A typical remote helper will return a `list` of refs containing a symbolic
ref HEAD, pointing to, e.g. refs/heads/master. In the case of a clone, all
the refs are being requested through `fetch` or `import`, including the
symbolic ref.
While this works properly, in some cases of a fetch, like `git fetch url`
or `git fetch origin HEAD`, or any fetch command involving a symbolic ref
without also fetching the corresponding ref it points to, the fetch command
fails with:
fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
error: <remote> did not send all necessary objects
(in the case the remote helper returned '?' values to the `list` command).
This is because there is only one ref given to fetch(), and it's not
further resolved to something at the end of fetch_with_import().
While this can be somehow handled in the remote helper itself, by adding
a refspec for the symbolic ref, and storing an explicit ref in a private
namespace, and then handling the `import` for that symbolic ref
specifically, very few existing remote helpers are actually doing that.
So, instead of requesting the exact list of wanted refs to remote helpers,
treat symbolic refs differently and request the ref they point to instead.
Then, resolve the symbolic refs values based on the pointed ref.
This assumes there is no more than one level of indirection (a symbolic
ref doesn't point to another symbolic ref).
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Found by check-non-portable-shell.pl
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
Finishing touches to fc/transport-helper-error-reporting topic.
* js/transport-helper-error-reporting-fix:
git-remote-testgit: build it to run under $SHELL_PATH
git-remote-testgit: further remove some bashisms
git-remote-testgit: avoid process substitution
Just like all the other shell scripts, replace the shebang line to
make sure it runs under the shell the user specified.
As this no longer depends on bashisms, t5801 does not have to say
bash must be available somewhere on the system.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
