[PATCH 1/2] t5801: fix object-format handling in git-remote-testgit

Our fake remote helper tries to handle the object-format capability, courtesy of 3716d50dd5 (remote-testgit: adapt for object-format, 2020-06-19). But its parsing isn't quite right; it expects to receive "option object-format true", but the transport-helper code just sends "option object-format" with no value.

As a result, we never set the $object_format variable to "true". And worse, because $val is used unquoted, this confuses the shell's "test" command, which prints something like:

  .../git/t/t5801/git-remote-testgit: 150: test: =: unexpected operator

It all turns out to be harmless, though, because we never look at $object_format after that!

The Git-side behavior comes from 8b85ee4f47 (transport-helper: implement object-format extensions, 2020-05-25). It is a bit unlike other "option" variables, which always say "true" or "false". But in this case, there's not really any need to do so. As I understand it from that commit, the sequence is something like:

  1. the remote helper in its capabilities list says "object-format" to
     tell Git that it understands the object-format option.

  2. Git then tells the helper "option object-format" to tell it that it
     too understands object-formats.

  3. when the remote helper lists refs, it sends a special
     ":object-format" line that tells Git which object format it is
     using. But it presumably should only do this if we found out that
     the other side supports object-formats in step (2).

So let's improve our remote-testgit helper a bit:

  - when we see an object-format line, just set object_format=true;
    that's the only useful thing to take away from it

  - make sure that object_format is set before sending the special
    ":object-format" line. Since we're always testing against a version
    of Git recent enough to have sent us the object-format option, this
    is mostly a noop. But it confirms that the transport-helper code is
    correctly sending us the option (if we fail to send the line, then
    the test will fail when run with GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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The only other helper we ship that knows about object-format is
remote-curl. And there it _does_ expect "true" or an algorithm.
Curiously the "true" thing works because the remote-curl code silently
rewrites "option foo" to be the same as "option foo true". And even
though it understands receiving a specific algorithm, I'm not sure it
would do anything useful (whatever the caller says is generally
overwritten by the info/refs response).

So I dunno.

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 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)