One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git
clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch
"HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess. A new
capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this
information so that cloning from a repository with more than one
branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now
reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository.
* jc/upload-pack-send-symref:
t5570: Update for clone-progress-to-stderr branch
t5570: Update for symref capability
clone: test the new HEAD detection logic
connect: annotate refs with their symref information in get_remote_head()
connect.c: make parse_feature_value() static
upload-pack: send non-HEAD symbolic refs
upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as capability
upload-pack.c: do not pass confusing cb_data to mark_our_ref()
t5505: fix "set-head --auto with ambiguous HEAD" test
The definition of "struct ref" in "cache.h", a header file so
central to the system, always confused me. This structure is not
about the local ref used by sha1-name API to name local objects.
It is what refspecs are expanded into, after finding out what refs
the other side has, to define what refs are updated after object
transfer succeeds to what values. It belongs to "remote.h" together
with "struct refspec".
While we are at it, also move the types and functions related to the
Git transport connection to a new header file connect.h
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
