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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone of empty repositories doesn't preserve hash
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:40:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZEmMUFR7AJn+v7jV@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230426105134.GA130148@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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On 2023-04-26 at 10:51:34, Jeff King wrote:
> We could send a capabilities^{} line, which Git has supported on the
> client side since eb398797cd (connect: advertized capability is not a
> ref, 2016-09-09). So sending it should not break even old clients
> (though we would have to check what alternate implementations like
> libgit2 or dulwich do; we know JGit supports it).

I have a patch which does exactly this, which I will be sending shortly.
I've confirmed that libgit2 and JGit support it, which is unsurprising,
since all of the implementations, Git included, share the same code.  In
addition, this is the behaviour we document as supporting, so all
implementations should support it.

> However, the object-format support here was broken until the very recent
> 13e67aa39b (v0 protocol: fix sha1/sha256 confusion for capabilities^{},
> 2023-04-14), so it would only be useful going forward (before then we'd
> die(), but maybe that is preferable to having the wrong object format?).

I think it's better to die than to silently have the wrong object
format, and it also prevents the problem if other clients using v0 or v1
(which effectively have to be supported for compatibility, while v2 is
optional) try to clone from a fixed server.

> I'm not sure it's worth the effort, though. If you want to use sha256
> everywhere and tell the other side about it, you need a modern client
> anyway, and that means the ability to speak v2. So this would only
> matter if for some reason the v2 probe was being ignored (e.g., proxies
> eating it, ssh refusing environment variable, etc), which itself are
> things that ideally would be fixed (and can maybe one day even go away
> if we optimistically default to v2).

Using v2 everywhere is difficult because many SSH servers still don't
pass GIT_PROTOCOL by default, meaning that we're stuck with v0 and v1.
In retrospect, sending an environment variable here was not a great
decision, but we're stuck with it now.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-26 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-05 10:28 git clone of empty repositories doesn't preserve hash Adam Majer
2023-04-05 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-05 19:47   ` Adam Majer
2023-04-05 20:01     ` Jeff King
2023-04-05 20:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-05 21:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-05 21:26           ` Jeff King
2023-04-05 22:48           ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-06 13:11           ` Adam Majer
2023-04-25 21:35           ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-25 22:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25 23:12             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26  0:20               ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-26 11:25                 ` Jeff King
2023-04-26 15:08                   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 15:13                     ` [PATCH] doc: GIT_DEFAULT_HASH is and will be ignored during "clone" Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 21:06                       ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-27  4:46                     ` git clone of empty repositories doesn't preserve hash Jeff King
2023-04-26 10:51               ` Jeff King
2023-04-26 15:42                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 20:40                 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2023-04-26 20:53                   ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix empty SHA-256 clones with v0 and v1 brian m. carlson
2023-04-26 20:53                     ` [PATCH 1/2] http: advertise capabilities when cloning empty repos brian m. carlson
2023-04-26 21:14                       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 21:28                         ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-27  5:00                           ` Jeff King
2023-04-27  5:30                       ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 20:40                         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 20:53                     ` [PATCH 2/2] Honor GIT_DEFAULT_HASH for empty clones without remote algo brian m. carlson
2023-04-26 21:18                       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 21:33                       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27  5:43                         ` Jeff King
2023-05-02 23:46                           ` Is GIT_DEFAULT_HASH flawed? Felipe Contreras
2023-05-03  9:03                             ` Adam Majer
2023-05-03 15:44                               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-03 17:21                                 ` Adam Majer
2023-05-08  0:34                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-03  9:09                             ` demerphq
2023-05-03 18:20                               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-03 22:54                             ` brian m. carlson
2023-05-08  2:00                               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-08 21:38                                 ` brian m. carlson
2023-05-09 10:32                                   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-09 16:47                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 21:12                     ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix empty SHA-256 clones with v0 and v1 Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27  4:56                   ` git clone of empty repositories doesn't preserve hash Jeff King
2023-05-01 17:00                   ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Fix empty SHA-256 clones with v0 and v1 brian m. carlson
2023-05-01 17:00                     ` [PATCH v2 1/1] upload-pack: advertise capabilities when cloning empty repos brian m. carlson
2023-05-01 22:40                       ` Jeff King
2023-05-01 22:51                         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-01 17:37                     ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Fix empty SHA-256 clones with v0 and v1 Junio C Hamano
2023-05-17 19:24                   ` [PATCH v3 " brian m. carlson
2023-05-17 19:24                     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] upload-pack: advertise capabilities when cloning empty repos brian m. carlson
2023-05-17 21:48                     ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Fix empty SHA-256 clones with v0 and v1 Junio C Hamano
2023-05-17 22:28                       ` brian m. carlson
2023-05-18 18:28                     ` Jeff King
2023-05-19 15:32                       ` brian m. carlson
2023-04-05 21:23         ` git clone of empty repositories doesn't preserve hash Jeff King

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