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2025-09-08promisor-remote: allow a server to advertise more fieldsChristian Couder1-16/+48
For now the "promisor-remote" protocol capability can only pass "name" and "url" information from a server to a client in the form "name=<remote_name>,url=<remote_url>". To allow clients to make more informed decisions about which promisor remotes they accept, let's make it possible to pass more information by introducing a new "promisor.sendFields" configuration variable. On the server side, information about a remote `foo` is stored in configuration variables named `remote.foo.<variable-name>`. To make it clearer and simpler, we use `field` and `field name` like this: * `field name` refers to the <variable-name> part of such a configuration variable, and * `field` refers to both the `field name` and the value of such a configuration variable. The "promisor.sendFields" configuration variable should contain a comma or space separated list of field names that will be looked up in the configuration of the remote on the server to find the values that will be passed to the client. Only a set of predefined field names are allowed. The only field names in this set are "partialCloneFilter" and "token". The "partialCloneFilter" field name specifies the filter definition used by the promisor remote, and the "token" field name can provide an authentication credential for accessing it. For example, if "promisor.sendFields" is set to "partialCloneFilter", and the server has the "remote.foo.partialCloneFilter" config variable set to a value, then that value will be passed in the "partialCloneFilter" field in the form "partialCloneFilter=<value>" after the "name" and "url" fields. A following commit will allow the client to use the information to decide if it accepts the remote or not. For now the client doesn't do anything with the additional information it receives. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-06doc: update references to renamed AsciiDoc filesJouke Witteveen1-2/+2
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6 (doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). References to the renamed files were not updated yet. Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-05Merge branch 'cc/lop-remote'Junio C Hamano1-0/+54
Large-object promisor protocol extension. * cc/lop-remote: doc: add technical design doc for large object promisors promisor-remote: check advertised name or URL Add 'promisor-remote' capability to protocol v2
2025-02-27Merge branch 'ua/os-version-capability'Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
The value of "uname -s" is by default sent over the wire as a part of the "version" capability. * ua/os-version-capability: agent: advertise OS name via agent capability t5701: add setup test to remove side-effect dependency version: extend get_uname_info() to hide system details version: refactor get_uname_info() version: refactor redact_non_printables() version: replace manual ASCII checks with isprint() for clarity
2025-02-18Add 'promisor-remote' capability to protocol v2Christian Couder1-0/+54
When a server S knows that some objects from a repository are available from a promisor remote X, S might want to suggest to a client C cloning or fetching the repo from S that C may use X directly instead of S for these objects. Note that this could happen both in the case S itself doesn't have the objects and borrows them from X, and in the case S has the objects but knows that X is better connected to the world (e.g., it is in a $LARGEINTERNETCOMPANY datacenter with petabit/s backbone connections) than S. Implementation of the latter case, which would require S to omit in its response the objects available on X, is left for future improvement though. Then C might or might not, want to get the objects from X. If S and C can agree on C using X directly, S can then omit objects that can be obtained from X when answering C's request. To allow S and C to agree and let each other know about C using X or not, let's introduce a new "promisor-remote" capability in the protocol v2, as well as a few new configuration variables: - "promisor.advertise" on the server side, and: - "promisor.acceptFromServer" on the client side. By default, or if "promisor.advertise" is set to 'false', a server S will not advertise the "promisor-remote" capability. If S doesn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability, then a client C replying to S shouldn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability either. If "promisor.advertise" is set to 'true', S will advertise its promisor remotes with a string like: promisor-remote=<pr-info>[;<pr-info>]... where each <pr-info> element contains information about a single promisor remote in the form: name=<pr-name>[,url=<pr-url>] where <pr-name> is the urlencoded name of a promisor remote and <pr-url> is the urlencoded URL of the promisor remote named <pr-name>. For now, the URL is passed in addition to the name. In the future, it might be possible to pass other information like a filter-spec that the client may use when cloning from S, or a token that the client may use when retrieving objects from X. It is C's responsibility to arrange how it can reach X though, so pieces of information that are usually outside Git's concern, like proxy configuration, must not be distributed over this protocol. It might also be possible in the future for "promisor.advertise" to have other values. For example a value like "onlyName" could prevent S from advertising URLs, which could help in case C should use a different URL for X than the URL S is using. (The URL S is using might be an internal one on the server side for example.) By default or if "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "None", C will not accept to use the promisor remotes that might have been advertised by S. In this case, C will not advertise any "promisor-remote" capability in its reply to S. If "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "All" and S advertised some promisor remotes, then on the contrary, C will accept to use all the promisor remotes that S advertised and C will reply with a string like: promisor-remote=<pr-name>[;<pr-name>]... where the <pr-name> elements are the urlencoded names of all the promisor remotes S advertised. In a following commit, other values for "promisor.acceptFromServer" will be implemented, so that C will be able to decide the promisor remotes it accepts depending on the name and URL it received from S. So even if that name and URL information is not used much right now, it will be needed soon. Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson1-0/+786
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc, meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting. It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files, since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new extension as well. Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>