This saves us some manual computation, and eliminates a call
to strcpy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Clear the git_zstream variable at the start of git_deflate_init() etc.
so that callers don't have to do that.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
* ye/http-accept-language:
http: add Accept-Language header if possible
There is no point in checking "!ref->name" when ref is a
"struct ref". The name field is a flex-array, and there
always has a non-zero address. This is almost certainly not
hurting anything, but it does cause clang-3.6 to complain.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an Accept-Language header which indicates the user's preferred
languages defined by $LANGUAGE, $LC_ALL, $LC_MESSAGES and $LANG.
Examples:
LANGUAGE= -> ""
LANGUAGE=ko:en -> "Accept-Language: ko, en;q=0.9, *;q=0.1"
LANGUAGE=ko LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -> "Accept-Language: ko, *;q=0.1"
LANGUAGE= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -> "Accept-Language: en-US, *;q=0.1"
This gives git servers a chance to display remote error messages in
the user's preferred language.
Limit the number of languages to 1,000 because q-value must not be
smaller than 0.001, and limit the length of Accept-Language header to
4,000 bytes for some HTTP servers which cannot accept such long header.
Signed-off-by: Yi EungJun <eungjun.yi@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow "git push" request to be signed, so that it can be verified and
audited, using the GPG signature of the person who pushed, that the
tips of branches at a public repository really point the commits
the pusher wanted to, without having to "trust" the server.
* jc/push-cert: (24 commits)
receive-pack::hmac_sha1(): copy the entire SHA-1 hash out
signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
signed push: teach smart-HTTP to pass "git push --signed" around
signed push: fortify against replay attacks
signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
send-pack: send feature request on push-cert packet
receive-pack: GPG-validate push certificates
push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
gpg-interface: move parse_signature() to where it should be
gpg-interface: move parse_gpg_output() to where it should be
send-pack: clarify that cmds_sent is a boolean
send-pack: refactor inspecting and resetting status and sending commands
send-pack: rename "new_refs" to "need_pack_data"
receive-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: always send capabilities
send-pack: refactor decision to send update per ref
send-pack: move REF_STATUS_REJECT_NODELETE logic a bit higher
...
The number of refs that can be pushed at once over smart HTTP was
limited by the command line length. The limitation has been lifted
by passing these refs from the standard input of send-pack.
* jk/send-pack-many-refspecs:
send-pack: take refspecs over stdin
The "--signed" option received by "git push" is first passed to the
transport layer, which the native transport directly uses to notice
that a push certificate needs to be sent. When the transport-helper
is involved, however, the option needs to be told to the helper with
set_helper_option(), and the helper needs to take necessary action.
For the smart-HTTP helper, the "necessary action" involves spawning
the "git send-pack" subprocess with the "--signed" option.
Once the above all gets wired in, the smart-HTTP transport now can
use the push certificate mechanism to authenticate its pushes.
Add a test that is modeled after tests for the native transport in
t5534-push-signed.sh to t5541-http-push-smart.sh. Update the test
Apache configuration to pass GNUPGHOME environment variable through.
As PassEnv would trigger warnings for an environment variable that
is not set, export it from test-lib.sh set to a harmless value when
GnuPG is not being used in the tests.
Note that the added test is deliberately loose and does not check
the nonce in this step. This is because the stateless RPC mode is
inevitably flaky and a nonce that comes back in the actual push
processing is one issued by a different process; if the two
interactions with the server crossed a second boundary, the nonces
will not match and such a check will fail. A later patch in the
series will work around this shortcoming.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing a large number of refs works over most transports,
because we implement send-pack as an internal function.
However, it can sometimes fail when pushing over http,
because we have to spawn "git send-pack --stateless-rpc" to
do the heavy lifting, and we pass each refspec on the
command line. This can cause us to overflow the OS limits on
the size of the command line for a large push.
We can solve this by giving send-pack a --stdin option and
using it from remote-curl. We already dealt with this on
the fetch-pack side in 078b895 (fetch-pack: new --stdin
option to read refs from stdin, 2012-04-02). The stdin
option (and in particular, its use of packet-lines for
stateless-rpc input) is modeled after that solution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after
declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to
initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a
function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we
already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.).
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/remote-curl-squelch-extra-errors:
remote-curl: mark helper-protocol errors more clearly
remote-curl: use error instead of fprintf(stderr)
remote-curl: do not complain on EOF from parent git
When we encounter an error in remote-curl, we generally just
report it to stderr. There is no need for the user to care
that the "could not connect to server" error was generated
by git-remote-https rather than a function in the parent
git-fetch process.
However, when the error is in the protocol between git and
the helper, it makes sense to clearly identify which side is
complaining. These cases shouldn't ever happen, but when
they do, we can make them less confusing by being more
verbose.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We usually prefix our error messages with "error: ", but
many error messages from remote-curl are simply printed with
fprintf. This can make the output a little harder to read
(especially because such message may be intermingled with
errors from the parent git process).
There is no reason to avoid error(), as we are already
calling it many places (in addition to libgit.a functions
which use it).
While we're adjusting the messages, we can also drop the
capitalization which makes them unlike other git error
messages.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parent git process is supposed to send us an empty line
to indicate that the conversation is over. However, the
parent process may die() if there is a problem with the
operation (e.g., we try to fetch a ref that does not exist).
In this case, it produces a useful message, but then
remote-curl _also_ produces an unhelpful message:
$ git pull origin matser
fatal: couldn't find remote ref matser
Unexpected end of command stream
The "right" way to fix this is to teach the parent git to
always cleanly close the connection to the helper, letting
it know that we are done. Implementing that is rather
clunky, though, as it would involve either replacing die()
operations with returning errors up the stack (until we
disconnect the transport), or adding an atexit handler to
clean up any transport helpers left open.
It's much simpler to just suppress the EOF message in
remote-curl. It was not added to address any real-world
situation in the first place, but rather a "we should
probably report unexpected things" suggestion[1].
It is the parent git which drives the operation, and whose
exit value actually matters. If the parent dies, then the
helper has no need to complain (except as a debugging aid).
In the off chance that the pipe is closed without the parent
dying, it can still notice the non-zero exit code.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/176036
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's a common idiom to match a prefix and then skip past it
with strlen, like:
if (starts_with(foo, "bar"))
foo += strlen("bar");
This avoids magic numbers, but means we have to repeat the
string (and there is no compiler check that we didn't make a
typo in one of the strings).
We can use skip_prefix to handle this case without repeating
ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently recognize an error message with a content-type
"text/plain; charset=utf-16" as text, but we ignore the
charset parameter entirely. Let's encode it to
log_output_encoding, which is presumably something the
user's terminal can handle.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we get a content-type from curl, we get the whole
header line, including any parameters, and without any
normalization (like downcasing or whitespace) applied.
If we later try to match it with strcmp() or even
strcasecmp(), we may get false negatives.
This could cause two visible behaviors:
1. We might fail to recognize a smart-http server by its
content-type.
2. We might fail to relay text/plain error messages to
users (especially if they contain a charset parameter).
This patch teaches the http code to extract and normalize
just the type/subtype portion of the string. This is
technically passing out less information to the callers, who
can no longer see the parameters. But none of the current
callers cares, and a future patch will add back an
easier-to-use method for accessing those parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently don't reuse http connections when fetching via
the smart-http protocol. This is bad because the TCP
handshake introduces latency, and especially because SSL
connection setup may be non-trivial.
We can fix it by consistently using curl's "multi"
interface. The reason is rather complicated:
Our http code has two ways of being used: queuing many
"slots" to be fetched in parallel, or fetching a single
request in a blocking manner. The parallel code is built on
curl's "multi" interface. Most of the single-request code
uses http_request, which is built on top of the parallel
code (we just feed it one slot, and wait until it finishes).
However, one could also accomplish the single-request scheme
by avoiding curl's multi interface entirely and just using
curl_easy_perform. This is simpler, and is used by post_rpc
in the smart-http protocol.
It does work to use the same curl handle in both contexts,
as long as it is not at the same time. However, internally
curl may not share all of the cached resources between both
contexts. In particular, a connection formed using the
"multi" code will go into a reuse pool connected to the
"multi" object. Further requests using the "easy" interface
will not be able to reuse that connection.
The smart http protocol does ref discovery via http_request,
which uses the "multi" interface, and then follows up with
the "easy" interface for its rpc calls. As a result, we make
two HTTP connections rather than reusing a single one.
We could teach the ref discovery to use the "easy"
interface. But it is only once we have done this discovery
that we know whether the protocol will be smart or dumb. If
it is dumb, then our further requests, which want to fetch
objects in parallel, will not be able to reuse the same
connection.
Instead, this patch switches post_rpc to build on the
parallel interface, which means that we use it consistently
everywhere. It's a little more complicated to use, but since
we have the infrastructure already, it doesn't add any code;
we can just factor out the relevant bits from http_request.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fetching from a shallow-cloned repository used to be forbidden,
primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted
and we did not bother supporting such usage. This attempts to allow
object transfer out of a shallow-cloned repository in a controlled
way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository with truncated
history).
* nd/shallow-clone: (31 commits)
t5537: fix incorrect expectation in test case 10
shallow: remove unused code
send-pack.c: mark a file-local function static
git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects
clone: use git protocol for cloning shallow repo locally
send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone via http
receive-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone via http
smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well
send-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone
receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow
connected.c: add new variant that runs with --shallow-file
add GIT_SHALLOW_FILE to propagate --shallow-file to subprocesses
receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone
receive-pack: reorder some code in unpack()
fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow
upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots
fetch: support fetching from a shallow repository
clone: support remote shallow repository
...
Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison
functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with.
* cc/starts-n-ends-with:
replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with()
builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead
environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
No callers pass a non-empty pointer as shallow_points at this
stage. As a result, all clients still refuse to talk to shallow
repository on the other end.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.
The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:
$ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
grep -v strbuf\\.c |
xargs perl -pi -e '
s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
'
on the result of preparatory changes in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Issue "100 Continue" responses to help use of GSS-Negotiate
authentication scheme over HTTP transport when needed.
* bc/http-100-continue:
remote-curl: fix large pushes with GSSAPI
remote-curl: pass curl slot_results back through run_slot
http: return curl's AUTHAVAIL via slot_results
Due to an interaction between the way libcurl handles GSSAPI
authentication over HTTP and the way git uses libcurl, large
pushes (those over http.postBuffer bytes) would fail due to
an authentication failure requiring a rewind of the curl
buffer. Such a rewind was not possible because the data did
not fit into the entire buffer.
Enable the use of the Expect: 100-continue header for large
requests where the server offers GSSAPI authentication to
avoid this issue, since the request would otherwise fail.
This allows git to get the authentication data right before
sending the pack contents. Existing cases where pushes
would succeed, including small requests using GSSAPI, still
disable the use of 100 Continue, as it causes problems for
some remote HTTP implementations (servers and proxies).
Signed-off-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Some callers may want to know more than just the integer
error code we return. Let them optionally pass a
slot_results struct to fill in (or NULL if they do not
care). In either case we continue to return the integer
code.
We can also give probe_rpc the same treatment (since it
builds directly on run_slot).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Handle the case where http transport gets redirected during the
authorization request better.
* jk/http-auth-redirects:
http.c: Spell the null pointer as NULL
remote-curl: rewrite base url from info/refs redirects
remote-curl: store url as a strbuf
remote-curl: make refs_url a strbuf
http: update base URLs when we see redirects
http: provide effective url to callers
http: hoist credential request out of handle_curl_result
http: refactor options to http_get_*
http_request: factor out curlinfo_strbuf
http_get_file: style fixes
For efficiency and security reasons, an earlier commit in
this series taught http_get_* to re-write the base url based
on redirections we saw while making a specific request.
This commit wires that option into the info/refs request,
meaning that a redirect from
http://example.com/foo.git/info/refs
to
https://example.com/bar.git/info/refs
will behave as if "https://example.com/bar.git" had been
provided to git in the first place.
The tests bear some explanation. We introduce two new
hierearchies into the httpd test config:
1. Requests to /smart-redir-limited will work only for the
initial info/refs request, but not any subsequent
requests. As a result, we can confirm whether the
client is re-rooting its requests after the initial
contact, since otherwise it will fail (it will ask for
"repo.git/git-upload-pack", which is not redirected).
2. Requests to smart-redir-auth will redirect, and require
auth after the redirection. Since we are using the
redirected base for further requests, we also update
the credential struct, in order not to mislead the user
(or credential helpers) about which credential is
needed. We can therefore check the GIT_ASKPASS prompts
to make sure we are prompting for the new location.
Because we have neither multiple servers nor https
support in our test setup, we can only redirect between
paths, meaning we need to turn on
credential.useHttpPath to see the difference.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
We use a strbuf to generate the string containing the remote
URL, but then detach it to a bare pointer. This makes it
harder to later manipulate the URL, as we have forgotten the
length (and the allocation semantics are not as clear).
Let's instead keep the strbuf around. As a bonus, this
eliminates a confusing double-use of the "buf" strbuf in
main(). Prior to this, it was used both for constructing the
url, and for reading commands from stdin.
The downside is that we have to update each call site to
refer to "url.buf" rather than just "url" when they want the
C string.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
In the discover_refs function, we use a strbuf named
"buffer" for multiple purposes. First we build the info/refs
URL in it, and then detach that to a bare pointer. Then, we
use the same strbuf to store the result of fetching the
refs.
Let's instead keep a separate refs_url strbuf. This is less
confusing, as the "buffer" strbuf is now used for only one
thing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
When we are handling a curl response code in http_request or
in the remote-curl RPC code, we use the handle_curl_result
helper to translate curl's response into an easy-to-use
code. When we see an HTTP 401, we do one of two things:
1. If we already had a filled-in credential, we mark it as
rejected, and then return HTTP_NOAUTH to indicate to
the caller that we failed.
2. If we didn't, then we ask for a new credential and tell
the caller HTTP_REAUTH to indicate that they may want
to try again.
Rejecting in the first case makes sense; it is the natural
result of the request we just made. However, prompting for
more credentials in the second step does not always make
sense. We do not know for sure that the caller is going to
make a second request, and nor are we sure that it will be
to the same URL. Logically, the prompt belongs not to the
request we just finished, but to the request we are (maybe)
about to make.
In practice, it is very hard to trigger any bad behavior.
Currently, if we make a second request, it will always be to
the same URL (even in the face of redirects, because curl
handles the redirects internally). And we almost always
retry on HTTP_REAUTH these days. The one exception is if we
are streaming a large RPC request to the server (e.g., a
pushed packfile), in which case we cannot restart. It's
extremely unlikely to see a 401 response at this stage,
though, as we would typically have seen it when we sent a
probe request, before streaming the data.
This patch drops the automatic prompt out of case 2, and
instead requires the caller to do it. This is a few extra
lines of code, and the bug it fixes is unlikely to come up
in practice. But it is conceptually cleaner, and paves the
way for better handling of credentials across redirects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Over time, the http_get_strbuf function has grown several
optional parameters. We now have a bitfield with multiple
boolean options, as well as an optional strbuf for returning
the content-type of the response. And a future patch in this
series is going to add another strbuf option.
Treating these as separate arguments has a few downsides:
1. Most call sites need to add extra NULLs and 0s for the
options they aren't interested in.
2. The http_get_* functions are actually wrappers around
2 layers of low-level implementation functions. We have
to pass these options through individually.
3. The http_get_strbuf wrapper learned these options, but
nobody bothered to do so for http_get_file, even though
it is backed by the same function that does understand
the options.
Let's consolidate the options into a single struct. For the
common case of the default options, we'll allow callers to
simply pass a NULL for the options struct.
The resulting code is often a few lines longer, but it ends
up being easier to read (and to change as we add new
options, since we do not need to update each call site).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Allow a safer "rewind of the remote tip" push than blind "--force",
by requiring that the overwritten remote ref to be unchanged since
the new history to replace it was prepared.
The machinery is more or less ready. The "--force" option is again
the big red button to override any safety, thanks to J6t's sanity
(the original round allowed --lockref to defeat --force).
The logic to choose the default implemented here is fragile
(e.g. "git fetch" after seeing a failure will update the
remote-tracking branch and will make the next "push" pass,
defeating the safety pretty easily). It is suitable only for the
simplest workflows, and it may hurt users more than it helps them.
* jc/push-cas:
push: teach --force-with-lease to smart-http transport
send-pack: fix parsing of --force-with-lease option
t5540/5541: smart-http does not support "--force-with-lease"
t5533: test "push --force-with-lease"
push --force-with-lease: tie it all together
push --force-with-lease: implement logic to populate old_sha1_expect[]
remote.c: add command line option parser for "--force-with-lease"
builtin/push.c: use OPT_BOOL, not OPT_BOOLEAN
cache.h: move remote/connect API out of it
We have been passing enough information to enable the
compare-and-swap logic down to the transport layer, but the
transport helper was not passing it to smart-http transport.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is an extension of c6807a4 (clone: open a shortcut for
connectivity check - 2013-05-26) to reduce the cost of connectivity
check at clone time, this time with smart http protocol.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using a hand-managed argument array, use argv-array API
to manage dynamically formulated command line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we encounter an unknown http error (e.g., a 403), we
hand the error code to http_error, which then prints it with
error(). After that we die with the redundant message "HTTP
request failed".
Instead, let's just drop http_error entirely, which does
nothing but pass arguments to error(), and instead die
directly with a useful message.
So before:
$ git clone https://example.com/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
error: unable to access 'https://example.com/repo.git': The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden
fatal: HTTP request failed
and after:
$ git clone https://example.com/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://example.com/repo.git': The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This helper function should really be a one-liner that
prints an error message, but it has ended up unnecessarily
complicated:
1. We call error() directly when we fail to start the curl
request, so we must later avoid printing a duplicate
error in http_error().
It would be much simpler in this case to just stuff the
error message into our usual curl_errorstr buffer
rather than printing it ourselves. This means that
http_error does not even have to care about curl's exit
value (the interesting part is in the errorstr buffer
already).
2. We return the "ret" value passed in to us, but none of
the callers actually cares about our return value. We
can just drop this entirely.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we report http errors in fetching the initial ref
advertisement, we show the full URL we attempted to use,
including "info/refs?service=git-upload-pack". While this
may be useful for debugging a broken server, it is
unnecessarily verbose and confusing for most cases, in which
the client user is not even the same person as the owner of
the repository.
Let's just show the repository URL; debugging can happen
with GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, which shows way more useful
information, anyway.
At the same time, let's also make sure to mention the
repository URL when we report failed authentication
(previously we said only "Authentication failed"). Knowing
the URL can help the user realize why authentication failed
(e.g., they meant to push to remote A, not remote B).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we get an http 404 trying to get the initial list of
refs from the server, we try to be helpful and remind the
user that update-server-info may need to be run. This looks
like:
$ git clone https://github.com/non/existent
Cloning into 'existent'...
fatal: https://github.com/non/existent/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
Suggesting update-server-info may be a good suggestion for
users who are in control of the server repo and who are
planning to set up dumb http. But for users of smart http,
and especially users who are not in control of the server
repo, the advice is useless and confusing.
Since most people are expected to use smart http these days,
it does not make sense to keep the update-server-info hint.
We not only drop the mention of update-server-info, but also
show only the main repo URL, not the full "info/refs" and
service parameter. These elements may be useful for
debugging a broken server configuration, but in the majority
of cases, users are not fetching from their own
repositories, but rather from other people's repositories;
they have neither the power nor interest to fix a broken
configuration, and the extra components just make the
message more confusing. Users who do want to debug can and
should use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to get more complete information
on the actual URLs visited.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we get an http 404 trying to get the initial list of
refs from the server, we try to be helpful and remind the
user that update-server-info may need to be run. This looks
like:
$ git clone https://github.com/non/existent
Cloning into 'existent'...
fatal: https://github.com/non/existent/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
Suggesting update-server-info may be a good suggestion for
users who are in control of the server repo and who are
planning to set up dumb http. But for users of smart http,
and especially users who are not in control of the server
repo, the advice is useless and confusing.
The previous patch taught remote-curl to show custom advice
from the server when it is available. When we have shown
messages from the server, we can also drop our custom
advice; what the server has to say is likely to be more
accurate and helpful.
We not only drop the mention of update-server-info, but also
show only the main repo URL, not the full "info/refs" and
service parameter. These elements may be useful for
debugging a broken server configuration, but again, anything
the server has provided is likely to be more useful (and one
can still use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to get much more complete
debugging information).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an http request to a remote git server fails, we show
only the http response code, or sometimes a custom message
for particular codes. This gives the server no opportunity
to offer a more detailed explanation of the reason for the
failure, or to give extra advice.
This patch teaches remote-curl to record and display the
body content of a failed http response. We only display such
responses when the content-type is advertised as text/plain,
as it is the most likely to look presentable on the user's
terminal (and it is hoped to be a good indication that the
message is intended for git clients, and not for a web
browser).
Each line of the new output is prepended with "remote:".
Example output may look like this (assuming the server is
configured to display such a helpful message):
$ GIT_SMART_HTTP=0 git clone https://example.com/some/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
remote: Sorry, fetching via dumb http is forbidden.
remote: Please upgrade your git client to v1.6.6 or greater
remote: and make sure that smart-http is enabled.
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing http://localhost:5001/some/repo.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
For the sake of simplicity, we only record and display these
errors during the initial fetch of the ref list, as that is
the initial contact with the server and where the most
common, interesting errors happen (and there is already
precedent, as that is the only place we currently massage
http error codes into more helpful messages).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When remote-curl receives a list of refs from a server, it
keeps the whole buffer intact. When we get a "list" command,
we feed the result to get_remote_heads, and when we get a
"fetch" or "push" command, we feed it to fetch-pack or
send-pack, respectively.
If the HTTP response from the server is truncated for any
reason, we will get an incomplete ref advertisement. If we
then feed this incomplete list to fetch-pack, one of a few
things may happen:
1. If the truncation is in a packet header, fetch-pack
will notice the bogus line and complain.
2. If the truncation is inside a packet, fetch-pack will
keep waiting for us to send the rest of the packet,
which we never will.
3. If the truncation is at a packet boundary, fetch-pack
will keep waiting for us to send the next packet, which
we never will.
As a result, fetch-pack hangs, waiting for input. However,
remote-curl believes it has sent all of the advertisement,
and therefore waits for fetch-pack to speak. The two
processes end up in a deadlock.
We do notice the broken ref list if we feed it to
get_remote_heads. So if git asks the helper to do a "list"
followed by a "fetch", we are safe; we'll abort during the
list operation, which parses the refs.
This patch teaches remote-curl to always parse and save the
incoming ref list when we read the ref advertisement from a
server. That means that we will always verify and abort
before even running fetch-pack (or send-pack) when reading a
corrupted list, even if we do not run the "list" command
explicitly.
Since we save the result, in the common case of running
"list" then "fetch", we do not do any extra parsing at all.
In the case of just a "fetch", we do an extra round of
parsing, but only once.
Note also that the "fetch" case will now also initialize
server_capabilities from the remote (in remote-curl; we
already would do so inside fetch-pack). Doing "list+fetch"
already does this. It doesn't actually matter now, but the
new behavior is arguably more correct, should remote-curl
ever start caring about the server's capability list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
