Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> In protocol v2, instead of just running "upload-pack", we have a generic
> "serve" loop which runs command requests from the client. What used to
> be "upload-pack" is now generally split into two operations: "ls-refs"
> and "fetch". The latter knows it must respect uploadpack.* config, but
> the former is not actually specific to a fetch operation (we do not yet
> do v2 receive-pack, but eventually we may, and ls-refs would support
> both operations).
>
> However, ls-refs does need to know which operation we're performing, in
> order to read the correct config (e.g., uploadpack.hiderefs versus
> receive.hiderefs; we don't read _either_ right now, but this is the
> first step to fixing that).
>
> In the generic "git-serve" program, we don't have that information. But
> in the protocol as it is actually used by clients, the client still asks
> to run "git-upload-pack", and then issues an "ls-refs" from there. So we
> _do_ know at that point that "uploadpack" is the right config context.
> This patch teaches the protocol v2 "serve" code to pass that context
> through to the individual commands (a future patch will teach ls-refs to
> actually use it).
Thanks for a clear description of ugly status quo X-<.
> diff --git a/ls-refs.h b/ls-refs.h
> index b62877e8da..da26fc9824 100644
> --- a/ls-refs.h
> +++ b/ls-refs.h
> @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
> struct repository;
> struct argv_array;
> struct packet_reader;
> -extern int ls_refs(struct repository *r, struct argv_array *keys,
> +extern int ls_refs(struct repository *r, const char *config_context,
> + struct argv_array *keys,
> struct packet_reader *request);
One thing I wonder is if we want to pass the whole *_opt thing,
instead of only one field out of it.
> #endif /* LS_REFS_H */
> diff --git a/serve.c b/serve.c
> index bda085f09c..70f89cf0d9 100644
> --- a/serve.c
> +++ b/serve.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct protocol_capability {
> * This field should be NULL for capabilities which are not commands.
> */
> int (*command)(struct repository *r,
> + const char *config_context,
Likewise here.
> struct argv_array *keys,
> struct packet_reader *request);
> };
Thanks.
