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Commits on Oct 9, 2018

  1. transport: drop refnames from for_each_alternate_ref 

    None of the current callers use the refname parameter we pass to their
callbacks. In theory somebody _could_ do so, but it's actually quite
weird if you think about it: it's a ref in somebody else's repository.
So the name has no meaning locally, and in fact there may be duplicates
if there are multiple alternates.

The users of this interface really only care about seeing some ref tips,
since that promises that the alternate has the full commit graph
reachable from there. So let's keep the information we pass back to the
bare minimum.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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  2. transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' 

    To list alternate references, 'read_alternate_refs' creates a child
process running 'git for-each-ref' in the alternate's Git directory.

Prepare to run other commands besides 'git for-each-ref' by introducing
and moving the relevant code from 'read_alternate_refs' to
'fill_alternate_refs_command'.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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  3. transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand 

    When in a repository containing one or more alternates, Git would
sometimes like to list references from those alternates. For example,
'git receive-pack' lists the "tips" pointed to by references in those
alternates as special ".have" references.

Listing ".have" references is designed to make pushing changes from
upstream to a fork a lightweight operation, by advertising to the pusher
that the fork already has the objects (via its alternate). Thus, the
client can avoid sending them.

However, when the alternate (upstream, in the previous example) has a
pathologically large number of references, the initial advertisement is
too expensive. In fact, it can dominate any such optimization where the
pusher avoids sending certain objects.

Introduce "core.alternateRefsCommand" in order to provide a facility to
limit or filter alternate references. This can be used, for example, to
filter out references the alternate does not wish to send (for space
concerns, or otherwise) during the initial advertisement.

Let the repository that has alternates configure this command to avoid
trusting the alternate to provide us a safe command to run in the shell.
To find the alternate, pass its absolute path as the first argument.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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  4. transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes 

    The recently-introduced "core.alternateRefsCommand" allows callers to
specify with high flexibility the tips that they wish to advertise from
alternates. This flexibility comes at the cost of some inconvenience
when the caller only wishes to limit the advertisement to one or more
prefixes.

For example, to advertise only tags, a caller using
'core.alternateRefsCommand' would have to do:

  $ git config core.alternateRefsCommand ' \
      f() { git -C "$1" for-each-ref \
              refs/tags --format="%(objectname)" }; f "$@"'

The above is cumbersome to write, so let's introduce a
"core.alternateRefsPrefixes" to address this common case. Instead, the
caller can run:

  $ git config core.alternateRefsPrefixes 'refs/tags'

Which will behave identically to the longer example using
"core.alternateRefsCommand".

Since the value of "core.alternateRefsPrefixes" is appended to 'git
for-each-ref' and then executed, include a "--" before taking the
configured value to avoid misinterpreting arguments as flags to 'git
for-each-ref'.

In the case that the caller wishes to specify multiple prefixes, they
may separate them by whitespace. If "core.alternateRefsCommand" is set,
it will take precedence over "core.alternateRefsPrefixes".

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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