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Junio C Hamano
b2c851a8e6 Revert "Merge branch 'jc/graduate-remote-hg-bzr' (early part)"
Instead of showing a warning and working as before, fail and show
the message and force immediate upgrade from their upstream
repositories when these tools are run, per request from their
primary author.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-20 14:48:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
10e1feebb4 Revert "Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-sync-error-fix'"
This reverts commit d508e4a8e2,
reversing changes made to e42552135a.

The author of the original topic says he broke the upcoming 2.0
release with something that relates to "synchronization crash
regression" while refusing to give further specifics, so this would
unfortunately be the safest option for the upcoming release.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-19 17:09:57 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
3994e64d77 transport-helper: fix sync issue on crashes
When a remote helper crashes while pushing we should revert back to the
state before the push, however, it's possible that `git fast-export`
already finished its job, and therefore has exported the marks already.

This creates a synchronization problem because from that moment on
`git fast-{import,export}` will have marks that the remote helper is not
aware of and all further commands fail (if those marks are referenced).

The fix is to tell `git fast-export` to export to a temporary file, and
only after the remote helper has finishes successfully, move to the
final destination.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-14 14:03:33 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
852e54bc0f transport-helper: trivial cleanup
It's simpler to store the file names directly, and form the fast-export
arguments only when needed, and re-use the same strbuf with a format.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-14 14:03:33 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
0551a06c22 transport-helper: propagate recvline() error pushing
It's cleaner, and will allow us to do something sensible on errors
later.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-14 13:51:37 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
5931b33e20 remote-helpers: make recvline return an error
Instead of exiting directly, make it the duty of the caller to do so.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-14 13:48:33 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
4a1b59c85f transport-helper: remove barely used xchgline()
It's only used once, we can just call the two functions inside directly.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-14 13:48:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
90e6255a6d Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-fixes'
Updates transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export to allow the
ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the natively
supported transports.

* fc/transport-helper-fixes:
  remote-bzr: support the new 'force' option
  test-hg.sh: tests are now expected to pass
  transport-helper.c: do not overwrite forced bit
  transport-helper: check for 'forced update' message
  transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
  transport-helper: don't update refs in dry-run
  transport-helper: mismerge fix
2014-03-18 13:49:33 -07:00
Max Horn
cf31f70c08 transport-helper.c: do not overwrite forced bit
If the the transport helper says it was a forced update, then it is
a forced update.  It is however possible that an update is forced
without the transport-helper knowing about it, namely because some
higher up code had objections to the update and needed forcing in
order to let it through to the transport helper.  In other words, it
does not necessarily mean the update was *not* forced, when the
helper did not say "forced update".

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 09:04:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b4e2b7e6a Merge branch 'ef/mingw-write'
* ef/mingw-write:
  mingw: remove mingw_write
  prefer xwrite instead of write
2014-01-27 10:44:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92251b1b5b Merge branch 'nd/shallow-clone'
Fetching from a shallow-cloned repository used to be forbidden,
primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted
and we did not bother supporting such usage. This attempts to allow
object transfer out of a shallow-cloned repository in a controlled
way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository with truncated
history).

* nd/shallow-clone: (31 commits)
  t5537: fix incorrect expectation in test case 10
  shallow: remove unused code
  send-pack.c: mark a file-local function static
  git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
  prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects
  clone: use git protocol for cloning shallow repo locally
  send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone via http
  receive-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone via http
  smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
  remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well
  send-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone
  receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow
  connected.c: add new variant that runs with --shallow-file
  add GIT_SHALLOW_FILE to propagate --shallow-file to subprocesses
  receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone
  receive-pack: reorder some code in unpack()
  fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow
  upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots
  fetch: support fetching from a shallow repository
  clone: support remote shallow repository
  ...
2014-01-17 12:21:20 -08:00
Erik Faye-Lund
7edc02f4de prefer xwrite instead of write
Our xwrite wrapper already deals with a few potential hazards, and
are as such more robust. Prefer it instead of write to get the
robustness benefits everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-17 12:09:26 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
16094885ca smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:18 -08:00
Christian Couder
5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

    $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
      grep -v strbuf\\.c |
      xargs perl -pi -e '
        s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
        s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
        s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
        s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
      '

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
f9e3c6bebb transport-helper: check for 'forced update' message
So the remote-helpers can tell us when a forced push was needed.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 13:34:48 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
510fa6f518 transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
Otherwise they cannot know when to force the push or not (other than
hacks).

Tests-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Documentation-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 13:34:32 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
23cd01ec53 transport-helper: trivial style fix
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 13:47:22 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
5a75353fe3 transport-helper: don't update refs in dry-run
The remote helper namespace should not be updated.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 11:16:57 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
a21455ae66 transport-helper: mismerge fix
Commit 9c51558 (transport-helper: trivial code shuffle) moved these
lines above, but 99d9ec0 (Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-no-refspec')
had a wrong merge conflict and readded them.

Reported-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 11:16:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
100ce1c543 Merge branch 'mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix'
* mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix:
  git-remote-mediawiki: no need to update private ref in non-dumb push
  git-remote-mediawiki: use no-private-update capability on dumb push
  transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
  git-remote-mediawiki: add test and check Makefile targets
2013-09-12 14:41:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2233ad4534 Merge branch 'jc/push-cas'
Allow a safer "rewind of the remote tip" push than blind "--force",
by requiring that the overwritten remote ref to be unchanged since
the new history to replace it was prepared.

The machinery is more or less ready.  The "--force" option is again
the big red button to override any safety, thanks to J6t's sanity
(the original round allowed --lockref to defeat --force).

The logic to choose the default implemented here is fragile
(e.g. "git fetch" after seeing a failure will update the
remote-tracking branch and will make the next "push" pass,
defeating the safety pretty easily).  It is suitable only for the
simplest workflows, and it may hurt users more than it helps them.

* jc/push-cas:
  push: teach --force-with-lease to smart-http transport
  send-pack: fix parsing of --force-with-lease option
  t5540/5541: smart-http does not support "--force-with-lease"
  t5533: test "push --force-with-lease"
  push --force-with-lease: tie it all together
  push --force-with-lease: implement logic to populate old_sha1_expect[]
  remote.c: add command line option parser for "--force-with-lease"
  builtin/push.c: use OPT_BOOL, not OPT_BOOLEAN
  cache.h: move remote/connect API out of it
2013-09-09 14:30:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
711b276974 Merge branch 'nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut'
* nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut:
  smart http: use the same connectivity check on cloning
2013-09-09 14:30:01 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
597b831afb transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
Since 664059fb (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace,
2013-04-17), a 'push' operation on a remote helper updates the
private ref by default. This is often a good thing, but it can also
be desirable to disable this update to force the next 'pull' to
re-import the pushed revisions.

Allow remote-helpers to disable the automatic update by introducing a new
capability.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-03 11:57:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
05c1eb1034 push: teach --force-with-lease to smart-http transport
We have been passing enough information to enable the
compare-and-swap logic down to the transport layer, but the
transport helper was not passing it to smart-http transport.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-02 16:11:06 -07:00
Ondřej Bílka
98e023dea4 many small typofixes
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Reviewed-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-29 12:32:25 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9ba380481c smart http: use the same connectivity check on cloning
This is an extension of c6807a4 (clone: open a shortcut for
connectivity check - 2013-05-26) to reduce the cost of connectivity
check at clone time, this time with smart http protocol.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-23 12:18:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
631b5ef219 push --force-with-lease: tie it all together
This teaches the deepest part of the callchain for "git push" (and
"git send-pack") to enforce "the old value of the ref must be this,
otherwise fail this push" (aka "compare-and-swap" / "--lockref").

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22 22:33:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e9f1a6c189 Merge branch 'jk/gcc-function-attributes'
Use the function attributes extension to catch mistakes in use of
our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
(i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).

* jk/gcc-function-attributes:
  Add the LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL macro
  wt-status: use "format" function attribute for status_printf
  use "sentinel" function attribute for variadic lists
  add missing "format" function attributes
2013-07-22 11:23:59 -07:00
Jeff King
4621085b7e add missing "format" function attributes
For most of our functions that take printf-like formats, we
use gcc's __attribute__((format)) to get compiler warnings
when the functions are misused. Let's give a few more
functions the same protection.

In most cases, the annotations do not uncover any actual
bugs; the only code change needed is that we passed a size_t
to transfer_debug, which expected an int. Since we expect
the passed-in value to be a relatively small buffer size
(and cast a similar value to int directly below), we can
just cast away the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-09 22:23:04 -07:00
Jeff King
266f1fdfa9 transport-helper: be quiet on read errors from helpers
Prior to commit 81d340d4, we did not print any error message
if a remote transport helper died unexpectedly. If a helper
did not print any error message (e.g., because it crashed),
the user could be left confused. That commit tried to
rectify the situation by printing a note that the helper
exited unexpectedly.

However, this makes a much more common case worse: when a
helper does die with a useful message, we print the extra
"Reading from 'git-remote-foo failed" message. This can also
end up confusing users, as they may not even know what
remote helpers are (e.g., the fact that http support comes
through git-remote-https is purely an implementation detail
that most users do not know or care about).

Since we do not have a good way of knowing whether the
helper printed a useful error, and since the common failure
mode is for it to do so, let's default to remaining quiet.
Debuggers can dig further by setting GIT_TRANSPORT_HELPER_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-21 09:03:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
99d9ec0906 Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-no-refspec'
With "export" remote-helper protocol,

 (1) a push that tries to update a remote ref whose name is
     different from the pushing side does not work yet, and

 (2) the helper may not know how to do --dry-run

Detect such problematic cases and disable them for now.

* fc/transport-helper-no-refspec:
  transport-helper: check if the dry-run is supported
  transport-helper: barf when user tries old:new
2013-06-06 12:17:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
766f0f8ef7 Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-error-reporting'
Update transport helper to report errors and maintain ref hierarchy
used to keep track of remote helper state better.

* fc/transport-helper-error-reporting:
  transport-helper: fix remote helper namespace regression
  test: remote-helper: add missing and
  t5801: "VAR=VAL shell_func args" is forbidden
  transport-helper: update remote helper namespace
  transport-helper: trivial code shuffle
  transport-helper: warn when refspec is not used
  transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs
  transport-helper: update refspec documentation
  transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec
  transport-helper: improve push messages
  transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies
  transport-helper: report errors properly
2013-05-29 14:20:16 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
21457f5719 transport-helper: check if the dry-run is supported
Certain remote-helpers (the ones with 'export') would try to push
regardless.

Obviously this is not what the user wants.

Also, add a check for the 'dry-run' option, so remote-helpers can
implement it.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-21 09:54:05 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
67c9c782da transport-helper: barf when user tries old:new
Otherwise with certain remote helpers (the ones that support 'export'),
the users will be pushing to the wrong branch:

  git push topic:master

Will push the topic branch, as if the user typed:

  git push topic

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-21 09:53:59 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
126aac5cf3 transport-helper: fix remote helper namespace regression
Commit 664059f (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace)
updates the namespace when the push succeeds or not; we should do it
only when it succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-10 13:28:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b387c77b12 Sync with v1.8.2.3
* maint:
  Git 1.8.2.3
  t5004: avoid using tar for checking emptiness of archive
  t5004: ignore pax global header file
  mergetools/kdiff3: do not use --auto when diffing
  transport-helper: trivial style cleanup
2013-05-09 13:32:54 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
b120ef3eac transport-helper: trivial style cleanup
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-09 11:33:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2be2eb970c Merge branch 'fc/push-with-export-reporting-result'
* fc/push-with-export-reporting-result:
  transport-helper: improve push messages
2013-05-05 11:12:12 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
b056620f6f transport-helper: improve push messages
If there's already a remote-helper tracking ref, we can fetch the
SHA-1 to report proper push messages (as opposed to always reporting
[new branch]).

The remote-helper currently can specify the old SHA-1 to avoid this
problem, but there's no point in forcing all remote-helpers to be aware
of git commit ids; they should be able to be agnostic of them.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-05 11:10:53 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
664059fb62 transport-helper: update remote helper namespace
When pushing, the remote namespace is updated correctly
(e.g. refs/origin/master), but not the remote helper's
(e.g. refs/testgit/origin/master), which currently is only
updated while fetching.

Since the remote namespace is used to tell fast-export which commits
to avoid (because they were already imported/exported), it makes
sense to have them in sync so they don't get generated twice. If the
remote helper was implemented properly, they would be ignored, if
not, they probably would end up repeated.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
9c51558cfb transport-helper: trivial code shuffle
Just shuffle the die() part to make it more explicit, and cleanup the
code-style.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
a93b4a09ac transport-helper: warn when refspec is not used
For the modes that need it. In the future we should probably error out,
instead of providing half-assed support.

The reason we want to do this is because if it's not present, the remote
helper might be updating refs/heads/*, or refs/remotes/origin/*,
directly, and in the process fetch will get confused trying to update
refs that are already updated, or older than what they should be. We
shouldn't be messing with the rest of git.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
21610d820b transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs
This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all
the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing.

Let's at least tell the user what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
7a43c55415 transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec
The *:* refspec doesn't work, and never has, clarify the code and
documentation to reflect that. This in effect reverts commit 9e7673e
(gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour).

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
John Keeping
0d957a4df5 transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capability
This allows a remote helper using the 'export' protocol to specify that
it supports signed tags, changing the handing from 'warn-strip' to
'verbatim'.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 09:04:43 -07:00
John Keeping
b8bd826f3a transport-helper: pass --signed-tags=warn-strip to fast-export
Currently, attempting to push a signed tag to a remote helper which uses
fast-export results in the remote helper failing because the default
fast-export action for signed tags is "abort".  This is not helpful for
users because there is no way to pass additional arguments to
fast-export here, either from the remote helper or from the command
line.

In general, the signature will be invalidated by whatever transformation
a remote helper performs on a tag to push it to a repository in a
different format so the correct behaviour is to strip the tag.  Doing
this silently may surprise people, so use "warn-strip" to issue a
warning when a signed tag is encountered.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 09:03:16 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
41ccfdd9c9 Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 13:38:40 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
5034fdea30 transport-helper: improve push messages
If there's already a remote-helper tracking ref, we can fetch the SHA-1
to report proper push messages (as opposed to always reporting
[new branch]).

The remote-helper currently can specify the old SHA-1 to avoid this
problem, but there's no point in forcing all remote-helpers to be aware
of git commit ids; they should be able to be agnostic of them.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 09:04:39 -07:00
Jeff King
c096955c5b transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies
When we try to read from a remote-helper and get EOF or an
error, we print a message indicating that the helper died.
However, users may not know that a remote helper was in use
(e.g., when using git-over-http), or even what a remote
helper is.

Let's print the name of the helper (e.g., "git-remote-https");
this makes it more obvious what the program is for, and
provides a useful token for reporting bugs or searching for
more information (e.g., in manpages).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 09:00:54 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
81d340d40a transport-helper: report errors properly
If a push fails because the remote-helper died (with fast-export),
the user may not see any error message. We do correctly die with a
failed exit code, as we notice that the helper has died while
reading back the ref status from the helper. However, we don't print
any message. This is OK if the helper itself printed a useful error
message, but we cannot count on that; let's let the user know that
the helper failed.

In the long run, it may make more sense to propagate the error back
up to push, so that it can present the usual status table and give a
nicer message. But this is a much simpler fix that can help
immediately.

While we're adding tests, let's also confirm that the remote-helper
dying is also detected when importing refs. We currently do so
robustly when the helper uses the "done" feature (and that is what
we test).  We cannot do so reliably when the helper does not use the
"done" feature, but it is not even worth testing; the right solution
is for the helper to start using "done".

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 08:50:10 -07:00