upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1

With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the
server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names
an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out
of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the
branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by
transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated
cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability.

This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit,
for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole
repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g.
repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the
needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling
which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of
commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been
solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.)

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
index 8a5f236..ec22c98 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
@@ -1120,6 +1120,61 @@ test_expect_success 'fetch exact SHA1' '
 	)
 '
 
+for configallowtipsha1inwant in true false
+do
+	test_expect_success "shallow fetch reachable SHA1 (but not a ref), allowtipsha1inwant=$configallowtipsha1inwant" '
+		mk_empty testrepo &&
+		(
+			cd testrepo &&
+			git config uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant $configallowtipsha1inwant &&
+			git commit --allow-empty -m foo &&
+			git commit --allow-empty -m bar
+		) &&
+		SHA1=$(git --git-dir=testrepo/.git rev-parse HEAD^) &&
+		mk_empty shallow &&
+		(
+			cd shallow &&
+			test_must_fail git fetch --depth=1 ../testrepo/.git $SHA1 &&
+			git --git-dir=../testrepo/.git config uploadpack.allowreachablesha1inwant true &&
+			git fetch --depth=1 ../testrepo/.git $SHA1 &&
+			git cat-file commit $SHA1
+		)
+	'
+
+	test_expect_success "deny fetch unreachable SHA1, allowtipsha1inwant=$configallowtipsha1inwant" '
+		mk_empty testrepo &&
+		(
+			cd testrepo &&
+			git config uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant $configallowtipsha1inwant &&
+			git commit --allow-empty -m foo &&
+			git commit --allow-empty -m bar &&
+			git commit --allow-empty -m xyz
+		) &&
+		SHA1_1=$(git --git-dir=testrepo/.git rev-parse HEAD^^) &&
+		SHA1_2=$(git --git-dir=testrepo/.git rev-parse HEAD^) &&
+		SHA1_3=$(git --git-dir=testrepo/.git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+		(
+			cd testrepo &&
+			git reset --hard $SHA1_2 &&
+			git cat-file commit $SHA1_1 &&
+			git cat-file commit $SHA1_3
+		) &&
+		mk_empty shallow &&
+		(
+			cd shallow &&
+			test_must_fail git fetch ../testrepo/.git $SHA1_3 &&
+			test_must_fail git fetch ../testrepo/.git $SHA1_1 &&
+			git --git-dir=../testrepo/.git config uploadpack.allowreachablesha1inwant true &&
+			git fetch ../testrepo/.git $SHA1_1 &&
+			git cat-file commit $SHA1_1 &&
+			test_must_fail git cat-file commit $SHA1_2 &&
+			git fetch ../testrepo/.git $SHA1_2 &&
+			git cat-file commit $SHA1_2 &&
+			test_must_fail git fetch ../testrepo/.git $SHA1_3
+		)
+	'
+done
+
 test_expect_success 'fetch follows tags by default' '
 	mk_test testrepo heads/master &&
 	rm -fr src dst &&