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[PATCH 3/3] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2010, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20100905034116.GD2344@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100905031528.GA2344@burratino>

As the description of the "progress" option in git-fast-import.1 hints, there is no convenient way to immediately access the objects written to a new repository through fast-import. Until a checkpoint has been started and finishes writing the pack index, any new blobs, trees, and commits will not be accessible using standard git tools.

So introduce another way: a "cat" command introduced in the command stream requests for fast-import to print an object to the same report-fd stream used to report commits being written.

The output uses the same format as "git cat-file --batch".

Like cat-file --batch, this does not provide an option to dereference objects to a type of the requestor's choosing. Tags are presented as tags, commits as commits, and trees as trees.

Objects can be specified by path within a tree as well, using a
 cat TREE "PATH"

syntax. With this syntax, also, the tree can only be specified by :n marker or 40-digit tree id.

Cc: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
That's the end of the series.  As with patch 2, I'm not thrilled
with the interface, but I hope it can get the job done for now.
 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt |   34 +++++++++++-
 fast-import.c                     |  108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t9300-fast-import.sh            |  114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index e217635..2cf48f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ OPTIONS
 +
 The described objects are not necessarily accessible
 using standard git plumbing tools until a little while
-after the next checkpoint.
+after the next checkpoint.  To request access to the
+objects before then, use `cat` lines in the command stream.
 
 --export-pack-edges=<file>::
 	After creating a packfile, print a line of data to
@@ -332,6 +333,10 @@ and control the current import process.  More detailed discussion
 	standard output.  This command is optional and is not needed
 	to perform an import.
 
+`cat`::
+	Causes fast-import to print an object in 'cat-file --batch'
+	format to the file descriptor set with "feature report-fd".
+
 `feature`::
 	Require that fast-import supports the specified feature, or
 	abort if it does not.
@@ -888,6 +893,33 @@ Placing a `progress` command immediately after a `checkpoint` will
 inform the reader when the `checkpoint` has been completed and it
 can safely access the refs that fast-import updated.
 
+`cat`
+~~~~~
+Causes fast-import to print an object to a file descriptor
+previously arranged with the `--report-fd` option.  The command
+otherwise has no impact on the current import; its main purpose is to
+retrieve objects that may be in fast-import's memory but not
+accessible from the target repository a little quicker than by the
+method suggested by the description of the `progress` option.
+
+....
+	'cat' SP <dataref> LF
+....
+
+The `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`)
+set previously, or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of any Git object,
+preexisting or ready to be written.
+
+If `<dataref>` refers to a tree object, it may be followed by
+a path within that tree to retrieve a subtree or blob.
+
+....
+	'cat' SP <treeref> SP <path> LF
+....
+
+A `<path>` string should be surrounded with quotation marks and
+use C-style escaping.
+
 `feature`
 ~~~~~~~~~
 Require that fast-import supports the specified feature, or abort if
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index ef0cee7..b7fa9ae 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
     ('from' sp committish lf)?
     lf?;
 
+  cat_request ::= 'cat' sp (hexsha1 | idnum) lf
+    | 'cat' sp hexsha1 sp path_str lf;
+
   checkpoint ::= 'checkpoint' lf
     lf?;
 
@@ -2688,6 +2691,109 @@ static void parse_reset_branch(void)
 		unread_command_buf = 1;
 }
 
+static void quoted_path_sha1(unsigned char sha1[20], struct tree_entry *root,
+				const char *path, const char *line)
+{
+	struct strbuf uq = STRBUF_INIT;
+	struct tree_entry leaf = {0};
+	const char *x;
+
+	if (unquote_c_style(&uq, path, &x))
+		die("Invalid path: %s", line);
+	if (*x)
+		die("Garbage after path: %s", line);
+	tree_content_get(root, uq.buf, &leaf);
+	if (!leaf.versions[1].mode)
+		die("Path %s not in branch", uq.buf);
+	hashcpy(sha1, leaf.versions[1].sha1);
+}
+
+static void sendreport(const char *buf, unsigned long size)
+{
+	if (write_in_full(report_fd, buf, size) != size)
+		die_errno("Write to frontend failed");
+}
+
+static void cat_object(struct object_entry *oe, unsigned char sha1[20])
+{
+	struct strbuf line = STRBUF_INIT;
+	unsigned long size;
+	enum object_type type = 0;
+	char *buf;
+
+	if (report_fd < 0)
+		die("Internal error: bad report_fd %d", report_fd);
+	if (oe && oe->pack_id != MAX_PACK_ID) {
+		type = oe->type;
+		buf = gfi_unpack_entry(oe, &size);
+	} else {
+		buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, &type, &size);
+	}
+	if (!buf)
+		die("Can't read object %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+
+	/*
+	 * Output based on batch_one_object() from cat-file.c.
+	 */
+	if (type <= 0) {
+		strbuf_reset(&line);
+		strbuf_addf(&line, "%s missing\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+		if (write_in_full(report_fd, line.buf, line.len) != line.len)
+			die_errno("Write to frontend failed 1");
+	}
+	strbuf_reset(&line);
+	strbuf_addf(&line, "%s %s %lu\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1),
+						typename(type), size);
+	sendreport(line.buf, line.len);
+	sendreport(buf, size);
+	sendreport("\n", 1);
+	free(buf);
+}
+
+
+static void parse_cat_request(void)
+{
+	const char *p;
+	struct object_entry *oe = oe;
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
+	struct tree_entry root = {0};
+
+	/* cat SP <object> */
+	p = command_buf.buf + strlen("cat ");
+	if (report_fd < 0)
+		die("The cat command features the report-fd feature.");
+	if (*p == ':') {
+		char *x;
+		oe = find_mark(strtoumax(p + 1, &x, 10));
+		if (x == p + 1)
+			die("Invalid mark: %s", command_buf.buf);
+		if (!oe)
+			die("Unknown mark: %s", command_buf.buf);
+		p = x;
+		hashcpy(sha1, oe->idx.sha1);
+	} else {
+		if (get_sha1_hex(p, sha1))
+			die("Invalid SHA1: %s", command_buf.buf);
+		p += 40;
+		if (!*p)
+			oe = find_object(sha1);
+	}
+
+	/* [ SP "<path>" ] */
+	if (*p) {
+		if (*p++ != ' ')
+			die("Missing space after SHA1: %s", command_buf.buf);
+
+		/* cat <tree> "<path>" form. */
+		hashcpy(root.versions[1].sha1, sha1);
+		load_tree(&root);
+		quoted_path_sha1(sha1, &root, p, command_buf.buf);
+		oe = find_object(sha1);
+	}
+
+	cat_object(oe, sha1);
+}
+
 static void parse_checkpoint(void)
 {
 	if (object_count) {
@@ -2971,6 +3077,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			parse_new_tag();
 		else if (!prefixcmp(command_buf.buf, "reset "))
 			parse_reset_branch();
+		else if (!prefixcmp(command_buf.buf, "cat "))
+			parse_cat_request();
 		else if (!strcmp("checkpoint", command_buf.buf))
 			parse_checkpoint();
 		else if (!prefixcmp(command_buf.buf, "progress "))
diff --git a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
index 610e7a5..82e03e8 100755
--- a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
+++ b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
@@ -1705,6 +1705,120 @@ test_expect_success PIPE 'R: feature report-fd is honoured' '
 	test_cmp real received
 '
 
+test_expect_success PIPE 'R: report-fd: can feed back printed tree' '
+	cat >frontend <<-\FRONTEND_END &&
+		#!/bin/sh
+		cat <<EOF &&
+		feature report-fd=3
+		commit refs/heads/printed
+		committer $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+		data <<COMMIT
+		to be printed
+		COMMIT
+
+		from refs/heads/master
+		D file3
+
+		EOF
+
+		read commit_id <&3 &&
+		echo "$commit_id" >printed &&
+		echo "$commit_id commit" >expect.response &&
+		echo "cat $commit_id" &&
+		read cid2 type size <&3 &&
+		echo "$cid2 $type" >response &&
+		dd if=/dev/stdin of=commit bs=1 count=$size <&3 &&
+		read newline <&3 &&
+		read tree tree_id <commit &&
+
+		cat <<EOF &&
+		commit refs/heads/printed
+		committer $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+		data <<COMMIT
+		to be printed
+		COMMIT
+
+		from refs/heads/printed^0
+		M 040000 $tree_id old
+
+		EOF
+		read cid <&3
+	FRONTEND_END
+	chmod +x frontend &&
+
+	mkfifo commits &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -f commits" &&
+	(
+		{
+			sh frontend 3<commits ||
+			exit
+		} |
+		git fast-import 3>commits
+	) &&
+	git rev-parse printed^ >expect.printed &&
+	git cat-file commit printed^ >expect.commit &&
+
+	test_cmp expect.printed printed &&
+	test_cmp expect.response response &&
+	test_cmp expect.commit commit
+'
+
+test_expect_success PIPE 'R: report-fd: can feed back printed blob' '
+	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+	:100755 100644 $file6_id $file6_id C100	newdir/exec.sh	file6
+	EOF
+
+	cat >frontend <<-\FRONTEND_END &&
+		#!/bin/sh
+
+		branch=$(git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/branch) &&
+		cat <<EOF &&
+		feature report-fd=3
+		cat $branch
+		EOF
+
+		read commit_id type size <&3 &&
+		dd if=/dev/stdin of=commit bs=1 count=$size <&3 &&
+		read newline <&3 &&
+		read tree tree_id <commit &&
+
+		echo "cat $tree_id \"newdir/exec.sh\"" &&
+		read blob_id type size <&3 &&
+		dd if=/dev/stdin of=blob bs=1 count=$size <&3 &&
+		read newline <&3 &&
+
+		cat <<EOF &&
+		commit refs/heads/copyblob
+		committer $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+		data <<COMMIT
+		copy file6 to top level
+		COMMIT
+
+		from refs/heads/branch^0
+		M 644 inline "file6"
+		data $size
+		EOF
+		cat blob &&
+		echo &&
+		echo &&
+
+		read cid <&3
+	FRONTEND_END
+	chmod +x frontend &&
+
+	mkfifo commits &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -f commits" &&
+	(
+		{
+			sh frontend 3<commits ||
+			exit
+		} |
+		git fast-import 3>commits
+	) &&
+	git diff-tree -C --find-copies-harder -r copyblob^ copyblob >actual &&
+	compare_diff_raw expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'R: quiet option results in no stats being output' '
 	>empty &&
 	cat >input <<-\EOF &&
-- 
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