an internal map of names to data, but this is much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:12:35 -07:00
Jeff King
13e0f88d4a archive: refactor list of archive formats
Most of the tar and zip code was nicely split out into two
abstracted files which knew only about their specific
formats. The entry point to this code was a single "write
archive" function.

However, as these basic formats grow more complex (e.g., by
handling multiple file extensions and format names), a
static list of the entry point functions won't be enough.
Instead, let's provide a way for the tar and zip code to
tell the main archive code what they support by registering
archiver names and functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:12:35 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
ba053ea96c archive: do not read .gitattributes in working directory
The old behaviour still remains with --worktree-attributes, and it is
always on for the legacy "git tar-tree".

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-17 21:05:49 -07:00
Rene Scharfe
f15f736d38 archive: declare struct archiver where it's needed
Move the declaration of struct archiver to archive.c, as this is the only
file left where it is used.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-25 17:21:04 -07:00
Rene Scharfe
7f4d0511af archive: define MAX_ARGS where it's needed
MAX_EXTRA_ARGS is not used anymore, so remove it.  MAX_ARGS is used only
in builtin-upload-archive.c, so define it there.  Also report the actual
value we're comparing against when the number of args is too big.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-25 17:20:55 -07:00
Rene Scharfe
c088543553 archive: move parameter parsing code to archive.c
write_archive() in archive.c is the only callsite for the command line
parsing functions located in builtin-archive.c.  Move them to the place
where they are used, un-export them and make them static, as hinted at
by Stephan.

Cc: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-25 17:18:06 -07:00
Rene Scharfe
6e94e6835f archive: add write_archive()
Both archive and upload-archive have to parse command line arguments and
then call the archiver specific write function.  Move the duplicate code
to a new function, write_archive().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-25 17:16:12 -07:00
René Scharfe
3a176c6cde archive: make zip compression level independent from core git
zlib_compression_level is the compression level used for git's object store.
It's 1 by default, which is the fastest setting.  This variable is also used
as the default compression level for ZIP archives created by git archive.

For archives, however, zlib's own default of 6 is more appropriate, as it's
favouring small size over speed -- archive creation is not that performance
critical most of the time.

This patch makes git archive independent from git's internal compression
level setting.  It affects invocations of git archive without explicitly
specified compression level option, only.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-19 11:17:43 -07:00
René Scharfe
489e351ea0 archive: remove extra arguments parsing code
Replace the code that calls backend specific argument parsers by a
simple flag mechanism.  This reduces code size and complexity.

We can add back such a mechanism (based on incremental parse_opt(),
perhaps) when we need it.  The compression level parameter, though,
is going to be shared by future compressing backends like tgz.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:18:04 -07:00
René Scharfe
1d11d5bb85 archive: unify file attribute handling
Now that all file attribute handling for git archive has moved to archive.c,
we can unexport sha1_file_to_archive() and is_archive_path_ignored() even
disappears.

Add setup_archive_check(), modelled after similar functions used in the code
of other commands that support multiple file attributes.

Also remove convert_to_archive(), as it's only remaining function with
attribute handling gone was to call format_subst() if commit was not NULL,
which is now checked in sha1_file_to_archive().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:18:04 -07:00
René Scharfe
562e25abea archive: centralize archive entry writing
Add the exported function write_archive_entries() to archive.c, which uses
the new ability of read_tree_recursive() to pass a context pointer to its
callback in order to centralize previously duplicated code.

The new callback function write_archive_entry() does the work that every
archiver backend needs to do: loading file contents, entering subdirectories,
handling file attributes, constructing the full path of the entry.  All that
done, it calls the backend specific write_archive_entry_fn_t function.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:18:04 -07:00
René Scharfe
d53fe8187c archive: add baselen member to struct archiver_args
Calculate the length of base and save it in a new member of struct
archiver_args.  This way we don't have to compute it in each of the
format backends.

Note: parse_archive_args() guarantees that ->base won't ever be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:18:04 -07:00
René Scharfe
34533004b2 archive: remove args member from struct archiver
Pass struct archiver and struct archiver_args explicitly to parse_archive_args
and remove the latter from the former.  This allows us to get rid of struct
archiver_desc and simplifies the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:08:11 -07:00
René Scharfe
008d896df5 Teach new attribute 'export-ignore' to git-archive
Paths marked with this attribute are not output to git-archive
output.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-09 14:53:46 -07:00
René Scharfe
8460b2fcd4 archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)
Add support for a new attribute, specfile.  Files marked as being
specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an
archive.  It has no effect on worktree files.  The same placeholders
as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be
used.

The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It is
limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed
in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
git-log, too.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-03 16:46:16 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
6c2f207b23 Remove unsupported C99 style struct initializers in git-archive.
At least one older version of the Solaris C compiler doesn't support
the newer C99 style struct initializers.  To allow Git to compile
on those systems use an archive description struct which is easier
to initialize without the C99 struct initializer syntax.

Also since the archives array is not used by anyone other than
archive.c we can make it static.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-04 23:48:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e0ffb24877 Add --verbose to git-archive
And teach backends about it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 9e2c44a2893ae90944a0b7c9f40a9d22b759b5c0 commit)
2006-09-10 13:39:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
37f944363d archive: allow remote to have more formats than we understand.
This fixes git-archive --remote not to parse archiver arguments;
otherwise if the remote end implements formats other than the
one known locally we will not be able to access that format.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-09 23:57:46 -07:00
Rene Scharfe
854c4168e7 git-archive: make compression level of ZIP archives configurable
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-09 13:39:57 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu
ec06bff5e6 git-archive: wire up ZIP format.
Again, this is based on Rene Scharfe's earlier patch, but uses
the archiver support introduced by the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-09 11:57:37 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu
efd8696cd7 git-archive: wire up TAR format.
This is based on Rene Scharfe's earlier patch, but uses the
archiver support introduced by the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-09 11:57:37 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu
4df096a5ca Add git-archive
git-archive is a command to make TAR and ZIP archives of a git tree.
It helps prevent a proliferation of git-{format}-tree commands.

Instead of directly calling git-{tar,zip}-tree command, it defines
a very simple API, that archiver should implement and register in
"git-archive.c". This API is made up by 2 functions whose prototype
is defined in "archive.h" file.

 - The first one is used to parse 'extra' parameters which have
   signification only for the specific archiver. That would allow
   different archive backends to have different kind of options.

 - The second one is used to ask to an archive backend to build
   the archive given some already resolved parameters.

The main reason for making this API is to avoid using
git-{tar,zip}-tree commands, hence making them useless. Maybe it's
time for them to die ?

It also implements remote operations by defining a very simple
protocol: it first sends the name of the specific uploader followed
the repository name (git-upload-tar git://example.org/repo.git).
Then it sends options. It's done by sending a sequence of one
argument per packet, with prefix "argument ", followed by a flush.

The remote protocol is implemented in "git-archive.c" for client
side and is triggered by "--remote=<repo>" option. For example,
to fetch a TAR archive in a remote repo, you can issue:

$ git archive --format=tar --remote=git://xxx/yyy/zzz.git HEAD

We choose to not make a new command "git-fetch-archive" for example,
avoind one more GIT command which should be nice for users (less
commands to remember, keeps existing --remote option).

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-09 11:57:36 -07:00