This path series is a follow up from the "remote odb" patch series that I sent earlier this year, which were a follow up from previous series. See the links section for more information. The goal of this patch series is to make it possible to have and to fetch missing objects from multiple remotes instead of only one. For now the fetch order is the order of the remotes in the config. I selected the name "Promisor remote" over "Partial clone remote" because it is shorter and because it is not only about cloning. The existing extensions.partialclone is respected, but it is not written in the config when a partial clone or fetch is made. Instead remote.<name>.promisor is set to "true". This may create a compatibility issue, but it makes it possible to start using many promisor remotes by just cloning and fetching from different remotes with partial clone filters. The compatibility issue could be resolved in a future iteration by just setting extensions.partialclone instead of remote.<name>.promisor the first time a promisor remote is used. In general I have tried to change as few things as possible. Yeah, this is missing documentation for now. High level overview of this patch series ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Patch 1/8: This makes functions in fetch-object.c return an error code, which is necessary to later tell that they failed and try another promisor remote when there is more than one. This could also just be seen as a fix to these functions. - Patch 2/8: This introduces the minimum infrastructure for promisor remotes. - Patch 3/8, 4/8 and 5/8: This add a few missing bits in the promisor remote infrastructure that will be needed in the following patches. - Patch 6/8: This replaces the previous interface to use only one promisor remote defined in extensions.partialclone by the new interface created by the previous patches. - Patch 7/8: This replaces the way a partial clone filter was handled by a new way based on the previous patches that support more than one partial clone filter. - Patch 8/8: This adds a test case that shows that now more than one promisor remote can be used. Links ~~~~~ This new patch series is a follow up from the discussions related to the remote odb V4 patch series: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180802061505.2983-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Especially in: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD3nrhjANwNDqTwx5ZtnZNcnbAFqUN=u=LrvzuH4+3wQQA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ I said that I would like to work on things in the following order: 1) Teaching partial clone to attempt to fetch missing objects from multiple remotes instead of only one using the order in the config. 2) Simplifying the protocol for fetching missing objects so that it can be satisfied by a lighter weight object storage system than a full Git server. 3) Making it possible to explicitly define an order in which the remotes are accessed. 4) Making the criteria for what objects can be missing more aggressive, so that I can "git add" a large file and work with it using Git without even having a second copy of that object in my local object store. And this patch series is about the 1). This patch series on GitHub: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/many-promisor-remotes The previous remote odb patch series on GitHub: V5: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/remote-odb V4: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/remote-odb5 V3: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/remote-odb3 V2: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/remote-odb2 V1: https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/remote-odb1 Discussions related to previous versions of the odb patch series: V4: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180802061505.2983-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ V3: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180713174959.16748-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ V2: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180630083542.20347-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ V1: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180623121846.19750-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Christian Couder (8): fetch-object: make functions return an error code Add initial support for many promisor remotes promisor-remote: implement promisors_get_direct() promisor-remote: add promisor_remote_reinit() promisor-remote: use repository_format_partial_clone Use promisors_get_direct() and has_promisor_remote() promisor-remote: parse remote.*.partialclonefilter t0410: test fetching from many promisor remotes Makefile | 1 + builtin/cat-file.c | 5 +- builtin/fetch.c | 13 +-- builtin/gc.c | 3 +- builtin/repack.c | 3 +- cache-tree.c | 3 +- connected.c | 3 +- fetch-object.c | 13 +-- fetch-object.h | 4 +- list-objects-filter-options.c | 51 ++++++------ list-objects-filter-options.h | 3 +- packfile.c | 3 +- promisor-remote.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ promisor-remote.h | 22 +++++ sha1-file.c | 14 ++-- t/t0410-partial-clone.sh | 26 +++++- t/t5601-clone.sh | 3 +- t/t5616-partial-clone.sh | 4 +- unpack-trees.c | 6 +- 19 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) create mode 100644 promisor-remote.c create mode 100644 promisor-remote.h -- 2.20.0.rc2.14.g1379de12fa.dirty
