upload-pack: advertise capabilities when cloning empty repos

When cloning an empty repository, protocol versions 0 and 1 currently
offer nothing but the header and flush packets for the /info/refs
endpoint. This means that no capabilities are provided, so the client
side doesn't know what capabilities are present.

However, this does pose a problem when working with SHA-256
repositories, since we use the capabilities to know the remote side's
object format (hash algorithm).  As of 8b214c2e9d ("clone: propagate
object-format when cloning from void", 2023-04-05), this has been fixed
for protocol v2, since there we always read the hash algorithm from the
remote.

Fortunately, the push version of the protocol already indicates a clue
for how to solve this.  When the /info/refs endpoint is accessed for a
push and the remote is empty, we include a dummy "capabilities^{}" ref
pointing to the all-zeros object ID.  The protocol documentation already
indicates this should _always_ be sent, even for fetches and clones, so
let's just do that, which means we'll properly announce the hash
algorithm as part of the capabilities.  This just works with the
existing code because we share the same ref code for fetches and clones,
and libgit2, JGit, and dulwich do as well.

There is one minor issue to fix, though.  If we called send_ref with
namespaces, we would return NULL with the capabilities entry, which
would cause a crash.  Instead, let's refactor out a function to print
just the ref itself without stripping the namespace and use it for our
special capabilities entry.

Add several sets of tests for HTTP as well as for local clones.  The
behavior can be slightly different for HTTP versus a local or SSH clone
because of the stateless-rpc functionality, so it's worth testing both.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
index 0908534..21b7767 100755
--- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
+++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
@@ -611,6 +611,33 @@ test_expect_success 'client falls back from v2 to v0 to match server' '
 	grep symref=HEAD:refs/heads/ trace
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'create empty http-accessible SHA-256 repository' '
+	mkdir "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256.git" &&
+	(cd "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sha256.git" &&
+	 git --bare init --object-format=sha256
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone empty SHA-256 repository with protocol v2' '
+	rm -fr sha256 &&
+	echo sha256 >expected &&
+	git -c protocol.version=2 clone "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" &&
+	git -C sha256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+	test_cmp actual expected &&
+	git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" >actual &&
+	test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone empty SHA-256 repository with protocol v0' '
+	rm -fr sha256 &&
+	echo sha256 >expected &&
+	GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git -c protocol.version=0 clone "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" &&
+	git -C sha256 rev-parse --show-object-format >actual &&
+	test_cmp actual expected &&
+	git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/smart/sha256.git" >actual &&
+	test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'passing hostname resolution information works' '
 	BOGUS_HOST=gitbogusexamplehost.invalid &&
 	BOGUS_HTTPD_URL=$HTTPD_PROTO://$BOGUS_HOST:$LIB_HTTPD_PORT &&