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[PATCH v2 1/1] upload-pack: advertise capabilities when cloning empty repos

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
May 1, 2023, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20230501170018.1410567-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To
<20230501170018.1410567-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
From: "brian m. carlson" <bk2204@github.com>

When cloning an empty repository, protocol versions 0 and 1 currently offer nothing but the header and flush packets for the /info/refs endpoint. This means that no capabilities are provided, so the client side doesn't know what capabilities are present.

However, this does pose a problem when working with SHA-256 repositories, since we use the capabilities to know the remote side's object format (hash algorithm). As of 8b214c2e9d ("clone: propagate object-format when cloning from void", 2023-04-05), this has been fixed for protocol v2, since there we always read the hash algorithm from the remote.

Fortunately, the push version of the protocol already indicates a clue for how to solve this. When the /info/refs endpoint is accessed for a push and the remote is empty, we include a dummy "capabilities^{}" ref pointing to the all-zeros object ID. The protocol documentation already indicates this should _always_ be sent, even for fetches and clones, so let's just do that, which means we'll properly announce the hash algorithm as part of the capabilities. This just works with the existing code because we share the same ref code for fetches and clones, and libgit2, JGit, and dulwich do as well.

There is one minor issue to fix, though. When we call send_ref with namespaces, we would return NULL with the capabilities entry, which would cause a crash. Instead, let's make sure we don't try to strip the namespace if we're using our special capabilities entry.

Add several sets of tests for HTTP as well as for local clones.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
---
 t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t5700-protocol-v1.sh      | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 upload-pack.c               |  7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
index 0908534f25..21b7767cbd 100755
--- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
+++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
@@ -611,6 +611,33 @@ test_expect_success 'client falls back from v2 to v0 to match server' '
 	grep symref=HEAD:refs/heads/ trace
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'create empty http-accessible SHA-256 repository' '
+	mkdir "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256.git" &&
+	(cd "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256.git" &&
+	 git --bare init --object-format=sha256
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone empty SHA-256 repository with protocol v2' '
+	rm -fr sha256 &&
+	echo sha256 >expected &&
+	git -c protocol.version=2 clone "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" &&
+	git -C sha256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+	test_cmp actual expected &&
+	git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" >actual &&
+	test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone empty SHA-256 repository with protocol v0' '
+	rm -fr sha256 &&
+	echo sha256 >expected &&
+	GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git -c protocol.version=0 clone "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" &&
+	git -C sha256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+	test_cmp actual expected &&
+	git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" >actual &&
+	test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'passing hostname resolution information works' '
 	BOGUS_HOST=gitbogusexamplehost.invalid &&
 	BOGUS_HTTPD_URL=$HTTPD_PROTO://$BOGUS_HOST:$LIB_HTTPD_PORT &&
diff --git a/t/t5700-protocol-v1.sh b/t/t5700-protocol-v1.sh
index 6c8d4c6cf1..a73b4d4ff6 100755
--- a/t/t5700-protocol-v1.sh
+++ b/t/t5700-protocol-v1.sh
@@ -244,15 +244,28 @@ test_expect_success 'push with ssh:// using protocol v1' '
 	grep "push< version 1" log
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone propagates object-format from empty repo' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -fr src256 dst256" &&
+
+	echo sha256 >expect &&
+	git init --object-format=sha256 src256 &&
+	git clone --no-local src256 dst256 &&
+	git -C dst256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 # Test protocol v1 with 'http://' transport
 #
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh
 start_httpd
 
-test_expect_success 'create repo to be served by http:// transport' '
+test_expect_success 'create repos to be served by http:// transport' '
 	git init "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/http_parent" &&
 	git -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/http_parent" config http.receivepack true &&
-	test_commit -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/http_parent" one
+	test_commit -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/http_parent" one &&
+	git init --object-format=sha256 "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256" &&
+	git -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256" config http.receivepack true
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'clone with http:// using protocol v1' '
@@ -269,6 +282,20 @@ test_expect_success 'clone with http:// using protocol v1' '
 	grep "git< version 1" log
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone with http:// using protocol v1 with empty SHA-256 repo' '
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 GIT_TRACE_CURL=1 git -c protocol.version=1 \
+		clone "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256" sha256 2>log &&
+
+	echo sha256 >expect &&
+	git -C sha256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+	# Client requested to use protocol v1
+	grep "Git-Protocol: version=1" log &&
+	# Server responded using protocol v1
+	grep "git< version 1" log
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'fetch with http:// using protocol v1' '
 	test_commit -C "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/http_parent" two &&
 
diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index 08633dc121..d7b31d0527 100644
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct upload_pack_data {
 	unsigned allow_ref_in_want : 1;				/* v2 only */
 	unsigned allow_sideband_all : 1;			/* v2 only */
 	unsigned advertise_sid : 1;
+	unsigned sent_capabilities : 1;
 };
 
 static void upload_pack_data_init(struct upload_pack_data *data)
@@ -1212,7 +1213,8 @@ static int send_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 	static const char *capabilities = "multi_ack thin-pack side-band"
 		" side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow deepen-since deepen-not"
 		" deepen-relative no-progress include-tag multi_ack_detailed";
-	const char *refname_nons = strip_namespace(refname);
+	const char *refname_nons = !strcmp(refname, "capabilities^{}") ?
+				   refname : strip_namespace(refname);
 	struct object_id peeled;
 	struct upload_pack_data *data = cb_data;
 
@@ -1240,6 +1242,7 @@ static int send_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 			     git_user_agent_sanitized());
 		strbuf_release(&symref_info);
 		strbuf_release(&session_id);
+		data->sent_capabilities = 1;
 	} else {
 		packet_fwrite_fmt(stdout, "%s %s\n", oid_to_hex(oid), refname_nons);
 	}
@@ -1379,6 +1382,8 @@ void upload_pack(const int advertise_refs, const int stateless_rpc,
 			data.no_done = 1;
 		head_ref_namespaced(send_ref, &data);
 		for_each_namespaced_ref(send_ref, &data);
+		if (!data.sent_capabilities)
+			send_ref("capabilities^{}", null_oid(), 0, &data);
 		/*
 		 * fflush stdout before calling advertise_shallow_grafts because send_ref
 		 * uses stdio.
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