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Re: [PATCH 1/3] serve: pass "config context" through to individual commands

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 14, 2018, 09:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20181214095512.GA13465@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20181214092820.GB7121@google.com>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 01:28:20AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> > Certainly if that information was carried from the client request it
> > would work fine, and ls-refs would have enough to know which config to
> > respect. But I could not find any documentation on this, nor discussion
> > of plans for a v2 push.
> 
> Interesting.  The last discussion of push v2 plans was in
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20180717210915.139521-1-bmwill@google.com/.
> Expect to hear more soon.

The words "ls-refs" and "advertisement" are notably absent from that thread. ;)

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> > I'm conceptually OK with that, but if that is the plan for going
> > forward, it was not at all obvious to me (and it does feel rather
> > implicit).
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I haven't wrapped my head around config context
> and how it fits into the broader picture yet, but it may be a very
> good thing to have.  So please consider this comment to be about the
> commit message only.

If we're OK with accepting that the client will pass along the fetch/push context for each individual command, then I don't think we would ever need this. It is literally about relaying the fact of "the original request was via upload-pack". If the commands already know the context the client is interested in from another method, then I don't think they should ever need to care about that fact.

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> Based on the motivation you're describing here, I think treating it as
> uploadpack and adding a NEEDSWORK comment would be a good way forward.
> If we're moving toward a world with more protocol commands that don't
> fit in the upload-pack / receive-pack categories, then we need to
> figure out in more detail what that world looks like:
> 
> - do we keep on adding new endpoints, in the same spirit as
>   upload-archive?  If so, what endpoint should a client use to get
>   capabilities before it decides which endpoint to use?
> 
> - do we merge everything in "git serve" except where a specific
>   endpoint is needed for protocol v0 compatibility?  That would lose
>   the ability to distinguish fetches from pushes without looking at
>   the body of requests (which is useful to some people for monitoring,
>   blocking, etc) --- do we consider that to be an acceptable loss?
> 
> - once we've decided what the future should look like, how does the
>   transition to that future look?

I agree those are all interesting open questions. I didn't want to solve any of them now, but just fix this (IMHO pretty serious) regression. I was mostly trying to do so without making any assumptions about where we'd go in the future (and even NEEDSWORK feels a little funny; it's not clear to me whether that work is going to be needed or not).

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> > Without this information, in patch 3 ls-refs cannot know to look at
> > uploadpack.hiderefs, unless it makes the implicit assumption that it is
> > always serving a fetch.
> 
> I think that's a reasonable assumption to make, especially if made
> explicit using a simple comment. :)

The big danger is that somebody does implement a "push" command and forgets to touch ls-refs. That would be wrong and buggy for more reasons than this (as you noted earlier, it should handle .have refs somehow). But what worries me is that the failure mode for the bug is to start exposing refs which are meant to be hidden. Which to me is a little more serious than "the new functionality doesn't work".

So I guess I considered it to mostly be defensive (and I'd be fine if it was later ripped out when a more elegant approach becomes obvious).

That said, I'm not totally opposed to the implicit thing if that's where we all think the protocol code should be headed. The patch is certainly smaller. The whole series could be replaced with this:

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] upload-pack: support hidden refs with protocol v2

In the v2 protocol, upload-pack's advertisement has been moved to the "ls-refs" command. That command does not respect hidden-ref config (like transfer.hiderefs) at all, and advertises everything.

While there are some features that are not supported in v2 (e.g., v2 always allows fetching any sha1 without respect to advertisements), the lack of this feature is not documented and is likely just a bug. Let's make it work, as otherwise upgrading a server to a v2-capable git will start exposing these refs that the repository admin has asked to remain hidden.

Note that we assume we're operating on behalf of a fetch here, since that's the only thing implemented in v2 at this point. See the in-code comment.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 ls-refs.c            | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 t/t5512-ls-remote.sh |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ls-refs.c b/ls-refs.c
index a06f12eca8..9c9a7c647f 100644
--- a/ls-refs.c
+++ b/ls-refs.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "argv-array.h"
 #include "ls-refs.h"
 #include "pkt-line.h"
+#include "config.h"
 
 /*
  * Check if one of the prefixes is a prefix of the ref.
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ static int send_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 	const char *refname_nons = strip_namespace(refname);
 	struct strbuf refline = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+	if (ref_is_hidden(refname_nons, refname))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (!ref_match(&data->prefixes, refname))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -69,6 +73,16 @@ static int send_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int ls_refs_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
+{
+	/*
+	 * We only serve fetches over v2 for now, so respect only "uploadpack"
+	 * config. This may need to eventually be expanded to "receive", but we
+	 * don't yet know how that information will be passed to ls-refs.
+	 */
+	return parse_hide_refs_config(var, value, "uploadpack");
+}
+
 int ls_refs(struct repository *r, struct argv_array *keys,
 	    struct packet_reader *request)
 {
@@ -76,6 +90,8 @@ int ls_refs(struct repository *r, struct argv_array *keys,
 
 	memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
 
+	git_config(ls_refs_config, NULL);
+
 	while (packet_reader_read(request) != PACKET_READ_FLUSH) {
 		const char *arg = request->line;
 		const char *out;
diff --git a/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh b/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh
index 32e722db2e..ca69636fd5 100755
--- a/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh
+++ b/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh
@@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ test_expect_success 'overrides work between mixed transfer/upload-pack hideRefs'
 	grep refs/tags/magic actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'protocol v2 supports hiderefs' '
+	test_config uploadpack.hiderefs refs/tags &&
+	git -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote . >actual &&
+	! grep refs/tags actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'ls-remote --symref' '
 	git fetch origin &&
 	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
-- 
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  1. 0/3 protocol v2 and hidden refsJeff King, Dec 11, 2018
  2. 1/3 serve: pass "config context" through to individual commandsJeff King, Dec 11, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2018
  4. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2018
  6. Jeff KingDec 16, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2018
  8. Jeff KingDec 18, 2018
  9. Jonathan NiederDec 14, 2018
  10. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  11. Jonathan NiederDec 14, 2018
  12. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  13. 2/3 parse_hide_refs_config: handle NULL sectionJeff King, Dec 11, 2018
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2018
  15. 3/3 upload-pack: support hidden refs with protocol v2Jeff King, Dec 11, 2018
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 11, 2018
  17. Jeff KingDec 11, 2018
  18. 0/3 Add a GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=X test modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 11, 2018
  19. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 11, 2018
  20. 1/3 tests: add a special setup where for protocol.versionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 11, 2018
  21. 0/3 Some fixes and improvementsJonathan Tan, Dec 12, 2018
  22. 1/3 squash this into your patchJonathan Tan, Dec 12, 2018
  23. 3/3 also squash this into your patchJonathan Tan, Dec 12, 2018
  24. 2/3 builtin/fetch-pack: support protocol version 2Jonathan Tan, Dec 12, 2018
  25. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2018
  26. 0/8 protocol v2 fixesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  27. 0/4 protocol v2 fixesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  28. Jeff KingDec 18, 2018
  29. 1/4 serve: pass "config context" through to individual commandsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  30. 3/4 upload-pack: support hidden refs with protocol v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  31. 2/4 parse_hide_refs_config: handle NULL sectionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  32. 4/4 fetch-pack: support protocol version 2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  33. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2019
  34. Jonathan TanJan 8, 2019
  35. Jeff KingJan 8, 2019
  36. 1/8 serve: pass "config context" through to individual commandsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  37. 2/8 parse_hide_refs_config: handle NULL sectionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  38. 3/8 upload-pack: support hidden refs with protocol v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  39. 4/8 tests: add a check for unportable env --unsetÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  40. 5/8 tests: add a special setup where for protocol.versionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  41. Jonathan TanDec 13, 2018
  42. 6/8 tests: mark & fix tests broken under GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  43. 7/8 builtin/fetch-pack: support protocol version 2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  44. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  45. 8/8 tests: mark tests broken under GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 13, 2018
  46. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 13, 2018
  47. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2018
  48. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  49. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2018
  50. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2018
  51. Jeff KingDec 17, 2018
  52. Jeff KingDec 17, 2018
  53. upload-pack: turn on uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant=trueÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 17, 2018
  54. David TurnerDec 17, 2018
  55. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 17, 2018
  56. David TurnerDec 17, 2018
  57. Jonathan NiederDec 17, 2018
  58. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 17, 2018
  59. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2018
  60. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 18, 2018
  61. Jeff KingDec 18, 2018
  62. Jeff KingDec 18, 2018
  63. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 18, 2018
  64. Junio C HamanoDec 26, 2018
  65. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 27, 2018
  66. Jonathan NiederDec 27, 2018
  67. 2/3 tests: mark tests broken under GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 11, 2018
  68. 3/3 tests: mark tests broken under GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 11, 2018
  69. Jonathan TanDec 13, 2018
  70. Jeff KingDec 14, 2018
  71. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 15, 2018
  72. Jeff KingDec 16, 2018
  73. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 16, 2018

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